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From: jeffb.bbs@shark.cs.fau.EDU (Jeffrey Boser)
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Subject: Re: Male perspective on gender issues
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Date: 7 May 91 17:55:49 GMT
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falcao@felix.metaphor.com (Ronnie Falcao) writes:
> The attempt to maintain that social fiction exacts an enormous
> human cost:  rape, homophobia, sexual objectification, pornography,
> battery, men's control of women's reproduction, war.

How did pornography get in there?  I wonder about war too.  To hazard
a guess, I would think Bush was not thinking about his penis when he
attacked Iraq.

The others sound mildly reasonable, but porn?  I would like just once
to see proof that pornography is the cause or result of a defective
sexual value system.  just once.  Every decent phsyc has shown that
explicit sexual images does not alter our behavior.  Violent porn
does, but so does anything violent.

Stoltenberg sounds like a standard bible-thumper with the sympathy and
insight of the ten commandments.  It is true that there are problems
with societies picture of sexual conduct, but to mature you do not
spank, you guide.  To mature the world, you first must mature
yourself, then find others who think like you and be fruitful and
multiply.  You dont fight an ideal by getting angry, you get everybody
think think it is stupid and ignore it.


.....jeff
jeffb.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu
"Make something an idiot can use, and only an idiot will use it" -RAH
  Like a Bible, maybe?