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Subject: Re: Re: Attorney General's Commission on Pornography
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Date: Tue, 9-Sep-86 15:10:42 EDT
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>> >>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

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.

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.

In this instance the burden of proof is on those who dispute the statement;
the claim is one that we now act on as well-established.

If, on the other hand, you are saying that this behavior is not promoted by
pornography, or by *some* pornogrpahy, or that *no* pornogrpahy promotes this
behavior, we have a topic for discussion.

Now, what do you mean by ``promote''?  Do you mean bring about, or advertise
on behalf of?  Or have you some other definition?
-- 

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