Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-vision.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!mokhtar From: mokhtar@ubc-vision.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Pornography and Censorship, a woman's view + my view Message-ID: <1044@ubc-vision.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 22:58:28 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-visi.1044 Posted: Tue Sep 17 22:58:28 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 23:41:50 EDT Sender: mokhtar@ubc-visi.UUCP Organization: UBC Computational Vision Lab, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 19 Subject: Re: Pornography and Censorship, a woman's view > What I'd like to see, is an increase in awareness among the > people in our society that pornography is degrading to women > and promotes sexist attitudes, is exploitive of women, etc., > so that individuals in our society no longer condone > pornography. It is the change in attitudes that is > important. Did it ever occur to you that pornography can also be degrading to men? Only a sub-class of pornography is more degrading to women than it is to men. Farzin Mokhtarian ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I conclude, therefore, with regard to being feared and loved, that men love at their own free will, but fear at the will of the prince."