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From: todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones)
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Subject: The pornography debate
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> While images like the infamous "Penthouse" spread of last
> Thanksgiving which featured an Asian woman trussed up like a
> turkey fill me with outrage and fury, the "Playboy" images make
> me internally nervous.  I don't want to be mis-seen as a
> "Playboy" nymphomaniac any more than I want to be mis-seen as a
> willing victim of sadomasochistic violence.  It seems to me that
> the attitude that "Violence is uncool, but 'Playboy' isn't
> violence and is therefore justifiable entertainment" misses a
> great deal of the subtlety behind this form of pornography.
> 
> Pornography never presents an image of a woman saying 'no' and
> meaning it.  Thus the idea that women never do mean 'no' is
> encouraged.
> 
> Hope this clears up my position.

Ellen-
I just read this posting and I got so mad I ran over a pedestrian
with my bicycle. Boy, are you in big trouble!

-Love and High Fives,

todd jones