Re Sexual descriptions

[Craig Clark]

 David Casseres <casseres at apple.com> writes:

> 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."

I agree completely with what David says: there are other ways to 
oppose pornography than censorship. However, one of the wierdest 
things about the "New South Africa" has been the explosion of 
pornography, with about a zillion magazine editors interpreting the 
right to freedom of speech as the right to practice photographic 
gynaecology. What is most risible is to hear how strenuously they 
defend the right of all South Africans to freedom of speech. Now 
where the hell were these guys back ten years ago, when even 
_National Geographic_ was banned for an article which suggested that 
the "indepenbdent homelands" weren't paradise? Pity they weren't so 
fearless in their defense of freedom of speech back then...

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"