Pornography
Mark Wright AIA
mwaia at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 6 12:49:15 CST 2000
Howdy
Recall in this connection Pirate Prentice's revelation regarding the
thoroughness of the Firm's dossier on him.
--- DudiousMax at aol.com wrote:
(snip_Maybe it is cynical market building on his part. Maybe
> he is
> suggesting we are all hard-wired soft-machines. That the notion of
> "the
> penis he thought was his own," is common to all of us, our sexual
> preferences
> an accident of early conditioning, not necessarily nefarious. In any
> event,
> the penis mightier than the sword, or the basic biological drives are
> very
> strong, no matter on what they're focused. We are all in it
> together. IMHO
> that's what he's saying on one level.
> Then again, as a satirist (a posture that presumes a
> commonly
> held moral landscape), maybe he is holding some of our sexual
> behaviors up to
> ridicule as Dante does in his Inferno.(snip)
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