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Re: Clearly those Canadians are concerned about censorship...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 8 Apr 2004 19:03:04 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
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I’m hoping that the proposed .XXX config goes through and all porn must be
changed over to this domain so that there is never any mistaking it or
stumbling upon it by children.
And that is all I have to say about that;-)
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On this I agree--but you never know what you are going to get.
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Of course, there’s absolutely no way to implement that policy effectively, or to
police it credibly, unless we have a clear, precise, and consistent definition
of what qualifies as pornography. Who would care to posit such a definition?
Consider:
The scenes in
Schindler’s List of dozens of naked Jews being led to slaughter
The Ecstasy of St. Catherine of
Siena
Naked Lunch
Henry and June
The Collected Works of Ms. Jenna Jameson
The Collected Works of
Mr. Robert Mapplethorpe
Any of a zillion
figure studies for the artist
Are all of these pornographic or deserving of censorship? Are any of them?
Why, or why not, in each case?
Etymologically, the origin of “dirty” words in English stems largely from the
conquest of 1066 and the resulting scism between Anglo-Saxon and Norman ways of
referring to things. But beyond that, it seems to me that puritanism seems to
abhor the realization that human beings are animals that (among other things)
fornicate and excrete. The whole drive to declare some words or images
“profane” seems to stem from a need to sanctify the human body, or at least to
divorce it from its animal nature.
It’s all ridiculous, if you ask me. Janet’s ornamented breast or Howard’s racy
questions or Jolene Blalock’s bared Vulcan butt are only verboten because of
prudish fears that we would all destroy ourselves if we suddenly remembered that
we’re flesh and blood.
Dave!
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