Table 5.2 Types of Inappropriate Internet Material or Experience
	Types of material or experience Characterization Inappropriate sexually explicit material With a few exceptions, such materials are generally delivered to a user for passive non-interactive viewing (e.g., through a Web site or via e-mail). Child pornography A category of speech unprotected by the First Amendment, involving material visually depicting minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct, including actual or simulated sexual intercourse, bestiality, masturbation, sadistic or masochistic abuse, or the lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of the minor. Obscenity A category of speech unprotected by the First Amendment, involving sexually explicit material that the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law, and lacks, when taken as a whole, serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. Material obscene with respect to minors A category of speech involving material that meets the legal test of obscenity as applied in the context of exposing minors to such material. Under the First Amendment, material in this category is protected for adults, though distribution to minors can be regulated. "Offensive" material A broad category of speech involving material that some party or another finds offensive to his or her sensibilities (e.g., so-called "indecent" material). If offensive material does not fall into one of the above categories, it is protected for both adults and minors under the First Amendment. Inappropriate interaction with others Interaction is by definition interactive--the user is an active participant in a dialog with another human being. Sexual solicitations from strangers Solicitations in the absence of physical meetings can be bothersome or frightening to young people. However, if such solicitations lead to face-to-face encounters with predators, the consequences can be catastrophic. Harassment (victim thereof) A young person can suffer as the victim of online harassment. Such harassment can take the form of threats, taunts, insults, or the public posting of disparagingly altered images (e.g., a composite of a head shot grafted onto a picture of an animal) and may be delivered anonymously or with an identity associated with it. Other inappropriate material A broad category, generally protected under the First Amendment, into which various parties have placed materials promoting hate and racism, violence (e.g., bomb making), religious cults, and so on.