Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!mauney From: mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney) Newsgroups: net.books,net.legal,net.women Subject: Re: Pornography doesn't degrade anybody Message-ID: <2758@ncsu.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 09:59:56 EST Article-I.D.: ncsu.2758 Posted: Tue Jan 8 09:59:56 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 23:43:02 EST References: <4699@tektronix.UUCP> Organization: N.C. State University, Raleigh Lines: 27 Xref: watmath net.books:1187 net.legal:1272 net.women:4013 > 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)