Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!mcnc!rti-sel!dg_rtp!throopw From: throopw@dg_rtp.UUCP (Wayne Throop) Newsgroups: soc.singles Subject: Re: porn report Message-ID: <611@dg_rtp.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 18:40:26 EDT Article-I.D.: dg_rtp.611 Posted: Wed Oct 1 18:40:26 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Oct-86 20:47:17 EDT References: <1800@well.UUCP> <1566@mtx5a.UUCP> Lines: 34 Summary: X rated _Rambo_, PG rated _Urban_Heat_ > mat@mtx5a.UUCP (m.terribile) > [...] it > seems to me that if you have a damaging behavior that is reinforced through > exposure to something, one way to help cut into that reinforcement is to > remove the exposure. But is it the best way? Or even a good way? This is far from obvious. > And if the damage to even a few is great enough, and if > those few include victims who did not choose to be exposed to the material > in question, and were not, you have a sufficient cause for restricting at > least the most damaging material, especially if it is also of relatively > little interest to those who are not harmed by it, and are not affected to > harm someone else by it. Fine. Restricting Alcohol, R-rated movies, automobile exhaust systems, and so on and on is an arguably reasonable thing, and widely accepted. *BUT*!!!!! It is dishonest and misleading to recommend restriction of sexually explicit materials to a degree greater than that of violent materials, based on incomplete studies of the effects of violence alone. Based on the objective and high-sounding criteria above, and based on what we now know, I would expect _Rambo_ to be restricted to adults over 21 (effectively rated X), and movies containing only explicit, nonviolent sex between consenting adults (such as _Urban_Heat_ for example) to be available to anyone at all. (Well... perhaps rated effectively PG.) -- The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed. --- Robert A. Heinlein -- Wayne Throop !mcnc!rti-sel!dg_rtp!throopw