Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site scirtp.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp!jimi
From: jimi@scirtp.UUCP (Jim Ingram)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Possible Ban on Pornography
Message-ID: <433@scirtp.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 17:11:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: scirtp.433
Posted: Wed Sep 11 17:11:10 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Sep-85 04:04:07 EDT
References: <369@scirtp.UUCP> <1870@reed.UUCP> <416@aero.ARPA>
Distribution: net
Organization: SCI Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC
Lines: 36

> I wonder if a much more important source of the dehumanizing of our society
> is not commercial TV which so often displays in effect the same attitudes
> as hard core pornography ie: women are sex objects to be exploited. This
> portrayal in a much more culturally acceptable manner, I believe effects
> many more men and allows them to exploit women with peer approval. Some
> of this exploitation turns to violence perhaps because many males can't
> get the big cars etc that TV says are the way to get to exploit women.
> 
> I suspect that if the majority of TV programs showed male female
> relationships as wholsome, healthy, joyfull, mutual etc., the sales
> of pornography would drop to essentially zero.
>  

I read the September issue of _Interview_, about movies, recently.
One of their writers talked with Gloria Leonard, "porn actress" and
publisher of _High Society_ magazine.

She was asked if porn degraded women. Her response, paraphrased:

	No. What really degrades women is those commercials where
	they can't decide between the potatoes or the stuffing.

I'm not a fan of Ms. Leonard, but she, and the poster above, have a
good point.

I've always believed that the way I saw women portrayed on TV, ads  
and entertainment, during the 50's and 60's (and 70's and 80's) has
had a more insidious effect on my attitudes than any other societal
influence.
-- 

	The views expressed by me are my own and do not necessarily
	represent the views of any other individuals or organizations.

Jim Ingram			 {decvax, akgua, ihnp4}!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp!jimi
SCI Systems, Inc.   	   P.O. Box 12557, RTP, NC 27709            919 549 8334