As a parent and computer columnist, I am more aware than most of the dangers inherent in the information age. As much as I relish the infinite possibilities of a "global village" and the profound new intimacies of our new cybersociety, I am deeply frightened. What kind of brave new world will our children grow up in?

Each day seems to bring alarming new stories of innocence lost on the "'net." Another predator has bewitched a chat-room faunlet into his clutches, with the promise of amusement park rides and illicit sodomy; another X-rated web site has been found linking schoolchildren to pro/am bondage galleries of the sort so popular in the early 90s. But without a doubt, no phenomenon is more terrifying, or more sickening, than the new breed of child pornography.

I speak not of the ravages of sexual predators, but of a more insidious, and in its way, more terrifying threat: slavering prurience produced for the consumption of bright-eyed prepubescents, without any supervision whatsoever.

Am I engaging in mere tabloid shock tactics? I wish that were the case. But lest my claims seem inflated, we have assembled evidence, easily found on any search engine, and accessible to any child who knows how to operate a computer.

(I must warn you that the material you are about to see, while characteristic, is shocking.)

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