From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!mhuxa!houxm!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!pollack
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Re: Re: Not A Love Story - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.2001
Posted: Fri Apr 29 22:51:10 1983
Received: Mon May  2 06:36:07 1983

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uicsl!pollack    Apr 29 10:30:00 1983


If you actually saw "Not a Love Story" you would know that the people
who made it were not proposing to make porn illegal, but were only
pointing out the connection between pornography and violence against
women.

The problem with raunchy porn is that men who view it lose touch with
real human emotion and connection, cannot deal with women except as
virgins or whores, and as they get used to one form of porn, they need
more violent forms for stimulation. Modern issues of Penthouse and Oui,
for instance, repectively show naked women whose limbs are completely
contorted, and naked women hugging machineguns. These images filter
down through other forms of media and serve to reinforce cultural norms
of violence against women: The movie ends focussed on the paired Calvin
Klein fashion-jean billboard, and one can't help but notice the woman
posed to take it in the rear.

Anyhow, there are a lot of things which are illegal in various parts of
our nation, including incest, rape, sodomy, homosexuality, oral sex,
etc., but the depiction of these acts on screen or in magazines is
not.

Jordan Pollack