Re Sexual descriptions

David Casseres casseres at apple.com
Mon Jan 20 13:15:54 CST 1997


>Many of these bannings were attributed to "obscenity" or 
>"pornography", though the real motive was political. I've always 
>suspected that _GR_ was one of these.

And that's why, even when I find pornography offensive, I think it 
vitally necessary to resist the idea that freedom of speech should not 
apply to pornography.  It's often much too easy to define political 
material as "pornographic" or "obscene."


Cheers,
David




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