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...Good Laugh The exchange of jokes is unfiltered and thus occasionally unfunny in the rec.humor newsgroup. A finer repertoire, or so it is said, is in alt.humor.best-of-usenet, which is monitored...
...started in early December, when Baker composed three sexual fantasies and posted them on alt.sex.stories, a newsgroup on the Usenet computer network that is distributed via the Internet. Even by the standards of alt.sex.stories, which is infamous for explicit depictions of all sorts of sex acts, Baker's material is strong stuff. Women (and young girls) in his stories are kidnapped, sodomized, mutilated and left to die by men who exhibit no remorse. Baker even seemed to take pleasure in the behavior of his protagonists and the suffering of their victims. "Torture is foreplay," he wrote in the introduction...
Baker's real name is Abraham Jacob Alkhabaz. In December and early January, he posted several pornographic stories he had written on the newsgroup `alt.sex.stories.' This newsgroup is available all over the world through the Internet--a global data communications network...
...newsgroup is known on the Internet for its explicit and graphic descriptions of sex acts, such as incest, rape and torture. But Baker's stories were extreme even for the newsgroup, according to readers who discussed the case in about 300 posts on that newsgroup alone...
...awful as the story was, Baker was well within his rights to publish it on the newsgroup, according to legal experts such as Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz...