Re Sexual descriptions

David Casseres casseres at apple.com
Tue Jan 21 16:23:17 CST 1997


Craig Clark sez

>... 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...

Indeed.  Meanwhile, over here we have Milos Forman trying to canonize the 
pornographer Larry Flynt as a defender of free speech, when in fact Flynt 
never did diddly-squat about anyone else's right to free speech, and made 
it pretty clear that he has no principles at all except making money on 
pornography.  Such is the burden civil libertarians have to bear....



Cheers,
David




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