From: "jurriaan bendien" <Jbendien-AT-globalxs.nl> Subject: Re: M-TH: Who's afraid of Katie Roiphe?) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 21:24:57 +0100 Who is afraid of Katie Roiphe ? I'm not. Whether I'd have sex with her would depend on whether we liked each other though. As regards pornography, the guy who says he doesn't like porn is a bit like the guy who says he doesn't like books or says all prostitution is bad - a highly suspect utterance other than from an illiterate or inexperienced person. It's a question of mood, quality, phase of life and what turns you on, and porn can be very educational in that respect. I toured a girlfriend around Asia Carrera's website (www.asiacarrera.com) the other day by way of experiment, on her own request, and she said she enjoyed the experience, found it interesting. The main flaw with porn, as I pointed out to my friend, is that it is rather passive entertainment. As regards rape, I believe it is morally wrong and I couldn't do it personally. I confess I have met some stuck-up bitches in my life who flaunted themselves grotesquely and hurt men's feelings a lot, and I remember feeling that they deserved to get raped. Even so I didn't recommend or proceed with that policy, given my ethical belief. Moral panics about rape are something different again, they're usually a rather pathetic expression of middle class angst. Usually the people whipping up the moral hysteria have very little idea of what the real situation actually was. Gotta get out of here, I'm going blind. Cheers Jurriaan. --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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