Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!qantel!lll-lcc!lll-crg!seismo!rochester!ritcv!cci632!rb From: rb@cci632.UUCP (Rex Ballard) Newsgroups: soc.singles Subject: Re: Illiterate pornography Message-ID: <425@cci632.UUCP> Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 18:27:55 EDT Article-I.D.: cci632.425 Posted: Mon Sep 29 18:27:55 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 1-Oct-86 05:44:51 EDT References: <1749@well.UUCP> <5138@dartvax.UUCP> <983@sunybcs.UUCP> Reply-To: rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard) Distribution: net Organization: CCI, Rochester Development, Rochester, NY Lines: 28 Summary: Words=quality? Same rules, different results. In article <983@sunybcs.UUCP> colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes: >> Let's check out a rearrangement here. "Pornography fosters a mindset >> to which accrues certain losses - including the highest illiteracty rate of >> any developed country - which do not outweigh the benefits pornography >> provides." >> Nobody reads the stuff next to the pictures, therefore pornography >> causes/contributes to illiteracy? > >Now you've got it: > > WORDS - GOOD! > PICTURES - BAD! > >Wall Street Journal is GOOD! Daily News is BAD! Comic books VERY BAD! Oh boy! That means Playboy, Penthouse, Forum, Variations, Vibrations, and Pillow Talk must be VERY GOOD! Since the ratio of printed matter to pictorials is even higher than the WSJ :-). >I'm PROUD to belong to the most highly developed of all illiterate >countries. Yes, but can we compete with Japan! (What's their attitude on porn, all I've seen from there is some "hard bondage" stuff :-). >Col. G. L. Sicherman Rex B.