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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
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Subject: Re: Pornography doesn't degrade women ...
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Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 12:16:34 EST
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> I strongly feel that pornographic images of women degrade everybody 
> involved, the women that pose and the men that look at the pictures.
> It degrades the woman by depicting her as body to jump on top of,
> or a body to harm.  It degrades the men who look at the pictures
> (and this point is made much less often) by having them futiley
> lust to have their way with naked women.  

> Porn points to men's unfulfilled needs for human and sexual contact.
> In fact, I think that the main need is human contact.   It also
> points to unfulfilled needs for control and power.   But looking at
> pictures doesn't satisfy the needs at all.  It simply leaves men
> frustrated and angry.

Well, frustration is not degradation (in fact, I haven't been able to
figure out from all this brouhaha just what "degradation" is supposed to
be - maybe sort of a cross between "I don't like it" and "My religion says
I don't like it"). But the main point is -

Maybe it leaves *you* frustated and angry. Maybe *you* lust futilely. Don't
generalize. I always felt happy and at peace with the world afterwards. 

Of course, you have to do more than just "look" at the pictures. Or didn't
you know?


Maybe it's time for net.men.only, after all. :-)

                         A fantasy a day keeps the frustration away...
                                          Jeff Winslow