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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Slippery definitions
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 12:16:04 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.

A problem - under your definition, it is illegal for a movie to depict
a rape *in any fashion* for *any reason whatsoever* (even to demonstrate
the evils of rape). On the other hand, movies may include any number of
murders. Doesn't this seem a little silly? The only way out of this dilemma
that I see is to fall back on intent, and that opens up another whole can
of slippery definitions.

But I congratulate you on a good effort.

			just another series of "silly remarks" from
					Jeff Winslow