Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aero-c!nadel From: falk@peregrine.eng.sun.com (Ed Falk) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: does healthy, mutual erotica exist? Message-ID: <12294@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 26 Apr 91 03:08:42 GMT References: <1991Apr15.170141.19828@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@eng.sun.com Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 22 Approved: nadel@aerospace.aero.org Status: R Originator: nadel@aerospace.aero.org In article <1991Apr15.170141.19828@watcgl.waterloo.edu> hrdoucet@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Heloise Doucet) writes: > >Why do men "seem" to prefer "porno" magazines and think that there is >nothing wrong with violence? Are they being controlling? Are they >insecure? Well *this* man doesn't think there's nothing wrong with violence. It really bugs me that there's so much violence and so little sex in the movies. And what sex there is tends to be either bound up with violence (rape scenes) or just totally gratuitous (random nudity scenes added to a violent movie to get the valuable 'R' rating.) (I worry that movies that don't get the 'R' rating for all their violence can get it easily for a single nude scene.) Something to think about: does it make a woman more uncomfortable to be asked out to a violent movie (Die Hard, for example) than to a sex movie (Henry and June, for example.) -ed falk, sun microsystems sun!falk, falk@sun.com In the future, somebody will quote Andy Warhol every 15 minutes.