Fortunato - are your children still quite young? By saying that the information reaches them in the playground, I mean that often it is their peer group that are adding to the problem. I can remember certain "banned books" circulating amongst the pupils in my school (some risque, some as mild as Judy Blume's "Forever" which many school libraries refused to stock). I know things seem worse today, and in many ways this is due to the Internet. Pornography is one of the driving forces behind the development of new technologies on the Internet (I am not necessarily condoning this, it's just a comment) - the purveyors of adult sites invest huge amounts of money to find the best ways of displaying and dispensing their products. Where children are involved, the areas of censorship are hazier. I deplore the actions of people who wish to censor anything for an adult audience. While I am not anti-pornography I can totally understand your worries about childrens' access to it. I just notice that often children know more about such things than we care to believe. By the time they reach their teenage years they are exposed to many disturbing things, yes, and I take your point that in ideal circumstances they shouldn't be, but real life has many disturbing aspects to it, and we cannot censor what actually goes on the world. It is getting the balance between overexposure and overprotection that is so difficult.