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From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP (Allen England)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics
Subject: Re: pro-smut diatribe
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Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 17:14:52 EST
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> If you still aren't convinced that Penthouse puts down women, just read
> some of the sex fantasies in their `Forum' section.  Study the vocabulary
> a bit.  Sexual intercourse is an act of force, even of pain, in a lot of
> these.  And some of them are a lot more blatant; I remember one in which
> a man tells of turning his wife into a sex-slave--the acts described
> (which I won't go into here) were so criminal as to be worthy of a life
> sentence in many states.  Yet there was no note of this fact; just a
> glowing report of how nice this man's life has become with his new
> `pet'.

I simply can't agree.  I don't particularly want to defend Penthouse,
since I consider it very sleazy, but I have read as many letters from
women (in the Forum) describing how they turned their men into
sex slaves as from men.  I also don't see how you can say that the
camera is spying on someone who is outside on a public beach with no
clothes on (a very common pose in Penthouse).  I think you may have
been casting some of your own feelings onto the pictures to get
the interpretations you came up with.

Violently Opposed to Censorship!
Allen England at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL
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