Re Sexual descriptions
Craig Clark
CLARK at SHEPFS2.UND.AC.ZA
Wed Jan 22 09:03:44 CST 1997
David Casseres <casseres at apple.com> writes:
> 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....
The Forman film has not made it to SA yet, but I am dismayed to hear
Flynt canonised as anything other than a pornographer. The Flynts of
this world also are outraged when anti-pornography protestors
exercise *their* right to freedom of speech. Even to register a
protest against pornography is equivalent, it would seem, to calling
for censorship....
Craig Clark
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