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To: Chemist_Geek
Pornography is a dead-end, but it's better than dealing with the average American woman of today.

And don't think for 1 minute that the producers of Porn don't know this as there has been a resurgence in porn of seeing the bitch do anything you want. Porn actresses are plucked from the ranks of strippers, who take their act one step further for viewers who in real life would not stand a chance getting in their pants. Some of us would never want to anyway and prefer paying them to be as nasty as we want. All of this feeds on itself in an neverending loop.

In the Apollonian-Dionysian worlds Pornography stands in the shadows while in the lihght of everyday we are constantly exposed to softcore porn as well as the hyper sexualisation of young people.

Where's the outrage? Railing against a regulated and small niche outlet is a form of masturbation while the larger issue of hypersexualised Abercrombie and Fitch marketing goes on relentlessly.

318 posted on 06/18/2002 11:08:40 AM PDT by Helms
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To: Helms

In the Apollonian-Dionysian worlds Pornography stands in the shadows while in the lihght of everyday we are constantly exposed to softcore porn as well as the hyper sexualisation of young people.

Where's the outrage? Railing against a regulated and small niche outlet is a form of masturbation while the larger issue of hypersexualised Abercrombie and Fitch marketing goes on relentlessly.

Here, I think is the real problem. Both the Abercrombie-Fitch catalog and Internet pornography, while issues themselves, are symptoms of the oversexualization in American society. Another was the years long discussion of whether two fictional characters, Scully and Mulder, who were co-workers at the FBI in the series "X-Files," would engage in a romantic or sexual relationship.

Historically, children were married young, and connsumations were also young, ca. 12, 13 years old. It was important in the past to get the next generation born, due to the historically short human lifespan. We now though have a much better medical care and there is no need to start families as young as in the past. Unfortunately, biology hasn't caught up to medicine, and teenagers are intrinsically sexualized. But that's not the real problem; children are exposed and sexualized nowadays, rather than being shielded as in the recent past. (I should note that they were not shielded from that as much in the more distant past.)

So, what's the solution? Reintroducing modesty and shame into American society is a good goal, but how?

322 posted on 06/18/2002 12:16:15 PM PDT by Chemist_Geek
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