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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Slippery definitions
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Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 22:44:08 EST
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> 
>      Let's start with my definitions.  (non-legalese, hopefully non-slippery)
> 
> Harmful sex:  sexual acts in which one or more participants are unwilling,
>   or under the age of consent, or in which one or more participants are
>   physically injured.
> Pornography:  material in the communications media that depicts or describes
>   harmful sex acts, regardless of whether it was made by such acts; or
>   material made by acts of harmful sex, whether or not it depicts or
>   describes such acts.
> What to do with pornography:  make it a criminal act to produce or distribute
>   it.
> 
> --Jamie.  (spokesman(jamie, X) <-> eq(X, jamie))

Lots of legitimate literature depicts or describes harmful sex acts as you have
defined them (e.g. Roots, the Bible).  You need to tighten up your definitions.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..."

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