Amazon.com sells pornography

Pamela has a point! And it is founded in capitalism. She is
informing amazon of her reasons for boycotting. That's as american as
it gets. She did not make violent threats if they did not comply to
her standards. She simply is choosing who gets her dollar!

Lol!! The idiot single person, who said that they spend far more
dollars than a parent with children, is absolutely delusional.
Parents spend far more of our consumer dollars than single people ever
do!! Raising children is incredibly expensive!! It is why so many
single people have not attempts to do so. They are too narcissistic
to spend that much on someone other than themselves.

Yes adware and spybot can help her have fewer offensive ads. And it
is impossible from her OP to know whether this was an amazon ad or if
it is a result of what's been viewed on her computer causing this
particular type of Trojan ad. That's the more pertinent thing she
needs to know.

If someone on your computer is opening porn sites or ads (and there
really are a ton!) then you will get flooded with porn ads. If
pamelas seeing a lot of porn ads, there is a high likelihood that
someone in your home has been clicking on these types of ads and
sites. Cyber content protect is one that's been really successful in
my home. Lol!!! However there is a joke site geared towards
elementary kids that it constantly flags: Giant in the playground
which is abbreviated: Giantitplayground. The "tit" in the web
address gets flagged constantly. Good luck securing your computer!

I think its ridiculous that things have to be censored for YOUR
children. I'm sick of PAYING money to get uncensored radio so YOUR
children won't hear bad words, you should be paying for the
censorship, not my fault you had children. Why shouldn't they show
consideration for people who aren't so conservative? And what is your
CHILD doing browsing the net unsupervised? If they were supervised I
don't see how that is a problem. Don't worry as a single person I
will spend more than enough money to make up for you not shopping
there. I hope you don't let your kids out of the house, they might
see something bad :0

Seeing as how it is illegal for people under eighteen (21 in some
areas) to view pornography, I have to agree with the OP here. It's
extremely inappropriate for something like that to come up in an
advertisement.

They have a feature in internet explorer you know called content
adviser enable it and then you wont have any problems jeez pay
attention!! go to tools internet options and click on the content tab
then click enable setup a password and set the levels of stuff U want
to see click ok and surf!

Jeebs!

If you don't like it change the channel or click.

What's really funny is that magazine must of really grabbed your
attention for you to take the time to read the description of it.

Just remember this.............

They're Queer
and
They're Here

o i forgot to say.. go to Ebay.. you'll prolly see even worse stuff
there! then you can complain to THEM about it!

Look, there is a document called the U.S. Constitution, it gives us
the freedom of "speech", you don't have to agree with the message or
the intent, but others have a right to voice their opinions or view,
in any manner they see fit. This is not a theocracy, it's a democracy.
I am sorry if you wer offended, but it seems crude to say that
persons who disagree with you want to expose kids to porn. and yes,
before you reply I do know that the constitution protects the freedom
of religion, hey you go to your church, and I'll go to mine.

LOL....again this is the internet.....surf WITH your kids, what do you
think they are looking at when you aren't watching them? Would
straight porn not have assaulted you? Just curious?

Um, so what? Who are you to judge? Maybe other people don't want to
be assaulted by the images of Barney and the Teletubbies when they're
browsing on Amazon.com but I've yet to hear one complain about that
kind of content.

I agree with PersephonesMommy, but, I know that Amazon does sell
pornography. and it is easy to acess.

But, I think you need to take a re-check on the internet. It's just as
easy for your children to click that link on Amazon as it is for them
to click on a link for hardcore pornography on any other website. Half
the flash game websites out there (That ALOT of young children
frequent) are littered with pornograpic ads and such.

Use a filter. It's not that hard.

What do you expect? It's the internet.

Please blame Amazon for sexually-related advertisements.

I'm very offended that the conservative customers show very little
respect for capitolism. This is America--not the USSR. To say that
because you don't want to buy it doesn't mean that
everyone doesn't want to. It sounds to me like you want America
to be a communist nation. Because in capitolism, when you don't like
something you don't buy it!!! But to say I DON'T LIKE THIS
PRODUCT, GET IT OUT OF MY SIGHT!! Is a compleatly ignorent thing to
say. You need to realize that America isn't a Christian nation--it's a
nation comprised of many many religions. And I already know what
you're going to say, so calm down. The laws and ideals of our country
aren't founded on Christian ideas. Those ideas are found in EVERY
religion. Yup... every single one. Name a religion that says killing
is ok and stealing is ok and rape is ok. What you're saying is that
conservative people are more important then non-conservative people.
That's redicilous.

Also, how did the pictures "assult" you? Did the pictures of the gay
people jump off the page and slap you? Did they punch you in the face?
Did it attack you because you're conservative? You do know that,
according to a 2003 Barna survey, 28% of Christians said that looking
at porn is ok--don't you? (I found this at crosswalk.com) And why is
it Amazon's job to keep your children from looking at those images?
You know you can put a filter on your internet that keeps them from
looking at it. If you have so little control of your children that
they would go to sights that you don't believe are morally acceptable
for your family--that's your problem and your fault.

Anyway, best of luck to you Comrad.

I used Amazon a lot and I do believe you about the pornography. Ebay
also allows pornography. I was going to purchase a dvd that was old
classic monsters and as I was looking and paging their site I clicked
on and to my surprise came this totally naked girl in an offensive
position. Grossed me out. I left Ebay without any purchases. I will
not visit Ebay anymore. YaK!

thanks for informing me that I can purchase my gay porn from
amazon.com

Actually I want to reply to the poster who said, "The original writer
was trying to protect kids from pornography, especially gay
pornography-- and that's fine." I assume the "protection" is in the
name of religion.

Why is that? I think it's more important to protect kids from
RELIGION. How many wars have started because of pornography? How many
people have beeen burned, innocents slaughtered, others tortured
because of pornography? I don't believe in censorship, but if I did,
I'd say do it to religion before you do it to sex. The former destroys
people. The latter makes new ones.

--Mykel B.

This is more then likely a piece of spyware that got intstalled on
your computer without you knowing and the spyware is the ones that
caused these ads to come up and not amazon.com
Try running adaware and spybot search and destroy and this should fix
the problem.
Also make sure you have a decent anti-virus and firewall on your
computer!

Amazon sells porn? Could you post a link for me? : )

read more at: The day Nestle turned thier back on me...

After having gone through and read each and every post on this thread
(phew, did that take a long time) I feel it is appropriate for me to
put in my 2 cents. The Bible, in my opinion, is an extremely vague
work. Every statement is open-ended in that it is left to
interpretation. It is amazing to me how 2 different people reading
the same words believe two different things that the statment is
trying to say.

If this book of God were so infalable, as Margaret would have you
believe, how is it that there can be so many different versions.
Either it happened this way or that.

Margaret, if I had ever considered an organized religion, you've done
a fantastic job of proving my reasons for not being involved and never
having a desire to be. I don't need a pastor/preacher/father or any
other man of cloth to tell me what I should and shouldn't do. I know
morals and I know right from wrong and that is what is important.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll put this in my "Who cares?" folder.

You better contact the FBI so they can arrest amazon.com

John 18
Persecutions Predicted
18"If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it
hated you. 19If you were of the world, the world would love [you as]
its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen
you out of it, the world hates you. 20Remember the word I spoke to
you: 'A slave is not greater than his master. ' If they persecuted
Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will
also keep yours. 21But they will do all these things to you on account
of My name, because they don't know the One who sent Me. 22If I had
not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin. Now they have
no excuse for their sin. 23The one who hates Me also hates My Father.
24If I had not done the works among them that no one else has done,
they would not have sin. Now they have seen and hated both Me and My
Father. 25But [this happened] so that the statement written in their
law might be fulfilled: They hated Me for no reason.


Same verses, from The Message version:
Hated by the World
18-19"If you find the godless world is hating you, remember it got its
start hating me. If you lived on the world's terms, the world would
love you as one of its own. But since I picked you to live on God's
terms and no longer on the world's terms, the world is going to hate
you.
20"When that happens, remember this: Servants don't get better
treatment than their masters. If they beat on me, they will certainly
beat on you. If they did what I told them, they will do what you tell
them.

21-25"They are going to do all these things to you because of the way
they treated me, because they don't know the One who sent me. If I
hadn't come and told them all this in plain language, it wouldn't be
so bad. As it is, they have no excuse. Hate me, hate my Fatherit's all
the same. If I hadn't done what I have done among them, works no one
has ever done, they wouldn't be to blame. But they saw the God-signs
and hated anyway, both me and my Father. Interestingthey have verified
the truth of their own Scriptures where it is written, 'They hated me
for no good reason.'


You can hate me, It was predicted and I'm fine with it, but I will
pray for all of you, I would like to see every one of you saved, so
please don't hate the message.

I invite you to click on my 'GuestsSuck!' name, and it will bring you
to my personal blogger. There I have written a few things that I would
like to see your viewpoint on. Honestly.

If anyone else is interested, click away. I'd like to see how others
respond to very valid points.

Thanks and hope to see you there!

I'm a bit confused by all these responses. On one hand people are
trying to protect their children from pornography in general, and
especially gay pornogrophy and that's fine....a very noble cause.
What gets me is these same people will go stand in line, plunk down 10
bucks per person for a ticket, stand in another line and pay 3 bucks
for a small popcorn each, another 2 bucks for a soda, another two
bucks for a box of stale jujubees or some other toxic sugar laden
chemical ridden concoction and sit for three hours to watch "THE
PASSION OF THE CHRIST" The most graphically violent, In Your Face vile
and pornographic in the truest sense of the word, frenzied gratuitous
blood lust-driven depiction of the most cruelest example of man's
inhumanity towards other men. Then pack everyone up in their minivans,
give the kids ridalin and sleep aids and psychotropic drugs. The
parents go to their room, lock the door and engage in matrimonially
sanctioned monkey sex, ignoring the bible and using condoms and ky
jelly and birth control.and blue pills if there's a problem with
hydrolics. It's not a sin if you do it. Go ahead, gossip, spread
rumors, judge others, deny others rights you embrace as God Given
because they don't look like you, love like you, worship like you,
conform like you do. So what exactly IS Pornographic?

Wow just because this has the word pornography in here it has over 300
responces in a fiv days.

Wow. Ok. I have read the letter, I have read the posts, and I have
an opinion (big surprise). I am going to try to put this as clearly
as I possibly can.

Margaret, if you want to convert people to your faith, you might try
coming across a tad less...well...crazy. I understand that faith and
logic are two different things, but surely they needn't be mutually
exclusive. One of my favorite things about your faith is that, as I
understand it, Jesus taught his followers to love and tolerate others.
As I recall, there was something very nice He said about not casting
stones unless you are without sin yourself. I admit, I am no
Christian, so I'm not sure of the subtext here, but I'm pretty sure
you guys don't think anyone is without sin, right? So no Christian
would ever presume to judge someone else, since only God can pass
judgement. Do I have that right? Feel free to correct me if I'm
wrong, but as I recall my days of college scripture classes (majored
in comparative religion for a few months there), I think I have the
gist of it.

As far as the letter itself is concerned, I went and looked at the ad
you spoke of, and while it is slightly suggestive, I personally see
nothing wrong with a picture of two men standing in a non-erotic pose,
with all of their "bits" covered. If you feel that is a bit risque
for your children, by all means be a parent and don't let them surf
the internet alone.

If your problem is simply the nudity, that's one thing. Not that a
healthy well-adjusted person should have any huge hang-ups about the
human body, but if you do, ok. To paraphrase Larry Flynt, if you have
a problem with the human body, take it up with the manufacturer.

If your problem is the homosexuality, I cordially invite you to lock
up the bomb shelter, because those people aren't going anywhere. I
suppose I am addressing both you and Margaret when I say that as far
as I can see, if homosexuality wasn't a part of the gods'/God's/the
Great Pumpkin's/whatever's plan, surely there wouldn't be so
gosh-darned many of them.

For the record, I don't hate Christians. I hate people that hide
behind a religion that should be preaching love, in order to advance
an agenda of hatred.

I can see that Ms. Margaret is obviously less concerned about the
content of Amazon.com, and far more concerned about the spiritual
practices of the PFB members. Witness the Bible-thumper way in which
she discredits every opinion that differs from her own. I guess we're
all going to that toasty place down below, huh?

Hey, I'm a very spiritual person without having to call myself
"Christian". That said, I have the utmost respect for any and all
religions - each one has its own idiosyncrasies, and who are we to say
which one is "better" or "right"?

And more importantly: since when does religion take center stage on
PFB? Margaret, no offense, I respect you for being so deeply devoted
to your religion and all, but this is not the place for you to play
preacher.

A comprehensive list of "absurdities" in the Bible:

http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/abs/long.htm


Here is also a good site, it was written by an ex-fundamentalist
minister turned atheist:

http://www.ministerturnsatheist.org/




Prove them wrong, Margaret.

So...Margaret Funk is the letter writer, and has changed her name from
Margaret White, mother of Carrie White, because although Margaret
White is a fictional character, Margaret Funk realizes that Margaret
White is a very scary person.

Am I getting close?

Ok, I know that all of us are going to have different banners, but, my
banner to this letter (on the bottom left hand side of the screen) was
for Gay jewelry.

How cool is that?

Good thing my future children aren't sitting here looking at the
rainbow clad rings. Oh wait, I have like 100000 eggs - do they count
as like half children?

They have this book, a scripture if you will, and these people pour
over ever lit bit of minutia in this book. They take this
(mis)information and twist it and bend it and make it say exactly what
they need it to say.

Not all are equal in the eyes of their Lord and they never will be.
The wicked society, especially the west, has decayed into a vast
wasteland of decadence, and the only way to salvation is through their
Lord. Tolerance of any other Lord is forbidden. The world shall be
theirs in the coming doom.

Justice from the barrel of a rifle or the fuse of a bomb. For if it
is the Lord's work, then it is a good thing.

If it is not praise for their Lord then it is surely blasphemous and a
rage will ensue.

Governments exist soley to enforce the will of their God, regardless
of which God you may worship.

They chastise others within their group that do not hold the same
views. Luckily for all of us, the zealots represents a small
percentage compared to the more passionate true believers. The true
believers get a black eye from the overly enthused, but they
nonetheless suffer from the zealots.

Some of these people call themselves Christians, some of these people
fly airplanes into buildings.

What would your children be doing buying things off amazon.com without
you presence? Instead of wasting your time typing up a ridiculous
complaint, perhaps you should get off your computer chair and PARENT
your kids.

And the fact that Amazone sells vibrators and various other sexual
toys doesn't bother you? Come on. Grow up and deal with the fact
that people are sexual creatures, no matter how they like it (bi, gay,
lesbian, straight). If you don't care for it for YOUR OWN children,
buy a program that you can block amazon.com with. Then you don't have
to worry about your innocent sweeties seeing the real world.

Sorcha

"I wish I'd never been broiled?" - as in the BK commercial? : )

I LOVE that commercial!

Once again, I walked away for a couple of hours, and look what I
missed!

I have a lot of catching up to do.

So are you more upset that it was a gay magazine or that it was porn
in general. I wonder if you would be as upset if it was a Playgirl,
Hustler or Playboy magazine that you saw.

Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight
gonna grab some afternoon delight.
My motto's always been; when it's right, it's right.
Why wait until the middle of a cold dark night.
When everything's a little clearer in the light of day.
And you know the night is always gonna be there any way.

Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight.

Thinkin' of you's workin' up my appetite
looking forward to a little afternoon delight.
Rubbin' sticks and stones together makes the sparks ingite
and the thought of rubbin' you is getting so exciting.

Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight.

Started out this morning feeling so polite
I always though a fish could not be caught who wouldn't bite
But you've got some bait a waitin' and I think I might try nibbling
a little afternoon delight.

Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight.

Please be waiting for me baby when I come around.
We could make a lot of lovin' 'for the sun goes down.

Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight.

Repeat chorus.



I can't imagine anything more lewd and full of inneuendo...what about
the children?!?!

Wow, what a lot of replies by teenagers who don't want anyone to take
away their ability to look at things at which they shouldn't be
looking! I certainly hope those are teenagers, because if they're
parents, they're incompetent ones. If they're not parents, they have
no right to comment either way, since their views will change once
they have children. Ah, they're so cute before they actually have kids
and start thinking about the future and society and their
responsibilities to both
I'll be more careful about shopping at amazon, and I spend about
$10,000 a year there! (Lots of it on "offensive" evnagelical
materiials.)