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From: rohn@randvax.UUCP (Laurinda Rohn)
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Subject: Re: Confining the pornography debate
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Date: Sun, 3-Feb-85 20:11:11 EST
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> from Tim Maroney
> The pornography issue is essentially about sex.  There is, however, no
> net.sex, for discussion of sexual issues.  I propose such a group be
> created, and the pornography debate moved to there.
> 
> I think the idea of new top-level groups like "net.pornography" to
> accomodate single discussions is a bad one.  A net.sex (or net.sexuality)
> would solve the pornography debate problem while not being restricted to
> discussion of pornography.

Unfortunately, the pornography issue encompasses more than just sex.
Legal and "moral" issues are also in there.  I don't think the debate
warrants its own group yet, but it's getting close.  I've been hoping
for some time that the whole debate would die of its own repetition,
but that doesn't seem to be happening.  It's beginning to sound very
much like the abortion "discussion".

The only reasonable thing I can think of would be net.legal.porn.  I
can't think of anywhere else that it belongs, except maybe /dev/null.
(Only 1/2 :-) )


					Lauri
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