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From: crs@lanl.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Censorship = Rape
Message-ID: <32376@lanl.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 12:22:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 12:22:12 1985
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> This is STella Calvert, a guest on the account and a non-employee of the
> organization I _still_ can't get out of the header.
> 
> In article <1171@rayssd.UUCP> hxe@rayssd.UUCP (Heather Emanuel) writes:
> 
> >                                        Most of the women who
> >post or respond via personal mail to various posters have made it
> >QUITE CLEAR that we view pornography as something that demeans us as
> >a whole and offends us as individuals, NOT as "being interested in
> >pretty women."
> 
> Heather, I don't mean this as a _personal_ attack.  But your claim that "we
> view" pornography in a certain way reminded me that I've been intending to 
> post from a different perspective.
> 
> [...]
> 
> to do so, whether I have to smuggle it in from a free country, buy it 
> locally, or sit down at the word processor and write it myself.
> 
> In one sense, I cannot see any difference between rape and censorship.  I have
> a right to decide what enters my body _and_ a right to decide what enters my 
> mind.  And I will fight any foolish attempt to coerce me in either case.  
> Fortunately, the censors are not yet using physical force.
> 
> 				STella Calvert

STella,

I would normally have tried to mail this but under the circumstances I
am nearly certain you wouldn't receive it.  Thank you for your article.

I thought your last paragraph was particularly well said.
-- 
All opinions are mine alone...

Charlie Sorsby
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