Seattle libraries: No sleeping or eating allowed, but porn-watching OK
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The Seattle Buyers Library has a long list of rules of things you can't do in the library, to certain "comfort and safety" of staff and patrons. You can't eat, sleep, look like you're sleeping, be barefoot, be too stinky or talk too loudly.
But you can clock graphic porn on a public computer in front of kids. Despite repeated complaints from female patrons about men watching porn in full survey of their children, the library has held fast to its policy of unfettered online access for grown-ups.
The object: It's not in the business of censorship.
The latest dust-up comes after a mother with her two kids saw a man watching "unsympathetic-core porn" at the Lake City library and complained. When the librarian refused to ask the man move to a less discoverable screen, Julie Howe wrote the library, the media and lawyers and got on KUOW.
"It was very mind-boggling," said Howe, whose 10-year-old girl had seen the man's sift and cried that night. But, she acknowledged, "it's not an easy one to solve.
Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer