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>2) A high percentage of all sex crimes (rape, child abuse, etc.) have
>pornography involved, during and/or immediately before.  For example,
>Ted Bundy indicating in an interview before his death that pornography
>played a extremely important role in the rapes and murders he
>committed.

I knew when I read that about Bundy several years ago, it would pop in
anti-porn arguments.  I just don't buy it. I'll bet they all drank milk when
they were young, too. It's another case where 99.9% of those exposed to this
stuff would NOT go out and rape someone.
>3) Studies also indicate that the use of pornography tends to reduce a
>persons satisfaction with their current sex experience.

Well, I will admit that nothing in my life even APPROACHES "Behind the Green 
Door". Lots more love, but nowheres near the gymnastics or group participatioin
level.

>4) Child pornography, in particular, is very damaging to the children
>abused during the making of the material.

I am very much a Freedom of Speech defender when it comes to pornography, but I
would buy censorship when it involves children. They do not have the faculties
to make an informed decision regarding participation. But what about those
adults who still look like adolescents, and pose as children in pseudo kiddie
porn?

>5) Studies indicate that pornography is addicting, with subjects
>tiring of the "old" and wanting "newer, harder" pornography.
>
Addicting?  If it's pleasurable, of course people go back for more.  Tire of 
the old? I read once where bulls out to stud tire of the cow they have after X 
attempts. But give them a new cow, and they're ready to go again.  When love is
not part of the equation, we're talking abaout a physical activity that one 
either gets too tired for, or one gets bored with (pardon the grammar).


>Obviously no one is saying that by looking at one Playboy magazine a
>person will become an instant rapist.  However, there is overwhelming
>evidence to indicate that continued exposure to pornography is harmful
>to individuals and society.  I have more complete information about
>some of the studies dome on the effects of pornography at home which I
>can post if there is interest.  One good reference is the report from
>the President's Commission on Pornography.
>
Gosh, you were sounding so reasonable, and then you go and cite the President's
Commission on Pornography.  A bunch of up-tight, old Republicans who think tht 
anything other than the missionary position is a sin, who probably do it with 
the lights off, and who have never seen their spouses naked in 30 years of 
marriage.  There hasn't been a commission with such a pre-ordained conclusion 
since the Warren Commission investigated WHY (not if, but why) Lee Harvey
Oswald shot Kennedy.

What I ought to do is give you all the complete lyrics to Tom Lehrer's
satyrical classic, "Smut".  I'll settle for just a few.  Keep in mind this song
is closing in on 30 years old, and you have to remember a little bit of history
to appreciate the wit.
   "As the judge remarked the day that he acquitted my Aunt Hortense,
    To be smut it must be  utterly without redeeming social importance."

Any other Tom Lehrer fans out there?