The story "Candy Man" goes on for several pages, getting progressively filthier and more squalid as it works to the end. By the story's conclusion, Cindy has consumed more candy in more sickly imaginative ways than would be healthy for any child.

Who knows how many children are reading such material at this very moment, fetishizing snack treats in ways bound to stunt their growth? But much worse is out there than mere ASCII smut like the above. Elsewhere on the Kidporn site, members will find jpg images of panelled rooms stuffed to the ceilings with Beanie Babies, streaming video featuring cascades of jelly beans, a CU-See-Me room in which a model (apparently an illegal Asian immigrant child, possibly sold into kidvid industry bondage) can be directed to eat Stuckey's Nut Rolls on screen.

Even now, the child porn industry is growing, and predictably, has targeted pubescents, taking advantage of the sexual awakening of the young to titillate them with suggestive story titles. Among the many I found on alt.sex.children.pubescents.stories were an entire cache based on the Children's Television Workshop's beloved "Sesame Street" characters. They included:

The Nookie Monster
Ernie and Bert and Carol and Alice
Inside Oscar's Can
The Agonized Tickling of E.
Big Bird's Big Bird

In the coming millenium, cybercitzens of the new world need to be somehow innoculated from such trash. I sometimes look at my son Brent, 7, and wonder what sort of man he will grow up to be. Will he be a happy, healthy, electronically literate man, or an onanistic cyborg, his bionic tentacles flailing away at his own pleasure circuits?

For the sake of the future, we must find a way to protect our kids from child pornography. No one is exempt. Their future and ours depends on it.