(With apologies to Louise Erdrich, a great writer and an old acquaintance of one of us.)

We're not going to speak of our love lives here, but hey, let's be realistic. Many people can use some help from time to time, and the net is one place to find that help. Unless, of course, that place is:

-- Aphrodisiacs - enhanced sex and naturesex, a site which talks about and sells aphrodisiacs, has a little nudity, but does not contain any explicit material. In fact, it's right there on the homepage: "These pages do NOT contain sexually explicit material." Obviously, X-Stop can't read.

-- The Virtual MeetMarket, personals with a personal touch.

-- About Girls^tm is an interesting idea: taped interviews with young women, being asked questions about dating, sex, and life in general, available on CD-ROM. Presumably the market is young men interested in the opposite sex - but not in pornography, because there's no nudity anywhere on the site and apparently not on the CD-ROMs.

-- SexyCards Online, for sending "erotic cards" to a friend. Actually they're "form-letter" style webpages with your choice of graphic. The graphics would be rated PG-13.

-- Exotic Personals, another "personals" service. (One page has adult links, but hey, why ban a single page when you can ban the whole site?)

-- Cupid's Network, a network for single men and women.

-- Fashion World International, which sells corsets, lingerie and other erotic attire. Of course there's no nudity anywhere on the site.

-- GreatSex.com - Clinical & Educational Sexual Wisdom, which sells books and videotapes on how to improve one's relationships. No nudity anywhere on the site.

Remember, each of these sites has been blocked according to the criteria: "gross pornography, bestiality, child pornography, or hard-core pornography."

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