Ok, ok, ok. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. If you don’t enjoy it, back click. Got it! Got it! Got it!

Now getting back to the original question, how dark is too dark? Is there such a thing? Should certain topics be off limits? Not necessarily this one, anything? Should some things be taboo even when they're ficticious?

Recently I read about the downfall of internet porn king, Tom Reedy, whose main defence was – the photographs posted, which shocked and distressed hardened Dallas police, were computer generated - no children were harmed. Forgetting the example of Lex’s story, if it’s not really ‘real’, how much more acceptable is it? Should, for example, paedophilias be allowed to view computer generated kiddy porn?

Personally, I just don’t feel comfortable with this kind of appetite is being fed. Why? I think it’s like eating carob, it tastes ok for a while, but then you really have to have some chocolate.

Oh, please, before anyone jumps in and says ‘Oh but reading a murder mystery doesn’t make you want to go out and shoot some one!” Well, that’s true, but almost everyone has the urge to have sex with someone, some time, while very few get the urge to kill another - anytime.

Oh yes, that reminds me, has anyone here read Mike Agostini’s “Death the Ultimate Orgasm’? I read a brief overview of it the other day, and I’m now tracking down a copy.

Alex.