Pictures of Lilly

[Henry M]

This is my final take on pornography (I hope): It's a bad industry
that abuses (!) all concerned, the "bon apetit" magazine of the
prostitution industry.  I believe in the fundamental virtue of 
actual sex (see Wilhelm Reich, man of whose papers, I have been given 
to understand, were burned by the US feds when he was thrown in 
jail). I don't know what the prostitution industry used to be like, 
but it looks nasty, violent, coerced without real alternatives. In 
the photos that I have seen of old porno, I don't see the abused, 
pained but otherwise unreal look that is in today's. I'm sure there 
are exceptions, but most of today's direct to video porno movies 
could be named "A Death Foretold". Sure, the ad industry and much of 
the entertainment industry, sell sex, but (aside from many of the 
models looking to skinny) the "talent" doesn't look abused. When I 
was a kid, I created a photo montage on my wall; many of the pictures 
were of women who I found attractive, but only one or two of 'em were 
from a porno mag (I think it was Oui).

Steely, you're a man of the world. Ever been to Bangkok? You're not 
gonna put down a city/industry that provides pleasure for so many 
men; and puts rice on the table and a form of expression that should 
be protected by first amendment rights, for so many working girls, 
are ya? Now that I think about it, even if we thought these things 
were wrong for the USA, wouldn't it be imperialistic of us to try to 
return these people to being, once again, "the noble" Asian?

Enjoyed your list, Adam, (really! amusing and thought provoking) but 
it was nothing like mine. No mention of my favorites. Photos of:

feet

drug-addict silicone life forms bursting at the seems (that stupid 
slut)

lesbians (I imagine, yes even I have an imagination, pulling them 
away from eachother, or not, and having one of'em)

nurses

school girls

stewardesses

any young woman tied-up (yeah, even the fat pigs deserve a good rape 
once in a while)

you get the picture
Sic(k) 




On 26 Jan 97 at 9:44, pynchon-l at waste.org wrote:

> ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
> From:          "Adam J. Thornton" <adam at phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
> Subject:       Re: Harper Valley PTA Report
> To:            gravity at nicom.com (Henry M)
> Date:          Sun, 26 Jan 1997 01:39:13 -0500 (EST)
> 
> > Any guy who can't jerk-off without a photograph in front of him
> > needs help. <semi-smirk>
> 
> Sometimes it's nice for a change, though, to have grainy "I think
> you can see her *kidneys*" photographs, for those times when a)
> _Delta of Venus_ b) _Opus Pistorum_ c) _Justine_ d) _Gravity's
> Rainbow_ e) Dali's _Leda Atomica_ f) Von Bayrosian sketches of
> Scorpia Mossmoonesque women g) a pair of the Lust Objects'
> recently-worn and unwashed panties h) an active imagination i) tekka
> maki j) _Crash!_ k) _The 1812 Overture_ l) Tori Amos's _Icicle_ m) A
> recording of the 1959 Grand Prix at Seagrave n) _Client-Server
> Programming For Dummies_ o) Aretino's Sonnets p) _Macho Sluts_ q) an
> alpaca-fur rug r) _Fanny Hill_ s) _Lady Chatterly's Lover_ t) _My
> Secret Life_ u) detailed tactical maps of the Battle of the Bulge v)
> _At The Mountains of Madness_ w) the cloying meretricious hothouse
> perfumed stench of decaying orchids x) White Castle cheeseburgers y)
> Krispy Kreme doughnuts 
>  -or-
> z) _Love Is A Dog From Hell_
> 
> all prove to be not quite enough.  Different strokes for, er,
> different strokes.  De gustibus non est disputandum.  I'll be quite
> upset if Henry--or anyone--purports to tell me which of the above
> items I may or may not appropriately consider an erotic stimulus.
> 
> Adam

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