Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!vsi1!octopus!avsd!childers From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Illegality of alt.sex Keywords: illegal activities Message-ID: <467@avsd.UUCP> Date: 7 Feb 89 22:31:04 GMT References: <2995@ficc.uu.net> <19924@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) Organization: die Edelstahlratte Lines: 31 ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes: >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. While I, too, feel that alt.sex does more to correct the situation between the sexes than its omission, I also know that there are a lot of unreported sex crimes in Japan, and that women are still in a position of helplessness vis-a-vis many sex-related crimes. Molestation on crowded trains is not uncommon, for instances. >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. True. >E H. Kinmonth, Hist. Dept., Univ. of Ca., Davis Davis, Ca. 95616 -- richard -- * "Do not look at my outward shape, but take what is in my hand." * * -- Jalaludin Rumi, 1107-1173 * * ..{amdahl|decwrl|octopus|pyramid|ucbvax}!avsd.UUCP!childers@tycho * * AMPEX Corporation - Audio-Visual Systems Division, R & D *