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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Possible Ban on Pornography
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Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 17:56:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  4 17:56:57 1985
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> [Ellen Eades, in an argument against tolerating pornography]
> And finally, a personal response, which should not be discounted
> for its subjectivity.  Were I to find that an otherwise kind,
> intelligent, sensitive male of my acquaintance read pornography
> or watched pornographic films, my immediate response, as a woman
> and a person of color, is to wonder whether he sees my face on
> those trussed-up, whipscarred, burned, mutilated, impaled,
> spermsmeared bodies; whether he would like to see me tied up and
> whipped and burned; and most of all, whether he believes, in his
> deepest convictions, that I would enjoy it when he beats me to
> death.  And I would be terribly, terribly angry, and afraid, and
> ashamed, for him.
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Much (perhaps most?) pornography does not depict torture, mutilation,
or rape, but non-violent behavior of consenting adults.  Your remarks are
understandable and valid as far as they go, but only against that subset
of pornography depicting such acts.  Your posting fails to make the distinction.
-- 
Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan