Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!ked From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Illegality of alt.sex Keywords: illegal activities Message-ID: <19924@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 4 Feb 89 05:33:50 GMT References: <2995@ficc.uu.net> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 19 Perhaps the best test of the alleged pornography-violence thesis is Japan. You can buy any number of items at your neighborhood bookstore or from vending machines that would be considered violent pornography or kiddy-porn in the US. Nevertheless, I have yet to meet a woman (Japanese or foreign) who did not feel safer in Japan. Moreover, you can multiply every violent crime statistic in Japan by a factor of TEN to allow for under reporting, and it still will not be up the the level of more restrictive countries such as the US. E H. Kinmonth, Hist. Dept., Univ. of Ca., Davis Davis, Ca. 95616 916-752-1636/0776 Disclaimer: This is AmeriKa! Who needs a disclaimer! Internet: ehkinmonth@ucdavis.edu cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu BITNET: ehkinmonth@ucdavis UUCP: {ucbvax, lll-crg}!ucdavis!ehkinmonth {ucbvax, lll-crg}!ucdavis!deneb!cck