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From: susan@vaxwaller.UUCP (Susan Finkelman)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Possible Ban on Pornography
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 16:02:06 EDT
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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
> 

And here's where the meaning of the word "pornography" becomes really
important.  How would you feel if you found him reading the morning paper?
This morning we had articles about a weapons lab and bondage palace,
the Night Stalker, Cape Town violence,  and anti-satellite weapons
among other things.  Tonight on tv he can watch Convoy or 
Inside the 3rd Reich or Strangers on a Train.  Or he can watch after
school cartoons - He-man, Batman, Superfriends, Voltron etc.  

Do you allow the possible existence of "erotica"?  Is it violence or
sex that is the problem?  

  Susan Finkelman
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