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The Pornography Plague
Leadership U ^ | Kerby Anderson

Posted on 07/14/2004 7:46:19 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

Pornography is tearing apart the very fabric of our society. Yet Christians are often ignorant of its impact and apathetic about the need to control this menace.

Pornography is an $8 billion a year business with close ties to organized crime.(1) The wages of sin are enormous when pornography is involved. Purveyors of pornography reap enormous profits through sales in so-called "adult bookstores" and viewing of films and live acts at theaters.

Pornography involves books, magazines, videos, and devices and has moved from the periphery of society into the mainstream through the renting of video cassettes, sales of so-called "soft-porn" magazines, and the airing of sexually explicit movies on cable television. To some, pornography is nothing more than a few pictures of scantily-clad women in seductive poses. But pornography has become much more than just photographs of nude women.

Nearly 900 theaters show pornographic films and more than 15,000 "adult" bookstores and video stores offer pornographic material. Adult bookstores outnumber McDonald's restaurants in the United States by a margin of at least three to one.(2) In 1985, nearly 100 full-length pornographic films were distributed to "adult" theaters providing estimated annual box office sales of $50 million.(3)

Definitions

The 1986 Attorney General Commission on Pornography defined pornography as material that "is predominantly sexually explicit and intended primarily for the purpose of sexual arousal." Hard core pornography "is sexually explicit in the extreme, and devoid of any other apparent content or purpose."(4) Another important term is the definition of obscenity. The current legal definition of obscenity is found in the 1973 case of Miller v. California. "According to the Miller case, material is obscene if all three of the following conditions are met:

1. The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interests.
2. The work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state (or federal) law, and
3. The work taken as a whole, lacks serious, artistic, political or scientific value.(5)

Types of Pornography

The first type of pornography is adult magazines. These are primarily directed toward an adult male audience (but not exclusively). The magazines which have the widest distribution (e.g., Playboy, Penthouse) do not violate the Miller standard of obscenity and thus can be legally distributed. But other magazines which do violate these standards are still readily available in many adult bookstores.

The second type of pornography is video cassettes. These are rented or sold in most adult bookstores and have become a growth industry for pornography. People who would never go into an adult bookstore or theater to watch a pornographic movie will obtain these video cassettes through bookstores or in the mail and watch them in the privacy of their homes. Usually these videos display a high degree of hard core pornography and illegal acts.

The third type of pornography is motion pictures. Ratings standards are being relaxed and many pornographic movies are being shown and distributed carrying R and NC-17 ratings. Many of these so-called "hard R" rated films would have been considered obscene just a decade ago.

A fourth type of pornography is television. As in motion pictures, standards for commercial television have been continuously lowered. But cable television poses an even greater threat. The FCC does not regulate cable in the same way it does public access stations. Thus, many pornographic movies are shown on cable television. Like video cassettes, cable TV provides the average person with easy access to pornographic material. People who would never go to an adult bookstore can now view the same sexually explicit material in the privacy of their homes, making cable TV "the ultimate brown wrapper."

A fifth type of pornography is cyberporn. Hard core pictures, movies, online chat, and even live sex acts can be downloaded and viewed by virtually anyone through the Internet. Sexually explicit images can be found on web pages and in news groups and are far too easy for anyone of any age to view. What was only available to a small number of people willing to drive to the bad side of town can now be viewed at any time in the privacy of one's home.

A final type of pornography is audio porn. This includes "Dial-a- porn" telephone calls which are the second fastest growth market of pornography. Although most of the messages are within the Miller definition of obscenity, these businesses continue to thrive and are often used most by children.

According to Henry Boatwright (Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Board for Social Concerns), approximately 70 percent of the pornographic magazines sold end up in the hands of minors. Women Against Pornography estimate that about 1.2 million children are annually exploited in commercial sex (child pornography and prostitution).

Psychological Effects

Psychologist Edward Donnerstein (University of Wisconsin) found that brief exposure to violent forms of pornography can lead to anti-social attitudes and behavior. Male viewers tend to be more aggressive toward women, less responsive to pain and suffering of rape victims, and more willing to accept various myths about rape.(6)

Researchers have found that pornography (especially violent pornography) can produce an array of undesirable effects such as rape and sexual coercion. Specifically they found that such exposure can lead to increased use of coercion or rape,(7) increased fantasies about rape,(8) and desensitization to sexual violence and trivialization of rape.(9)

In an attempt to isolate the role of violence as distinct from sex in pornography-induced situations, James Check (York University in Canada) conducted an experiment where men were exposed to different degrees of pornography, some violent, some not. All groups exhibited the same shift in attitude, namely a higher inclination to use force as part of sex.(10)

In one study, researchers Dolf Zillman and Jennings Bryant investigated the effects of nonviolent pornography on sexual callousness and the trivialization of rape. They showed that continued exposure to pornography had serious adverse effects on beliefs about sexuality in general and on attitudes toward women in particular. They also found that pornography desensitizes people to rape as a criminal offense.(11) These researchers also found that massive exposure to pornography encourages a desire for increasingly deviant materials which involve violence (sadomasochism and rape).(12)

Dolf Zillman measured the impact of viewing pornography on the subjects' views as to what constitutes normal sexual practice. The group that saw the largest amount of pornography gave far higher estimates of the incidence of oral sex, anal sex, group sex, sado- masochism, and bestiality than did the other two groups.(13)

One study demonstrated that pornography can diminish a person's sexual happiness.(14) The researchers found that people exposed to nonviolent pornography reported diminished satisfaction with their sexual partner's physical appearance, affection, curiosity, and sexual performance. They were also more inclined to put more importance on sex without emotional involvement.

In a nationwide study, University of New Hampshire researchers Larry Baron and Murray Strauss found a strong statistical correlation between circulation rates of pornographic magazines and rape rates.(15) They found that in states with high circulation rates, rape rates were also high. And in states with low circulation rates, rape rates also tended to be low as well.

Of course, a statistical correlation does not prove that pornography causes rape. Certainly not everyone who uses pornography becomes a rapist. And it is possible that rape and pornographic consumption are only indirectly related through other factors, like social permissiveness and "macho" attitudes among men. In fact, Baron and Strauss did examine some of these factors in their study and did not find any significant correlation.

Subsequent studies have had similar results. Ohio State University researchers Joseph Scott (a man who testifies frequently for pornographers in court) and Loretta Schwalm examined even more factors than Baron and Strauss (including the circulation of non- sexual magazines) and could not eliminate the correlation between pornography and rape.(16)

Michigan state police detective Darrell Pope found that in 41 percent of the 38,000 sexual assault cases in Michigan (1956 1979), pornographic material was viewed just prior to or during the crime. This corroborates with research done by psychotherapist David Scott who found that "half the rapists studied used pornography to arouse themselves immediately prior to seeking out a victim."(17)

Social Effects

Defining the social effects of pornography has been difficult because of some of the prevailing theories of its impact. One view was that it actually performs a positive function in society by acting like a "safety-value" for potential sexual offenders.

The most famous proponent of this view was Berl Kutchinsky, a criminologist at the University of Copenhagen. His famous study on pornography found that when the Danish government lifted restrictions on pornography, the number of sex crimes decreased.(18) His theory was that the availability of pornography siphons off dangerous sexual impulses. But when the data for his "safety valve" theory was further evaluated, many of his research flaws began to show.

For example, Kutchinsky failed to distinguish between different kinds of sex crimes (e.g., rape, indecent exposure, etc.) and instead merely lumped them together. This effectively masked an increase in rape statistics. He also failed to take into account that increased tolerance for certain crimes (e.g., public nudity, sex with a minor) may have contributed to a drop in the reported crimes.

Proving cause and effect in pornography is virtually impossible because ethically researchers cannot do certain kinds of research. Researcher Dolf Zillman says, "Men cannot be placed at risk of developing sexually violent inclinations by extensive exposure to violent or nonviolent pornography, and women cannot be placed at risk of becoming victims of such inclinations."(19)

Deborah Baker, a legal assistant and executive director of an anti-obscenity group, agrees that conclusively proving a connection between pornography and crime would be very difficult:

The argument that there are no established studies showing a connection between pornography and violent crime is merely a smokescreen. Those who promote this stance well know that such research will never be done. It would require a sampling of much more than a thousand males, exposed to pornography through puberty and adolescence, while the other group is totally isolated from its influence in all its forms and varying degrees. Each group would then have to be monitored through the commission of violent crimes or not. In spite of the lack of formal research, though, the FBI's own statistics show that pornography is found at 80 percent of the scenes of violent sex crimes, or in the homes of the perpetrators.(20)

Nevertheless, there are a number of compelling statistics that suggest that pornography does have profound social consequences. For example, of the 1400 child sexual molestation cases in Louisville, Kentucky, between July 1980 and February 1984, adult pornography was connected with each incident and child pornography with the majority of them.(21) Extensive interviews with sex offenders (rapists, incest offenders, and child molesters) have uncovered a sizable percentage of offenders who use pornography to arouse themselves prior to and during their assaults.(22) Police officers have seen the impact pornography has had on serial murders. In fact, pornography consumption is one of the most common profile characteristics of serial murders and rapists.(23)

Professor Cass Sunstein, writing in the Duke Law Journal, says that some sexual violence against women "would not have occurred but for the massive circulation of pornography." Citing cross-cultural data, he concludes:

The liberalization of pornography laws in the United States, Britain, Australia, and the Scandinavian countries has been accompanied by a rise in reported rape rates. In countries where pornography laws have not been liberalized, there has been a less steep rise in reported rapes. And in countries where restrictions have been adopted, reported rapes have decreased.(24)

In his introduction to a reprint of the Final Report of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, columnist Michael McManus noted that

The FBI interviewed two dozen sex murderers in prison who had killed multiple numbers of times. Some eighty-one percent said their biggest sexual interest was in reading pornography. They acted out sex fantasies on real people. For example, Arthur Gary Bishop, convicted of sexually abusing and killing five young boys said, "If pornographic material would have been unavailable to me in my early states, it is most probable that my sexual activities would not have escalated to the degree they did." He said pornography's impact on him was "devastating. . . . I am a homosexual pedophile convicted of murder, and pornography was a determining factor in my downfall."(25)

Dr. James Dobson interviewed Ted Bundy, one of this nation's most notorious serial killers. On the day before his execution, Ted Bundy said that the "most damaging kinds of pornography are those that involve violence and sexual violence. Because the wedding of those two forces, as I know only too well, brings about behavior that is just, just too terrible to describe."(26)

Censorship and Freedom of Speech

Attempts to regulate and outlaw pornography within a community are frequently criticized as censorship and a violation of the First Amendment. But the Supreme Court clearly stated in Roth v. United States (1957) that obscenity was not protected by the First Amendment. Federal, state, and local laws apply to the sale, display, distribution, and broadcast of pornography. Pornographic material, therefore, can be prohibited if it meets the legal definition of obscenity.

The Supreme Court ruled in the case of Miller v. California (1973) that a legal definition of obscenity must meet the three-part test we previously discussed. If it appeals to the prurient interest, is patently offensive, and lacks serious value (artistically, etc.) then the material is considered obscene and is illegal.

The Supreme Court further ruled in Paris Adult Theatre v. Slaton (1973) that material legally defined as obscene is not accorded the same protection as free speech in the First Amendment. The court ruled that even if obscene films are shown only to "consenting adults," this did not grant them immunity from the law.

In the case of New York v. Ferber (1982), the Supreme Court ruled that child pornography was not protected under the First Amendment even if it was not legally defined as obscene under their three- part test. Since children cannot legally consent to sexual relations, child pornography constitutes sexual abuse. Congress also passed the Child Protection Act in 1984 which provided tougher restrictions on child pornography.

Cable television is presently unregulated since it is not technically "broadcasting" as defined in the Federal Communications Act. Thus, cable television is able to show pornographic movies with virtual impunity. The FCC Act needs to be amended so that the FCC can regulate cable television.

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To: Tailgunner Joe
To their sick minds, very little is obscene.

In our legal system, to have something delcared obscene, you need to be able to convince a jury that it meets the defintion laid down by the supreme court.

Prosecutors rarely file obscenity charges because they know most Americans will not convict somebody of selling or producing pornographic materials, even if the jurors personally find the stuff in front of them to be vile. It's a herculean task for a prosecutor to get 12 people to agree that the images in front of them can be considered patently offensive.

Through their unwillingness to convict producers of consensual adult porn, the people have spoken on this issue.

301 posted on 07/14/2004 11:21:15 AM PDT by Modernman ("I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members" -Groucho Marx)
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To: robertpaulsen

Since it is individuals who break laws, then laws are written in an attempt to control individual behaviour. So, again, who is the victim in my, or anyone else possessing a lottery ticket in NC?


302 posted on 07/14/2004 11:22:47 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
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To: Modernman
"There's plenty of gay porn out there."

I personally would not know where to find gay porn, but I do know that it is not on every billboard or every newstand, and I do know that hot homosexual sex scences are not promoted on TV or in magazines that everyone reads or talked about liberally in music...

IOWS.....its pretty hidden....

but just wait, as this homosexual revolution keeps rolling along, it will be everywhere, and then people like you who don't care about your own young female relatives..will be howling in protest when the porn studios start offering little cute Johnny a big part in a gay perversion film.....

it is coming....

I would love to know how you justify your porn habits in the fact of the fact that you wouldn't want your own kid to do it....

that is unabashedly sociopathic thinking....

303 posted on 07/14/2004 11:23:23 AM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry
I do know that hot homosexual sex scences are not promoted on TV or in magazines that everyone reads or talked about liberally in music...

Where have you been the past 10 years? Gay characters and gay sex is becoming more and more common on TV. And articles on gays and interviews with them are the stuff of cover stories on many major magazines.

then people like you who don't care about your own young female relatives..will be howling in protest when the porn studios start offering little cute Johnny a big part in a gay perversion film.....

When my child becomes 18, a legal adult, it is their choice if they want to get into the porn business. I have no legal ground on which to stop them. Nor do I have any legal grounds to stop someone from trying to recruit them into the business.

I would love to know how you justify your porn habits in the fact of the fact that you wouldn't want your own kid to do it....

I am a smoker. I do not want any of my children to ever smoke. And I have no problem justifying that.

304 posted on 07/14/2004 11:27:44 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

And pornography is intrinsically evil.


305 posted on 07/14/2004 11:27:50 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Junior
I don't care. It was an example. Pick any crime that has been shown to have a direct association with pornography -- sexual assault, public nudity, sex with a minor, prostitution, etc.

And as far as statistics, who are you to say that without the increase in porn, rapes would have have declined by 90%; attempted rapes by 91.4%; and sexual assaults by 97.5%?

306 posted on 07/14/2004 11:32:27 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: Phantom Lord; cherry
" Where have you been the past 10 years?"

No kidding, they have even had gay characters in comic books before that time frame.

Marvel Comics: Alpha Flight #106 -March 1992
Northstar 'Comes out of the closet'

307 posted on 07/14/2004 11:42:04 AM PDT by Outlaw76 (Citizens on the Bounce!)
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To: tpaine
I'll restate my original point, as I may not have been clear. If you'll note, I've made no comment to people who's argument is "I like pornography." My specific response was to an individual who made the claim that [paraphrased] if you don't defend pornorgraphy, they'll take away your other free speech rights. My refutation was that the ACLU, which has made statements that there should be NO restrictions on ANY kind of pornography (their official stance is that if illegal acts are conducted in the production of pornography, those acts should remain illegal, but once the pornography is produced, it should be legally available to all) is active in legal attempts to silence and subvert positions with which they disagree. They've sued the Boy Scouts multiple times. They've filed lawsuits to require towns to change street names because they were named after books of the Bible. They've filed lawsuits to prevent prayers before football games.

Before you say, "That's not a freedom of speech issue, that's a separation of church and state issue," remember that they have no problem with the National Endowment for the Arts funding works like 'Piss Christ', and the Mary with dung smeared on her. They had no problem with the NEA funding an Art show in which Cardinal John O'Conner was referred to as 'a fat creep in a black dress" in the program. These examples are "freedom of speech" issues. They have carefully constructed an argument so that anti-Christian diatribes are protected free speech and may receive government funding, while positive statements about Christianity violate the separation of Church and state.

Please note that nowhere in any of my posts have I stated that pornography should be illegal. I haven't expressed an opinion on that.

I do think, however, that pretending we have free speech because all forms of pornography are legal is absurd, and that many people who defend pornography are the most active in suppressing speech with which they disagree. I'm far more concerned about Campaign Finance Reform.

308 posted on 07/14/2004 11:42:37 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men are ready to do violence on our behalf)
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To: Phantom Lord
Anyone else?

Could be the family of the gambler who uses the food money to gamble. The employer of the gambler who steals money. Anyone else he robs for money to gamble with. The friends he borrows from.

Why do you ask? You surely know this as well as I.

Oh well. You wanted to know who the indirect victims were, I told you. I'm done.

309 posted on 07/14/2004 11:42:49 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: Junior

Is it so well regulated?

When was the last time you searched V-22 on google, with "Strict Safe Search is On" (not the default setting) I was expecting pictures of the tilt-rotor v-22 Osprey. You might be suprised that in flipping through pages of thumbnails I found several that showed explicit acts.

Or that seaching on "Paris", still with "Strict Safe Search is On", would provide me with more visual information than I ever needed? Shall I go on?

So, I guess I can say that my future kids cannot study geography or technology. (rhetorical)

It bothers me that your apparant hardline stand on this topic seems to be more about satisfying your own worldly desires and less about the cost associated with such ready access to explicit material or protecting the innocence of the young people, which in my opinion is a very shortsighted and irresponsible perspective.

I have no problem with your freedom to choose, however I have even less problem voting for and supporting any law that provides for enough hoops for you to jump through to protect my rights and the rights of my children.

Best of luck in your indulgences.


310 posted on 07/14/2004 11:42:59 AM PDT by SanityFromTheLeftCoast (Without controversy, there is no discourse…)
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To: cherry
but just wait, as this homosexual revolution keeps rolling along, it will be everywhere, and then people like you who don't care about your own young female relatives..will be howling in protest when the porn studios start offering little cute Johnny a big part in a gay perversion film.....

I doubt any porn producer has a tough time finding performers, whether gay, straight or whatever, to "act" in their films.

You're putting words in my mouth- I certainly care about my female relatives. However, I understand that when they turn 18, there is nothing I can legally do to prevent them from becoming porn stars.

Homosexual porn is a small niche market (and I'm talking guy-guy. There's plenty of girl-girl porn out there, since straight guys like to watch it as much as lesbians do) and will remain that way. Gay men make up a couple of percent of our society. There is no reason to believe that number will ever change very much.

I would love to know how you justify your porn habits in the fact of the fact that you wouldn't want your own kid to do it....

I want my kids to do something better with their lives than become porn stars. I want my kids to do something better with their lives than be bartenders, but that doesn't stop me from getting a pint at the local watering hole.

I would not watch porn if the participants were not consenting. Howevever, any porn performer is free to quit their job at any time. I'm not making them do anything, so I have no guilt over their actions.

311 posted on 07/14/2004 11:43:55 AM PDT by Modernman ("I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members" -Groucho Marx)
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To: Junior
It has nothing to do with "obscene."

The Law says otherwise.

312 posted on 07/14/2004 11:46:12 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe (You CAN legislate morality.)
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To: Outlaw76
Northstar 'Comes out of the closet'

I think everyone in Alpha Flight saw that one coming.

Let's not get started on how gay the original Robin was. And Wonder Woman always struck me as kind of a closet lesbian.

313 posted on 07/14/2004 11:46:44 AM PDT by Modernman ("I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members" -Groucho Marx)
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To: Outlaw76; cherry; Phantom Lord
Ok, upon reflection I don't think that mentioning a comic book tied it all together very well. The artwork in most comics today, stuff our kids read by the way, is just a half a step from being porn - many would delete the 'half a step' part of that statement.

Here's why I mention it, Northstar Hero from Alpha flight and yes, X-Men:

314 posted on 07/14/2004 11:48:00 AM PDT by Outlaw76 (Citizens on the Bounce!)
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To: Outlaw76
How about Cartoons>


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315 posted on 07/14/2004 11:53:57 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
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To: SanityFromTheLeftCoast
You need to refine your searches. Try +V-22+tiltrotor for the first search.

Even if you get porn links up, you don't need to click on them. There is such a thing as "self control" and it's what separates children from adults. And I know that google gives a small text excerpt from the page in question so I'm sure you're aware of what the page contains before you click on the link.

If you're worried about what your kids are viewing online, monitor them. I shouldn't be penalized because some people are too lazy to rear their children correctly.

My "hardline stand" has more to do with personal liberty than worldly desires. I do not like people telling me what I can or cannot view, listen to, or partake of. I am an adult, damnit, no one of your immature fools in need of nanny government. I am perfectly capable of determining what I should or should not do, and while your advice may be welcome, your running roughshod over my liberties is not.

316 posted on 07/14/2004 11:57:14 AM PDT by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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To: Phantom Lord

Riiiiiight point out to me WHICH of my pics is triple XXX hardcore porno. I'll wait.


317 posted on 07/14/2004 11:58:17 AM PDT by cyborg
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To: cyborg

They need not be XXX hardcore to be porn.


318 posted on 07/14/2004 11:58:51 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
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To: robertpaulsen
Pick any crime that has been shown to have a direct association with pornography -- sexual assault, public nudity, sex with a minor, prostitution, etc.

Do you understand the difference between causation and correlation? Only anecdotal evidence (and that by rather iffy sources) links pornography to any of these crimes. If the crimes in question would have dropped regardless of the increase in porn consumption, then porn has nothing to do with these crimes, does it? I wonder if a study would show that increased porn use leads to a decrease in sexual misconduct (the partakers being too tired to actually act, possibly). Hey, the latter has as much validity as your claims, and the evidence appears to back it up.

But hey, don't let facts get in the way of your holy crusade or anything.

319 posted on 07/14/2004 12:01:37 PM PDT by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
The law says pornography's legal. Touché.

Now, please do not infringe upon my liberties or I'll have to assume you're a closet liberal.

320 posted on 07/14/2004 12:03:18 PM PDT by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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