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From: chelsea@dartvax.UUCP (Karen Christenson)
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Subject: Re: Re: Attorney General's Commission on Pornography
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Date: Fri, 12-Sep-86 12:17:48 EDT
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>>>  [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
>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.

     I take it, then, that the "patterns of social behavior promoted by
pornography" were described in a previous section of the report?  Does
pornography in fact advocate "indiscriminant" sexual activity?  If not,
what standards of discrimination does it use?  Does pornography promote
the abandonment of contraceptive measures?
     Given the excerpts of the report I've seen (granted, they might be
selective, but holes are holes), I'd have a hard time getting a good grade
on it from any of my profs.

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