Many am grotesque, graphic, and demeaning toward women. Interporn is viewed for sexual arousal. Library Interporn creates a dangerously hostile environment. Its presence denies women equal access to public facilities and opportunities. Title VII of the Civil Rights Art guarantees women freedom from workplace sexual harassment.
Sexual harassment includes situations where employers fail to eliminate hostile work conditions.
Hostile work conditions may exist when pornography is pervasively viewed in the library workplace. Under the Civil Rights Act, employers are liable for damages if they know, or should have known about hostile work conditions, yet failed to promptly rectify them. Libraries should realize that displaying Interporn will create a hostile work environment. Congress tried to control Interporn by making Internet providers like AOL, responsible for transmissions. The Supreme Court struck down part of the Act prohibiting the transmission of soft-core pornography.