Pornography, calculus, cinema, metaphor

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Maybe this is what TRP is getting at in the Lake, Deuce, and Sloat at Four Corners episode.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: mikebailey at speakeasy.net

>
>Rather than elaborate exactly what units (heh heh) the axes of a
>"sexual encounter" graph would be measured in (I agree with Monte 
>that a strict or humorless application of the terms of comparison 
>probably interferes with the ludic sense of the metaphor) I think
>the easy, happy and most correct notion is that just as calculus
>lets you think about a rocket's flight without actually launching
>one...just so, mutatis mutandis with porn.