Posted on 12/10/2002 10:40:17 AM PST by Helms
Tearing Down an Important Firewall of Culture
For those on FR who are sympathetic to porn as a necessary outlet (and I am one) this is scary and tacky.
Feminisists are silent while pop culture adores a school slut by the name of Brittany Spears. Remember"American Beauty"? What wont girls do to be popular, eh?
In the words of Roger Waters in Amused to Death and In The Flesh..."oh Western Woman, Western girl....'
With digital camcorders now shot on and with high end television resolutions , pornography has become a very very graphic business- up close and personal. Its is also a drug of choice, downloadeable to desktops and TV sets via Time Warner ( ie, Larry Flynts "Barely Legal").
Chatsworth California, the home of porn, has been trying to stick itself into the mainstream. Charly Sheen, Ron Jermy, etc.through the back doors of Hollywood. Porn likes the back door.
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com)- College presidents beware: An adult film company could be headed to your campus.
That is the message Indiana University is sending after Los Angeles-based Shane Enterprises, maker of "Shane's World" videos, showed up at the Bloomington campus in early October to tape a segment for a sex movie.
The university also has a message for Shane Enterprises executives -- if the company's film stars ever set foot on campus again, they could be charged with trespassing.
That threat does not scare the adult film company, which caters to a college audience by filming student sex acts. A publicist said the company has no plans to alter its business practices and it would not hesitate to visit another college campus in the future.
"We've already had several e-mails from students at various colleges inviting us," said Calli Cox, a Shane Enterprises spokeswoman and adult film actress. "We have nothing planned, but if the situation arises and someone wants us to come, we're definitely going to do it."
Indiana University spokeswoman Jane Jankowski said Cox should stay away or face possible criminal charges.
"We notified them that if their company came back to campus, we would consider that trespassing," Jankowski said. "We have an open campus, but we have a policy that requires permission for any company that wants to film a movie or do some sort of taping. It's very clear that did not happen in this case."
Shane Enterprises has riled campus administrators with the production of two recent films. "Shane's World No. 32: Campus Invasion," featuring Indiana University students, will be released next week. But even before it was taped, Arizona State University was reprimanding students for their involvement in "Shane's World No. 29: Frat Row Scavenger Hunt 3."
Four on-campus fraternities in Tempe were involved in the production of the video, which was taped in July. Following a university investigation in September, two fraternities were suspended, one was placed on probation and another left campus as a result of an earlier violation.
"The actions of the Arizona State University students who participated in -- or tolerated -- the making of a sexually explicit video in several ASU fraternities constitute behavior that is completely and utterly unacceptable," the university's president, Michael Crow, said in a statement.
Indiana University Chancellor Sharon Stephens Brehm took a similar stance. She condemned the taping in a statement released Friday, and announced that at least two students could be brought up on campus judicial charges.
"These were deplorable actions by a company intent on exploiting the university and our students," Brehm said. "These are sexual predators whose behavior violates all basic principles of common decency."
Between 20 and 30 students signed releases to appear in the flick, which was filmed mostly at private locations off campus. But one scene, shot in a campus dormitory, has generated a bundle of attention. L
Of the two students now facing disciplinary action from the university, one allegedly let the crew into the dorm and another allegedly participated in a sex act in a public area, according to a university statement.
Cox maintains the company did nothing wrong. She said the company did not trespass since the school is located on public land and the camera crew only entered the dorm after being invited by students. When a staff member confronted them, Cox said the crew left immediately.
"We feel bad for any students who are going to receive disciplinary action for the things they did behind closed doors in the privacy of their own rooms," she said. "They are adults and they've made adult decisions. It's not the university's responsibility to monitor what goes on in the private lives of students."
Theresa Hennessey, spokeswoman for Playboy Enterprises, echoed that sentiment. She said her company's famed magazine has faced the same type of criticism for its annual college issue. Many of those concerns were aired in the spring when Playboy was holding photo shoots.
The annual issue came out in October and is among Playboy's biggest sellers, Hennessey said.
"The schools really shouldn't be controlling what the students do in their free time," she said. "Everything was conducted off campus, so it wasn't interfering with schoolwork or the university. The girls are free to do what they want."
"College students have sex anyway," Cox added. "That's something that occurs. There's definitely a market to produce adult videos for that age group."
Even if that is the case, Indiana University hopes other schools can avoid controversy by taking steps in advance.
"We hope that other campuses will be aware," Jankowski said. "Somebody else could be next, so just have your antenna up if there are people who look out of place on your campus."
Oh you mean Jack's older brother.
So is an open empty container of alcohol OR any thing that might contain Alcohol. (cough syrup)
Because you can go and find some arcane, out of context laws, does not demean the validy of my point.
The thwarting of a law no matter how valid it may or may not be is in itself irresponsible...that's the point!
I can not remember what state this was in, but a few years back a state passed a law outlawing open containers of alcohol, even if empty in automobiles. A problem came up with the law because the state also had a bottle/can deposit and thus, people were breaking the open container law when they returned the cans for their deposit.
You would think that the politicians would have been smart enough to take this into consideration when writing the law. But then again, were talking about politicians.
Thats not what the law said. And you know it. Your super stretch is signs that you know you have been proven wrong.
How? Are you so sure you know the law?
Look, if you choose to ignor my central point then that is your progative, but do not patronize and trivialize what theme we are exploring. Most laws are established to protect us. If you PURPOSLY break a law you are by definition ignoring and irresponsibly condensending a state of affair.
This is a purely selfish act!
I am not advocating NOT standing up for what you believe, or trying to say DO NOT to change ridiculous laws.
I never implied laws are "good, caring, moral, and beneficial to society."
I said breaking the laws are bad, selfish, and uncaring.
"We feel bad for any students who are going to receive disciplinary action for the things they did behind closed doors in the privacy of their own rooms," she said. "They are adults and they've made adult decisions. It's not the university's responsibility to monitor what goes on in the private lives of students."
Specious reasoning at best, and probably factually incorrect in every respect:
"Public land"? True but irrelevant. State parks and government office buildings aren't restriction-free zones, for example.
"invited by students"? It's really the University's room -- the student is just a renter. Again, to say that the university has no right to deny unrestricted access to their own buildings is simply false.
"not the university's responsibility"? We all know how quickly a University would be named as a defendant in a civil trial if a student is raped in her dorm room, falls off a balcony, etc.
I look at this as a question of what a property owner allows on his property. The fact that it's the state rather than in individual is irrevalant IMO.
I had writen a superlative response to this, but my puter locked up and I lost it...Here is the gist of what I wrote you....
All the things can cause accidents that are in themselve selfish acts by merely ignoring the law? What if someone gets killed because of an asinine Jaywalker...I have known for it to have happened three times!
How many times do you hear of someone speeding, losing control of their vehicle and plowing into the mother with the newborn killing her and the baby....
Do you see my point?
As ISPs upgrade their equipment to accommodate the vast amount of bandwidth porn requires, they buy routers from Cisco Systems and 3Com. Porn webmasters pick up superfast servers from Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics. Search engines like Yahoo and Altavista reap ad revenue from banner ads and collect hits by providing easy access to porn. Porn surfers buy DSL lines or cable modems from Excite@Home, Covad Communications, Northpoint Communications and Pac Bell.
Perhaps most directly profiting from porn traffic are Silicon Valley's huge ISPs that provide server space, connectivity and bandwidth to the most visited porn sites on the web...
No pun intended of course.....
I realize what you are trying to imply, however we can not have anarchy and vigilantism as would be the case.
I do consider Abortion definately an unjust law and one day may fight the murderers of such evil acts, but if I choose to ignor what has been put in place as a free society and hold people against their will to have an abortion I have done just what I have defined as irresponsible.
You must have the accountablity to abide by current law and with the means if necessary, try your best to peaceful change people's hearts.
Well, to all fat ugly guys who have a nine-incher and/or can lick it themselves, yeah...
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