Regressions and Advances

Chuck Munson chuck at tao.ca
Fri Mar 15 14:56:41 PST 2002


michael pugliese wrote:
>
> Way behind in my lbo-talkin'...this thread moved to porn...
> Diana E.H. Russell, over at Mills College was quoted in the
> S.F. Examiner the other day saying she wished that the shooter
> of Larry Flynt had killed him.
> Yup, years ago in Santa Cruz I saw the graphic slideshow of the
> Woman Against Violence and Pornography in the Media and demonstrated
> against the Miss aka Myth California Pageant with the radical
> cultural feminists like Nikki Kraft with her suit of raw meat.
> Had a housemate (the same one that a few years later was active
> in the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, the above ground support
> group for the remnants of the Weather Underground)
> that picketed the 7-11 to remove their porn. Bah. Show me a study
> that shows that
> the rapes in Amsterdam vs. Columbus, Ohio are higher because
> porn is so open there.
> Michael Pugliese

My condolences. Sounds just like the religious right.

In fact, I did a pro-porn workshop at a convention of the American Library Association, which generated 500+ angry letters to the association from right wing fundamentalists.

One of the few times that I've felt that my activism hit a clear bulls eye.

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