What is it with Spam These Days?

I thought the Reagan coins (always with Spam sent by "Barry Goldwater") were tasteless, that the drug ads were dangerous, and that the "make money fast even if you're slow" just wasted bandwidth, but the latest round of popular ads seems to be "rape" centered.

For the last two weeks, my 11 mail addresses have gotten somewhere around 900 with some form of "rape" in the subject. Several seem to have animated images embedded with them. And, as you might imagine, as a woman and a pacifist, rape isn't one of my favorite topics, just as no form of violence would be.

But somebody's got to be buying, right, for all this crap to be sent out? That part is a bit hard to imagine.

I'm not even a prude. Porn, while it's rarely well done or inventive or even appealing, doesn't shock me. I just don't like it. But I don't have problems with others - as in adults - possessing it. [Is porn demeaning to women? Well, I think it's kind of demeaning to everyone. But so is Bush's treatment of women's rights and Fox News' portrayal of America. Both of them continue regardless, so why shouldn't porn? War is pretty obscene, too. Can we stop that?]

This stuff, however, comes unsolicited, and I would imagine it reaches the mailboxes of lots of children. Hopefully, they use some kind of filter (although I use a filter too, and some did get by while most were trapped in my crap folder.