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Subject: Pornography - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 06:10:55 EST
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inmet!mazur    Feb 23 18:11:00 1984



Does anybody remember a movie (I can't remember the name) that starred
George C. Scott about pornography?  The plot was that Scott's teenage
daughter had run away to the big city and got involved with some porno
film makers.

The really scary part of this movie was at the very end.  The producer
was making a rape/murder movie, and to make it "realistic", the female
star of the film (within the movie) was actually killed, knifed to death
I believe.  Then George rescues his daughter and there's a happy ending.
Left me pretty unsettled.  This was a network TV movie, by the way.

My own feelings are that, if somebody out there gets his jollies from 
watching graphically violent films or reading the same type of magazines,
fine.  I just hope he isn't going out with (or married to) any of my
friends.  There are people out there who may be encouraged by these films
and magazines to act out these fantasies in real life.  This happens
in most of the visual media.  Some CBS stations are now censoring
the Warner Bros. cartoons like Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner.  I read
recently about a child who hanged himself after watching a cartoon
character do the same stunt.  Most of us grew up watching Bugs Bunny
without any harm.  Many men (do you really want me to say, and women?)
can watch these graphically violent films without harming other members
of society.  Is it better to regulate/censor pornography to help prevent
a small percentage of unstable men from acting out their fantasies?  I
know people are screaming about what they are doing to Bugs Bunny.

I tried to find the similarity between this type of pornography and a
typical Harlequin/Silhouette/Judith Krantz.  Yes, most of these books
contain a little soft-core porn, and they're getting a little racier.
However, I'm not too worried about Joe Schmoe picking up one of these
books, going out, pretending to be a pirate by raping and pillaging.


Beth Mazur
{ima,harpo,esquire}!inmet!mazur