NYC Library Attendance To Skyrocket With Report That Porn Surfing Is Protected

No need to have the “I’m researching a book” excuse at the tip of your tongue. The New York Public Library says yes, by all means, go ahead and use their public computers to check out porn. A desperate ploy to get porn-loving but computer-less New Yorkers to visit the library? More a First Amendment deal, the library tells the New York Post. “Customers can watch whatever they want on the computer,” said Brooklyn Public Library spokeswoman Malika Granville, describing the anything-goes philosophy that’s the rule at the city’s 200-plus branches.

How does a smut safe zone coincide with, say, storybook reading hour for kids? Not so well, say critics:

Library patron Daisy Nazario, 60, said she was grossed out when she discovered she was sitting next to an elderly porn watcher in the Brooklyn Central Library recently.

The looker was using library-provided extensions on the sides of his computer to block the view of his screen — which was featuring a threesome at the time — “but I could still hear the voices,” a disgusted Nazario said.
“It is very disrespectful to the children.”

The Post tried to talk to the “elderly porn watcher,” but he “skulked away.”

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