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...women and women live and love. The arts are supposed to reflect life and love. Film is supposed to be one of the arts. But for most of film history the depiction of sexual acts was forbidden; and in the past decade it has become the province of the porno film, where sex is a dirty joke shared by performer and spectator. There are, of course, reasons beyond prudery for the resistance to explicit sex in mainstream movies. Film is still seen as a form of photography, and thus a medium of reporting: what you see is what there...
...vigorously opposed running the Screw ad. But I also oppose the majority's sweeping and rigidly determinist condemnation of advertising as an outgrowth of capitalism. Of course exploitation of women is to be deplored. Perhaps for porno to be eradicated citizens will have to be taught or forced to be free, but advertising columns are as important as editorial columns in the educational process...
...decided neither to accept the advertiser's money nor to give him space. Among these ads was an order-blank for the South African government's Krugerrand gold coins, a solicitation for Radcliffe women to pose nude for Playboy magazine, and a subscription blank for Bang magazine, another porno publication. This month the Crimson voted to reject a subscription ad from Screw magazine, which its representative described to us as "only a little more hard-core than Hustler...
...refusing ads for porno magazines, The Crimson is setting itself up as a prudish censor. Screw offends not for its depiction of sexually explicit subjects--which have, on occasion, appeared in The Crimson and do not in themselves offend us--but for its promotion of sexual exploitation. There is a critical and easily discernible distinction between the two; and until society and its institutions, like The Crimson, learn to draw it better, both equality between the sexes and a healthy attitude towards sexuality will remain unattainable...
...sinister motorcycle shop. The other 50% is owned by an Indian girl called Mits. A renegade biker leads Travis to a drugged producer filming balloon races. On location, he narrowly escapes a mob attack on the crew-seems the technicians had been using local teenagers for a series of porno video tapes. Predictably, their leader, a villain named Dirty Bob, manages to slip through some elaborate defenses and tracks McGee to his opulent houseboat, the Busted Flush. The result is one of MacDonald's King Kong vs. Godzilla confrontations that deliver a soul-satisfying amalgam of mayhem and justice...