File spoon-archives/surrealist.archive/surrealist_1997/97-01-28.224, message 55


Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:57:21 GMT
From: anacmar-AT-mail.telepac.pt (Carlos Martins)
Subject: Re: tract  


sorry Larry i still no see any problem to refer the word "pornography" but
this surely will be my particular point of view naturally influenced by the
conditions and tradition here (in my country none is being arrested, as in
the US, by the fact someone is fucking a girl with 14 years old or if a
self-expressed "imature" 17 years old girl is sucking a mature old man.
Nowadays generally people don`t reacts so violently against this and even if
mostly consider a 17 years old girl imature don`t discriminate her or worst
than that act violently against her.Probably this is due because we live more
than forty years in complete censorship, sexual or politically.
Even on television (and our television is also controled) it was possible
one of the most independent journalists to say that nowadays US are the most
fascist country in the world.
Here, while we may see "The Indepedance Day" (some like a new version, more
dramatic, of the comedy "The russians are coming") we also may see even
on TV the erotic films of Nagisa Oshima and another films censored in US.
So i totally agree with you all, as for you even the mention to
the word, sounds like to share the campaign of intoxication of the power and
the media against sex and pornography.
However if we refused to mention the word, probably the persons will not
see what we really think about the matter. Would be the same if we refused
to mention any other words which we don`t share the meaning given by the
power and the media, like democracy, freedom, revolution, dream and so many
others.
We have to oppose ourselves against even the meaning that they are
constantly given to that word and free it of the meaning they are giving.
Like surrealists did on the past about other concepts like eroticism
and even the own concept of love.
In the meanwhile i also agree with what Frank replied about the matter -
the track is not against pornography.

carlos




   

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