Pornography is so prevalent today and with the Internet, accessible to everyone. The average age of children exposed to Internet porn is 11 years old, the largest consumer group for Internet pornography is 12-17 year olds, 90% of 8-16 year olds have viewed porn online mostly accidentally while doing their homework online.

While we can install Net Nanny at home, who knows what sites children can visit while at school, at their friend's house, or in public libraries. We need to enlist the help of adult site webmasters to make the Internet safer for our children. Install password protection for their sites.

This is an open letter to all adult site webmasters from the mother of a young boy.

Dear webmasters,

We understand that selling porn is your business and we respect your right to make a legal living. But please understand our legitimate concerns and work with us.

You already have the “warning adult content” on your websites. Yet kids, who are not legal customers of your product, may simply ignore the warning.

So to prevent them from having direct access to explicit images, texts and sounds, the simplest way is to have a password-protected login. No more "free tours" before a visitor supplies basic information.

Please let our children have a chance to be children. And thank you for understanding our need to protect them.

For more information, visit Blogger Power: Safeguard the Web for Children.

(Source: The Thinking Blog)

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