Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lanl.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!crs From: crs@lanl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.books,net.women Subject: Re: Pornography doesn't degrade women ...(re: E. Leeper) Message-ID: <19554@lanl.ARPA> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 16:15:12 EST Article-I.D.: lanl.19554 Posted: Tue Jan 15 16:15:12 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 00:43:47 EST References: <243@looking.UUCP>, <11300010@smu.UUCP>, <4560@cbscc.UUCP>, <354@ahuta.UUCP>, <4585@cbscc.UUCP> <4917@utzoo.UUCP> Sender: newsreader@lanl.ARPA Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 32 Xref: watmath net.books:1234 net.women:4112 > Another thing to consider is the attitude that ``if it is illegal then > it must be pretty good!''. Or didn't you sneak into restricted films > just because you knew that whatever it was, must be really something? > > Laura Creighton > utzoo!laura Another example of this was mentioned a while ago (I'm sorry, I don't recall by whom). Our grand experiment with Prohibition! If what I've read isn't all wet, many people drank then who wouldn't have otherwise -- no, I can't cite references. Paul Dubuc, attempting to rebut Evelyn Leeper's rebuttal of his article arbitrarily decided to substitute "kiddy porn" for his original "porn." This is the real reason for this posting. Children are often distinguished from adults under the law and this is (usually) as it should be. Adults are allowed to buy, use, and, sometimes, abuse alcoholic beverages; CHILDREN ARE NOT. Adults are (sometimes, so far) allowed to buy porn; CHILDREN ARE NOT. Adults are (so far) allowed to act in porn; CHILDREN ARE NOT. This is for the protection of the children, who under the law, are not yet able to decide for themselves. I must say, I agree with Laura and Evelyn. As an aside, I find it incredible that with all this energy directed at porn few have even mentioned the violence that pervades TV and the movies and it isn't even X rated! Now *that* is obscene. Charlie