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From: dawn@prism.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: pornography, women, ERA
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Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 15:49:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  3 15:49:00 1985
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/* Written  6:17 pm  Nov 25, 1985 by berke@ucla-cs in prism:net.legal */
/* ---------- "pornography, women, ERA" ---------- */
...Regarding a previous posting, I believe there are laws against child porn.
There is little reason for laws against the degredation of men since men, in
general, do the degredation, and are not in fact victims of any degredation
but their own...
Peter Berke
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	I think that if were are going to pass laws against pornography,
	we should recognize that men, women, and children are ALL to
	varying degrees degraded by pornography.  The law(s) -- if we
	must have them -- should protect all these people.  Who degrades
	whom is not the issue. 

	The wording of the pornography law that was posted in this group
	was, in my opinion, sexist.  We shouldn't be writing sexist laws
	that favor *either* gender.

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