Honest Question

[Doc]

As a professional in the library field I call shenanigans Doc. You allege you've come across these altered photographs and claim they were comitted by librarians looking to protect the children. No other way they could have gotten there? Certainly no one from the public is able to lay fingers on these sacred magazines at any time right?

Of course it makes more sense as a librarian to spend a couple of hours altering a photograph to make it "acceptable to western standards" than doing the unthinkable and ultimately more cost effective solution like not carrying a magazine deemed inappropriate for the collection.  :rolleyes:
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Call it whatever you like. Things are different here. Backwards. Things like National Geographic and Harry Potter are clearly "of the devil." There is stuff going on right now to have Mr. Potter removed from the library, or at least removed from the children's section and moved to the "adult by request only" section where they keep books about dangerous subjects like witchcraft and any other faith other than Christianity. The state where I live has just outlawed evolution and has accepted ID. A phone call from a friend informs me that all of the books about evolution are going to be removed from the library soon, and replaced with books that preach the virtues of ID.

The Christian Exodus movement is alive and well in SC. They are in power now. Moving people here to establish a higher voter base so that they can have the power to turn SC in to some sort of Christian Utopia. They hope to get enough people living here that they can cast some sort of vote to secede from the US. (Which can happen where I live. We have the reserved right to become an independant commonwealth)

I don't expect you to understand that things are different here. But they are. It's quiet and sleepy and for the most part, the world turns a blind eye in this direction. Hell, even the people who live here, most of them keep their heads firmly in the sand. Like when the law changed about movie theatres... Any theatre showing R rated movies became an "adult business" over night. We went from having twenty something movie theatres, including several dollar theatres, to having, hrm, what is it, four or five now? And no dollar theatres. As "adult businesses" most of them were to close to schools or other "respectable and responsible" businesses, and they got closed down for all kinds of violations. Because R rated movies show boobies and such, a bunch of people made it their business to make sure that they were treated the same way as strip clubs. The one theatre that tried to keep it's head above water trying to show only family friendly fare closed within a year.

A book, a magazine, film, stuff you learn from, it is a very dangerous thing. They give people ideas. And there are people here that do their best to protect you from these dangerous liberating bits of media.