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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Commission on Pornography -- reply to GWSmith
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> > The dividing line, which you are arguing (I think) cannot be drawn, is the
> > point at which a photographic or cinematic depiction is designed for *nothing*
> > except sexual arousal.  Triggering sexual arousal is not communication in any
> > sense related to the purposes of the Constitution.  Or at least it appears that
> > the Supreme Court has held this to be the case.
> 
> AH! Now we have gotten to the *crux* of the matter:
>                     sexual arousal
> 
> Nothing here about rape, nothing here about violence, nothing here
> about unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, nope
> just plain sexual arousal.
> ...
> Let's ban *anything* which may lead people to that awful, disgusting
> *sinful* pleasure of *SEXUAL AROUSAL*!!
>...
> Amidst all the noise about rape, violence, etc, you have finally stated
> the true desire of the Meese Commission and the right-wing fascists
> trying to take away our rights to private pleasures.  Their desire

Or, rather, the question of whether turning sexual arousal into a commodity
to be traded at the price the market will bear, and provided with all the
moral integrity of Big Business, is causing harm, doing good, or being
indifferent.

How much is it worth to you to have a camera in your bedroom so we can film
what you do and publish it?  Ten thousand, hundred thousand?  How about a
million?

Oops, you're about to be undersold by a couple of starving kids in the ghetto
who'll do it for a hundred-and-fifty.

	``Orgasms are up two in heavy trading on reports of a major new
	marketing campaign ...''

(Oh, let me be silly once in a while!  Trying to answer all of the silly ways
you encapsulate *your* agendas is getting to me!)

Sexual arousal is a means by which people may be manipulated.  A woman
known as CYNTHIA got intelligence information that turned WWII out of
very loyal officers of Vichy France:

		I discovered how easy it was to make highly trained,
		professionally close-mouted patriots give away secrets
		in bed, and I swore to close my ears to everything of
		value on our side.  The greatest joy is a man and woman
		together.  Making love allows a discharge of all those
		private innermost thoughts that have accumulated.  In this
		sudden flood, everything is released.  Everything.  I just
		never dared to learn our own secrets ...

						CYNTHIA, later Elizabeth Amy
						Thorpe (real name still secret)
						quoted in
						``A Man Called INTREPID''.

Hardly the stuff we want traded on the Mercantile Exchange ...
-- 

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