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From: dls@ahuta.UUCP (d.skran)
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Subject: Re: Pornography doesn't degrade anybody
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Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 19:27:36 EST
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The hangups American's have about sex are awesome. In the
Netherlands it is AGAINST the law to REQUIRE swimsuits!
Think about it.

Being nude is not degrading.
Having sex is not degrading.
Doing these things on film/in public are not
degrading EXCEPT in the eyes of those watching, who
have been conditioned all their lives to view sex as 
a "dirty thing."

There are cultures without these odd taboos.

If you find films/books with nudity/sex degrading, this
says a lot more about your attitudes than anything else.

As for your test, I suspect a great many people would be
willing to have their pictures taken nude IF there existed
some assurance that the small minded of the world wouldn't
lash out against them. In this utopian fantasy, everyone
would have something better to do than claim that nude pictures
of people/sex are degrading.

This is not to say degradation cannot exist in porn, simply
that sex/nudity per se DOES NOT CONSTITUTE DEGRADATION.

Dale