Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxb!alle From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP (Allen England) Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics Subject: Re: pro-smut diatribe Message-ID: <529@ihuxb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 17:14:52 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxb.529 Posted: Thu Mar 1 17:14:52 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 07:30:12 EST References: <676@dciem.UUCP> <580@orca.UUCP>, <145@yeti.UUCP> <1712@randvax.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 22 > 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 ihnp4!ihuxb!alle