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Your 'intimate personal massager' – cough – is spying on you

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"Typical, as soon as you're too old and/or too repressed you tried to stop everyone else having fun."

You missed the other category - they didn't want other people having the same fun as they did. The "moral panic" over pr0n really got going in the UK when it started to be available to the lower classes through photographs and public art galleries. It was no longer the preserve of the upper classes who had previously controlled access to it.

It was the same thinking espoused by Mary Whitehouse and Lord Longford. Their moral superiority meant they were not affected by what they read or saw in their investigations. However they believed that anyone else would be instantly corrupted by it.

The same paradox exists still in the internet. People are employed to search for illegal pr0n. The more successful they are at finding a pr0n slant in innocuous things - the more successful their careers in that role. It doesn't seem to occur to them that the cesspit perception is only in their own minds.

The Church was influenced by St Augustine's proscriptions - yet he is famous for the quote when younger - "Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet."

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