roundtable: Re: Censorship and pornography

roundtable: Re: Censorship and pornography

Re: Censorship and pornography

W. Curtiss Priest (BMSLIB@mitvma.mit.edu)
Fri, 24 Mar 95 10:57:32 EST 

Message-Id: <9503241644.AA01541@a.cni.org>
Date:         Fri, 24 Mar 95 10:57:32 EST
From: "W. Curtiss Priest" <BMSLIB@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject:      Re: Censorship and pornography
To: Telecommunications Policy Roundtable <roundtable@cni.org>
In-Reply-To:  Message of Thu, 23 Mar 1995 15:40:29 -0500 from <dmendoza@tmn.com>


>kid's CDs anyway.Like these labels, "Xs" on things would serve as an 
>advertisement tokids that this is the "cool stuff" -- we are all, after 
>all, drawn to what is forbidden

We will tire this list we a continued discussion.  Not because it isn't
important, but it is a very difficult issue, and one that is difficult
to substantiate anyone's position.

Labeling can be misused.  But I warrant that the Surgeon General's 
warnings on cigarettes, over time, has made an impact, and led the way 
to the new public service ads that show lungs on large billboards of 
smokers and those that quit, after 5 months, etc.

So, too, we will gradually recognize why pornography is both alluring
and debasing.  The cultural values that pornography threatens are
subtle.  When things are subtle, especially things that are attractive
to the libido, etc., there will be a long struggle.

Only when those against pornography she, as explicitly, the effects, as
graphically as these bill boards, do I think that we will come to
a consensus.

Regards -- Curt

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