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From: showard@udenva.UUCP (Steve "Blore" Howard)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,soc.singles
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Commission on Pornography -- reply to GWSmith
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Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 16:16:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 18 16:16:53 1986
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In article <1554@mtx5a.UUCP> mat@mtx5a.UUCP (m.terribile) writes:
>
>Someone recently asked how we may ban ``Deep Throat'' while permitting ``Last
>Tango in Paris''.  Please note also the my use of the phrase ``cannot seriously
>be defended as having literary, educational, etc.'' interests.  Under the
>current standard, the Court has drawn a line right where you felt it could
>not be drawn.  Because of the requirement that the work be considered as a
>whole, (except where child pornography is concerned) an obscene work cannot
>be justified by a few quotes from Voltaire or a simplistic moral; a legitimate
>work cannot be condemned by a few torid love scenes, or even a few paraphelic
>depictions.

   That was me.  What I actually said was that the fundamental weakness of any
pornography control system can be seen when they get around to the issue of
keeping movies like "Last Tango in Paris" while banning movies like "Deep
Throat."  The weakness in the current system is that it requires a court
ruling on whether or not a piece of work is art--hardly the kind of thing we
want the judiciary to decide.  The Attorney General's commission, if I am
not mistaken, talks about films/magazines which are intended for nothing
but sexual arousal.  The weakness here is that a court must view a piece of
work and decide what purpose its creators had in mind. 

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