[lbo-talk] The Anti-Porn Left Strikes Again (Take 2)

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WEll, some porn, liteary and visual -- no reason porn
can't be literary -- is vile and exploitative; other
porn (most of it) is boring, mechanical and stupid,
some of it is artistic and intelligent, some of it is
arousing, some of it falls into one or more of these
cetegories. This is obvious, yes?  Thus Reage's Story
of O (the classic S&M novel novel) is self-consciously
vile and exploitative, also intelligent and if one has
a certain cast of mind, extremely arousing.

Few porn fans defend all porn. At least some porn
enemiesattack all porn, often in a rather puritanical
spirit.

When rthe discussion centers around legal action, the
distinction between quality porn another sorts drops
away on both sides.

jks

--- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> I wasn't thinking of movies; I was thinking about
> literature. I was also 
> wishing that we could have a discussion about
> pornography that didn't 
> divide the participants into puritans and freedom
> loving sex enthusiasts.
> 
> Joanna
> 
> Chuck0 wrote:
> 
> > joanna wrote:
> >
> >> Not exactly. Fiction is words on a piece of
> paper; porn involves 
> >> human beings being filmed or watched in sexual
> acts.
> >
> >
> > So are you arguing that there are no fictional
> movies? That all 
> > Hollywood movies are documentaries?
> >
> > OK, I know the acting in porn movies can be pretty
> bad, but there is 
> > quite a bit of fiction involved.
> >
> > Chuck
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