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SENATOR BOB PACKWOOD IS A PRIME example of corruption, deviant sexual conduct and abuse of power. His forced resignation from the Senate on ethical charges should not have taken so long [THE SENATE, Sept. 18]. Packwood no more deserves the rewards of being an ex-Senator than his victims deserved to be accosted by him. LAURIE JANAK MAREK Shiner, Texas
...core sex pictures are so widely available elsewhere, the adult BBS market seems to be driven largely by a demand for images that can't be found in the average magazine rack: pedophilia (nude photos of children), hebephilia (youths) and what the researchers call paraphilia--a grab bag of "deviant" material that includes images of bondage, sadomasochism, urination, defecation, and sex acts with a barnyard full of animals...
...Sorry. "No Menu Man? Crestfallen, I couldn't summon verbal capacity for at least two minutes. Probably embarrassed for me, Berry broke the silence by explaining. "We don't want to expose his true identity." When I told Berry that FM wasn't interested in such deviant behavior, and that the knowledge would be detrimental to my own well-being, Berry acquiesced. Berry arranged to have Menu Man in his office at 11:00 the next morning, at which time I was to call the office and engage in real conversation with...
That The Crimson chose to focus upon a certain group and condemn its behaviors as deviant seems to us to be rather arbitrary and, quite frankly, elitist. Students at Harvard choose to organize themselves in a myriad of different ways' The Crimson disputes few of them. Why single out The Resistance for Criticism...
...YOUR STORY ON CORRUPTION IN THE New Orleans police force [Crime, March 20], you imply that the reason police officer Antoinette Frank killed three people was that she was overworked and underpaid. But that cannot be the reason for triple murder. Here is another example of deviant behavior being "defined down'' to manageable proportions, affording Frank "victim'' status, rationalizing her heinous crime and making it more acceptable. She made a conscious choice to commit murder. She is responsible for that choice, and not the police, however corrupt...