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From: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
Newsgroups: net.books,net.legal,net.women
Subject: Re: Pornography doesn't degrade anybody
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 03:02:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 11 03:02:17 1985
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Summary: 

>>  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.  

I've seen several versions of this comment, and I think the problem is that 
many of us poor innocents on the net don't understand what's being complained
about.  It had to be explained to me that what I thought was pornography is
called erotica by the anti-porn activists, while what they're fighting is
some really disgusting stuff that I never knew existed until I saw excerpts
on "60 Minutes".  A particularly prominent example involves an attack upon
a bathing woman by an intruder; the climax comes when he fires a nail into 
her head as she lies spread-eagled before him.  UGH!!

This garbage may be protected by the Constitution, but who says the 
Constitution is holy writ?  After all, the "founding fathers" weren't
long on feminist consciousness.  In fact, they were a pretty sleazy lot,
including several slaveholders and the inventor of some really grim
tortures for the "mentally ill".
-- 
Richard Mateosian
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