"Rare moments from the groovy days not suitable for all eyes." The ad teases me to open it. These days, one can barely use the Internet without facing such temptations. Our day -- perhaps like no day in history -- faces such allurements.
Back in the day, you had your books, and you had your newspaper. Nothing needed to come before your eyes that you didn't want. When TVs and movies came along there began to be some slippage. You'd go to the movies, and an alluring-looking movie would be there and you might decide to click on it, so to speak. Or, even if you didn't choose a lurid movie, you might be watching along and suddenly a scene came up you didn't anticipate, and there it was, unavoidable.
Today? Billboard ads with skimpily dressed women are reasonably common. You are driving along, and, bang!, there it is, front and center, no way to avoid it.
Little by little, it has gotten worse and worse. First came TV and movies and billboards, we now we have arrived in the years of the Internet. Smut has its day. Pornography is but a click away.
Temptation has never had such presence.
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