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From: uggoodjm@sunybcs.UUCP (a Model I)
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Subject: Re: Re: coming out at work, and misc.
Message-ID: <2414@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 22:35:34 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 18 22:35:34 1985
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> In article <70@ucdavis.UUCP> up547413042@ucdavis.UUCP (up547413042) writes:
> >	First, about pornography. Regardless of of whether it is sexist or not,
> >censorship of pornography is a threat to the 1st Amendment and can eventually
> >lead to the encoachment upon the free speech rights of, among others, gay
> >people.
> 
> Do you think that there should be censorship of neo-nazi propaganda?  Anti-gay
> propaganda?
> Pornography is anti-woman propaganda.  I don't believe in government-controlled
> censorship but I do believe in people-controlled censorship.  I think that
> the people must do what they can to prevent the distribution of pornography,
> nazi literature, and so on.  More important than the right to free speech is
> the right to any kind of meaningful life at all, the right not to have people
> preaching hatred of you.

I don't know about most of the people on the net, but MY pornography doesn't
even contain women, so how the hell can it defame them?  I think this anti-porn
stuff is mostly garbage.  If I want to read it, so what if you don't like it.
Let's be realistic.  Porn has existed since nearly the beginning of time, in
matriarcal societies as well as patriarcal ones.  No one is ever going to
eliminate it.  And there are some people who use porn as a release.  I know that
for myself it acted as a release during that slow coming out process.  I don't
know what I would have done with out it.  So why not learn to live and let live?


J. Matthew Good
uggoodjm@sunybcs