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To: Mrs. Don-o
Interesting point. I don't know of anyone who would seek to censor or prohibit my work. It is far (REALLY far) from what anybody would call legally pornographic.

Well, see, therein lies the rub. There are those---many who post on FR, by the way---who see no distinction between pornography and obscenity (i.e., that which doesn't enjoy 1st Amendment protection), and would ban your work outright. What might be mildly erotic to you would be outright obscenity to others, and you would have no market, and no artistic voice whatsoever, if they had their druthers. When you make blanket statements like "all pornography is destructive," you give those folks all the ammunition they need to carry the day.

45 posted on 06/10/2005 7:45:20 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
distinction between pornography and obscenity

Can you describe the difference?

47 posted on 06/10/2005 8:21:56 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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