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From: jla@usl.UUCP (Joe Arceneaux)
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Subject: Re: Re: Attorney General's Commission on Pornography
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Date: Sat, 20-Sep-86 00:03:56 EDT
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In article <1518@mtx5a.UUCP> mat@mtx5a.UUCP (m.terribile) writes:
> >> >>From the Final Report of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography:
> >>  [From Commissioner Dietz' statement]
> >> >>...
> >> >>consequences.  The person who follows the patterns of social behavior
> >> >>promoted by pornography is a person for whom love, affection, marriage,
> >> >>procreation, and responsibility are absolutely irrelevant to sexual
> >> >>conduct... We do not need research to tell us that such persons on the
> >> >>average contribute more than other persons to rates of illegitimacy,
> >> >>teenage pregnancy, abortion, and sexually transmitted diseases. 
> >
> >Interesting what people come up with without research...  Perhaps this
> >report should be classifed as fiction.
> >-- 
> >				Joseph Arceneaux
> 
> Interesting what people choose to pick on.  Note the behavior described:
> 
> 	indiscriminant sexual activity without contraception or prophylaxis

I do not see this behavior described in the above excerpt.  Is that
described elsewhere in the report, and defined as the 'social behavior
promoted by pornography'?  Or is that your personal opinion?  I guess
it doesn't matter, since even if it's described in the report, it's
just *someone else's* personal opinion.

> Note the claim:
> 
> 	people who do such things are more prone, per individual, to sexually
> 	transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancy and more likely to bring
> 	about illegitimacy or abortion.

Just what are 'such things'?  I imagine this also is defined elsewhere
in the report.

> Now you may take issue with these claims, but if you do you are taking issue
> with the whole rationale for compulsatory sex education in the schools.  You
> are also taking issue with the claims of the people who manufacture foams and
> condoms.
> ...

I would take issue with the contention that the use of erotica implies
a lack of sex education, or a penchant for not using contraceptives.
Does the report claim such a connection?  Are there any statistics on
this?  ...I guess not since they didn't need research.

The problem with this 'report' is that (from what I've seen so far) is
that it's merely the concensus opinion of a group of biased
individuals, and should be viewed as such.
-- 
				Joseph Arceneaux
				Lafayette, LA

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