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

"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"



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