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From: sed408@ihlpg.UUCP (s. dugan)
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Subject: Re: Possible Ban on Pornography
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Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 11:04:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  9 11:04:21 1985
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> 
> 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.
> 
> Ellen Eades
> 

It seems to me that you know very little about "pornography."  There are a
wide range of degrees of hard and soft porn.  Some are pretty tame (PLAYBOY)
and some are way off on the fring (child-porn and human-animal sex).  Before
you dismiss it ALL as being abusive to women, I think you better educate
yourself a little bit.  

My dictionary defines pornography as that which is obscene.  I looked up
obscene and found it defined as "causing or intended to cause sexual
excitement or lust."  Nowhere in that definition does it say anything about
abusing/mutilating anyone.  While I agree that there is a lot of porn that
depicts things like that, not all of it does.  I, personally, have seen quite
a few books and movies that simply depict one, two or more adults enjoying
sex.  There have been a lot of them that showed some rather odd, sensual
acrobatic acts that were far from abusive.  I, for one, am not afraid to say
that I enjoyed them and (in the right company) found them rather stimulating
and exciting.

I'm sorry if that offends you.  Maybe if you tried to open your mind a little
bit, you wouldn't respond so rabidly to things which you don't understand.

Go ahead.  Flame at will.


-- 
Sarah E. Dugan
"Easy Does It, But *DO* It"

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