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Sandi: People say to me "Gay film? Porn, right?" No, but more sensual than Longtime Companion. The films we've chosen are on the cutting edge of cultural expression...
...Pornography currently has more protection than women do," MacKinnon told the statehouse committee considering the Massachusetts bill. In corroboration, several witnesses gave chilling testimony of being sexually abused by husbands and boyfriends who admitted that they had been prompted by porn films or magazines. Fighting back tears, Pat Haas, of Brookline, Mass., said she had been beaten by her boyfriend, who forced her to act out scenes from pornography. "He did what was in the movies," says Haas. "If he had seen a snuff film, I wouldn't be here." Under the proposed antipornography civil rights bill, victims like Haas...
...whose members include such noted writers as Betty Friedan, Nora Ephron and Erica Jong. In a Valentine's Day letter to the Judiciary Committee, the group argued that S 1521 is a "logical and legal muddle" that "scapegoats speech as a substitute for action against violence" and "reinforces the 'porn made me do it' excuse for rapists and batterers...
...cause of female subordination and ignore the reality that woman-hating psychopaths have more often cited the Bible as inspiration. Beyond that, advocates of the antiporn bills seem blithely indifferent to the crippling cultural impact of legislation that places so much emphasis on the subjective views of crime victims. Porn, like beauty, may be in the beholder's eye. But it is a bad perspective for building good...
...just-the-facts-Ma'am summary of their conversation would go like this: she fantasizes about having sex with three house painters, while he tells her how he and an office co-worker sat in his apartment, covered by a blanket, and silently, separately masturbated to a porn film...