A portable pornograph

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Don notes, rightly, IMO:
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>This argument will not be settled here, but let's keep in mind not
> only the erotic/pornographic/sadomasochistic scenes of GR, but the direct
>role that pornography plays in regard to Greta Erdmann and Pokler and
>its relation to film and calculus (both "pornographies of flight").

Just to second Don's reference to the various pornographies GR attends to, and to 
note--hey, is this porno discussion a *progressive knotting into* or what?  It gets harder 
and harder to follow the thread, esp. when the thread is muddied up w/ personal 
attacks--real or imagined.  I have nothing constructive to offer, just a coupla questions: is 
that erotica engraved on Keats' urn pornography?  Is that poem *sexist*?  Are the erotic 
mosaics found at Pompeii examples of male oppresion? What about that Kama Sutra? 
Why does Sade get both Chris and me hot?  Why am I  frightened of McKinnon, Dworkin 
et al?  Why have I never found the least interest in Hustler, yet have been known to 
peruse the occasional Puritan?

john (as flaccid as can be right now) m