by Marilyn C. Mazur and Joan E. Bertin

About the authors: Marilyn C. Mazur is an attorney for the National Coalition Against Censorship. Joan E. Bertin is the executive director of the NCAC.

We are working up a fever making new laws against touching, and we're more scandalized by a photograph or painting showing a nipple or a penis than by the image of a starving child on a dry, dusty road.

Thomas Moore, Mother Jones, September/October 1997

It's Sodom and Gomorrah all over again.

Dr. Robert L. Simonds, Citizens for Excellence in Education

Are Jock Sturges' photographs of nude children on the beach child pornography? Does learning about sex or reading about homosexuality cause young people to experiment with sex in ways they otherwise wouldn't? Should children be shielded from nudity in art and sex on the Internet...