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From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
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Subject: Re: Officer, arrest that man!  He...he manipulated my emotions!!
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Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 18:24:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 22 18:24:37 1986
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From: mat@mtx5a.UUCP (m.terribile):
>> >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?
>> >
>> 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...
>> 		--cosmique muffin (dorothy)
>> SWManipulator seeks Large Law Book (for use as Meese-seeking projectile)
>
>We are not talking about amusement park thrills.  We are talking about the
>deepest, most pervasive, and least understood part of the human psyche, as
>well as that segment of human behavior that is subject to apparently
>arbitrary but also apparently vital regulation in every human culture, in
>every religious system, and in the laws developed by every state (including
>the English Common Law).

	I think Dorothy's example goes deeper into the psyche than yours,
Mark - I'd class fear as more basic to, and pervasive in, human nature
than sex is. And just as roller coasters are a "cheap thrill" form of
danger, so porn is a "cheap thrill" form of sex. Yup, I'd say it's a
very good analogy.

-  love those cheap thrills!  -                 Kenn Barry
                                                NASA-Ames Research Center
                                                Moffett Field, CA
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