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Subject: Re: Pornography - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 19:57:32 EST
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        The movie refered to in B. Mazur's article is Hardcore.  

        Regarding the # of women who have been raped, while I have known
few (as a % of the women I know well) women who have been raped, ~40%
of them have said that they have been involved in incestuous relationships.
For a number of reasons, these were psychologically devastating, though "not
as much as" a combination of incest and rape by the father or relative, said
the ones involved in this situation.
n.b. This is not to be taken as a defense for incest, each was traumatic.

       W.R.T. NOT A LOVE STORY and the assertion that most of it dealt with 
overt violence, what about the scenes with Tracey dancing as Little Red Riding
Hood, and the couple who screwed on stage. While these activities are usually
seen as non-violent, what about the violence involved in turning people into
commodities (non-thinking, non-individuals) and, in the latter case, the violence promulgated by having people who wanted to see a small, white, woman screwed 
by a large, black, man having a feedback loop to encourage their fantasies!
They are shown that their violent, misogynous, racist (some overlap in these 3)
dreams can be a reality. All forms of subjugation should be seen as violent;
especially as the more subtle forms are those keeping us in our gender ghettoes.

  
      Questions:    1) Do people see a difference between male vs. female strippers (not talking morphology here); and
                    2) Do you perceive a difference between nude models for artists and those who strip in the public at large, i.e. those not transfered to 
canvas?


                  Margins, what margins......
                       Cameron Anderson
                       watmath!watarts!cdanderson