pp. xiv [3] 402.paperback edition.”From Huckleberry Finn to Harry Potter, Internet filters to the V-chip, censorship is often based on the assumption that children and adolescents must be protected from “indecent” information that might harm their development — whether in art, in literature, or on a Web site. But where does this assumption come from, and is it true? In Not in Front of the Children, a pathbreaking history of “indecency” laws and other restrictions aimed at protecting youth, Marjorie Heins suggests that the “harm-to-minors” argument rests on shaky foundations.”