“A nine-year-old girl was sent ‘disgusting’ text messages offering her work as a sex escort. Roy Taylor, 62, from Weston-super-Mare, said his daughter Sharon had received the series of messages on her mobile phone in the past few weeks. One of them read: ‘Free sex and get paid 4 it. Men and females needed to escort high class individuals and earn top money.’ Mr Taylor said: ‘God knows how they got her number — I am gobsmacked.’ He said Sharon was too young to understand what the messages meant and had now deleted them from her phone. ‘To send messages like that to a girl is absolutely disgusting,’ he added. Mr Taylor, who bought the brand new phone in February, has demanded an investigation by its maker Vodafone. A spokeswoman for Vodafone said the number may have been illegally sold to the company sending the texts. She said: ‘It appears that someone sold a fake list of numbers of people who wished to subscribe to this adult service. Sharon Taylor’s number was on it.” —BBC (UK)

Gobsmacked? Gobsmacked — what a word! Are there really people who speak like that? It’s almost worth having this young girl’s phone violated in order to have her father remind the world of that wonderful word. It means “hand clapped over mouth,” as in astonishment. Somebody has to write a limerick combining gobsmacked, flabbergasted, and bitch-slapped.

Anyway, welcome to another new form of spam. It’s yet one more example of the Creeping Smut axiom: wherever there is communication technology, there is dirty talk. Just recently PervScan noticed an article indicating that children are receiving their own mobile phones at younger and younger ages, and if you combine that with the Creeping Smut axiom, then it goes without saying that younger and younger children are going to be exposed to random bits of licentious information. There’s not much you can really do about it. However much you ban porn or spam, however much you censor the airwaves, you can’t prevent every last little message from falling on tender ears. So what should you do? Teach the tender ears not to pay heed to this sort of message? Is it even possible to teach them that?

In this respect, the parents in this story are very fortunate that their nine-year-old daughter didn’t understand what the message was about. You can well imagine certain other nine-year-olds understanding only too well…

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