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From: mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney)
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Subject: Re: Pornography doesn't degrade anybody
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Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 09:59:56 EST
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>  Not quite.  Pornography truly degrades all people, men as well as women, by
>  reducing us to an extremely base level.

I fail to see what is degrading about sex.  Most of the people on Earth
engage in a screwing activity sometime during their lives,  and most of
them do it repeatedly.  Are your parents degraded because they had sex?
   (I looked at my father.  Him, I could believe.  But with *my Mother*,
    he had a lot of nerve)
Not just coitus between lovers, either, but oral sex, one-night stands,
swingers, homosexuals, teenagers that have figured out how to do it but
still don't know why.  Kinky sex.
   (I'd call him a sadistic, animalistic necrophiliac, but that's
    beating a dead horse.)
In all its infinite variety, sex is a lot more natural than football,
or private detectives, or cowboys, or game shows.  Is that why it's
degrading? Because it's not sufficiently artificial?

My wife likes to look at food: the jars of pickles in a supermarket,
the pictures in Gourmet magazine.  Does this reduce her to a base level?
Why is it degrading to admit that our instinctive behavior can be enjoyable?
-- 

Jon Mauney,    mcnc!ncsu!mauney
North Carolina State University

Q: Is sex dirty?
A: It is if it's done right.     (Woody Allen)