It doesn't make sense...

People just don't expect to have access to hard-core pornography in public libraries.

There's just so much about this that doesn't make sense. Let's take another look at the Chicago City Ordinances and ponder...

According to City Ordinance 8-8-080:
It's not okay for someone to show their own genitals in public. No - they would get arrested, or at the very least, fined. Even if it's only being shown - not necessarily even used in a lewd act.
Why is our public library leadership convinced that that any 'adult' person can show other people's genitals at a public library computer - or it's censorship?

8-8-080 Indecent exposure or dress.

Any person who shall appear, bathe, sunbathe, walk or be in any public park, playground, beach or the waters adjacent thereto, or any school facility and the area adjacent thereto, or any municipal building and the areas adjacent thereto, or any public way within the City of Chicago in such a manner that the genitals, vulva, pubis, pubic hair, buttocks, perineum, anus, anal region, or pubic hair region of any person, or any portion of the breast at or below the upper edge of the areola thereof of any female person, is exposed to public view or is not covered by an opaque covering, shall be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $500.00 for each offense.

(Prior code § 192-8; Amend Coun. J. 12-4-02, p. 99931, § 5.4)

According to City Ordinance 8-8-030:
Prostitution in Chicago is illegal - most of chapter 8 is all about prostitution (with the exception of some train tickets and tampering with phone booths). Why can our public libraries aid open acts of prostitution by protecting hard-core pornography use? After all, the 'actors' and 'actresses' are prostituting themselves by exchanging sex for money. Why does it magically become a "Right" when you openly watch a video or image of other people prostituting themselves? And why is it a "Right" to watch it where everyone else has to see it too?

8-8-030 Prostitution or lewdness in conveyances.

No person shall knowingly receive any person for purposes of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution into or upon any vehicle or other conveyance or permit any person to remain for any of the said purposes in or upon any such vehicle or other conveyance.

Any person that shall violate the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $400.00 for each offense.

(Prior code § 192-3; Amend Coun. J. 9-4-02, p. 92888, § 1)

8-8-010 House of ill-fame or assignation.

Every house of ill-fame or house of assignation where men and women resort for the purpose of fornication, prostitution, or lewdness is hereby declared to be a nuisance.

No person shall keep or maintain a house of ill- fame or assignation, or a place for the practice of fornication, prostitution, or lewdness. Each 24 hours that such house or place shall be kept or maintained for such purpose shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.

No person shall patronize, frequent, be found in, or be an inmate of any such house or place used for any of the purposes set forth in this section.

No person shall lease to another any house, room, or other premises, in whole or in part, for any of the uses or purposes set forth in this section or knowingly permit the same to be used or occupied for such purposes.

(Prior code § 192-1)