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From: pwk@ccice2.UUCP (Paul W. Karber)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Dworkin & MacKinnon Rumors
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 21:51:23 EDT
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In article <20800021@ada-uts.UUCP> richw@ada-uts.UUCP writes:
>
>The following is a copy of some mail I received after mentioning
>Dworkin and MacKinnon (staunch opponents of pornography) in a
>reply to some other note.  I thought it would be of interest
>-- i.e. stir up some controversy  :->
[text deleted]
>Anyone know where one can get a copy of "the Cambridge Chronicle"?

Cambridge?  Sorry I couldn't resist.

More along these same lines;

From PLAYBOY (not an unbiased source)

		"Ongoing research tends to confirm that movie
	depictions of violence seem to have a desensitizing effect on
	viewers but that this is a problem encountered for more often
	with R-rated movies, television soaps, and prime time shows
	then with even the most explicit porno films.  Addressing
	the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
	Professor Edward Donnerstien of the University of Wisconsin
	indicated that film entertainment in general often perpetuates
	old rape myths but added, "We've found no effects for sexual
	content alone."  Professor Joseph Scott of Ohio State University
	reported that a three-month study found X-rated pictures to have
	"the least violence of any type of movie" and said that another
	study had found "no relationship" between the states that
	ranked highest on the availability of sexual movies or magazines
	and the rates of reported rape.  Professor Murray Straus of the
	University of New Hampshire cited studies that have found that
	Ladies Home Journal and similar mass-circulation magazines have
	"more violence then PLAYBOY." However, visiting UCLA law professor
	Catharine MacKinnon, who wrote the antipronography statute
	pending in Los Angeles, countered that the "distinction between
	sex and violence is a false one.""

Strange I've always been for sex but against violence, now I guess I'll
say I'm ambivalent. :-)

-- 

Of course I could be wrong.

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