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From: dnelson@joevax.UUCP (Dorothy Nelson)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,net.legal,net.singles
Subject: Officer, arrest that man!  He...he manipulated my emotions!!
Message-ID: <279@joevax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 17:07:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: joevax.279
Posted: Tue Sep 16 17:07:55 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 17-Sep-86 03:38:21 EDT
References: <1487@mtx5a.UUCP> <15487@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1506@mtx5a.UUCP> <15596@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1522@mtx5a.UUCP> <778@mtund.UUCP>
Reply-To: dnelson@joevax.UUCP (Dorothy Nelson)
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Keywords: After reading porn, you start drooling and your pinkies fall off
Summary: Oh, please.
Xref: mnetor talk.politics.misc:137 net.legal:3579 net.singles:10365

In article <1487@mtx5a.UUCP> mat@mtx5a.UUCP (m.terribile) writes:
>In article <15487@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> somebody writes:
>> and I loathe any interference by the state with something as personal as the
>> emotions, including sexual arousal, engendered by whatever art one 
>> freely decides to experience. And my intuition is that a society which
>> regards sexual arousal as less desirable than horror or fear, and
>> forbids works which evoke the former while protecting those which evoke
>> the latter two, is *sick*.
>
>What about a society that holds these things as so personal and private
>that the community has the right to say that people shall not gratuitously
>manipulate the feelings and physical reactions of others?
>
MARK!!!  GOOD GOD, MARK, WHAT ARE YOU *SAYING*?
No, wait.  You're right.  There are all these people who obviously don't
know any better, and we have to protect them (poor wuzzums).  Good Lord,
you're *so* right.  Look at all these people being shamelessly stimulated
in the adrenal gland at amusement parks.  And people pay *money* to 
be thus gratuitously manipulated-- they *must* be brain dead, so the state
*must* step in to save their souls...
Thanks for making me see the light.

>
>	from Mole End			Mark Terribile

		--cosmique muffin (dorothy)

SWManipulator seeks Large Law Book (for use as Meese-seeking projectile)