[mailbox What about OTHERS’ rights? Dear Editor: So, the local porno shop thinks we should protect our basic rights and freedom of choice. I agree totally. towards positions of true influence and self-control — a movement that frightens not for what it is fighting against, but because of what objects, lying semi-nude on a bus advertisement, selling . what? Stereos or sex? Or, Pieces of meat tied and chained to a chair to be It is truly sad that the sexual revolution of the 60s has landed us in the obscene world of pornography (sex with a message of violence, A7 - Wednesday, June 30, 1982 - North Shore News , KENNEDY ( McDONALD MEN’S WEAR “THE FINEST IN MEN’S APPAREL" SUMMER SALE SUITS — SPORT JACKETS ULTRA SUEDES — SHIRTS Our mght in a com- itis fighting for. beaten and raped and dominance and = conquest 20 % off munity not to be pulled into protrayed as enjoying it? used to reinforce and create the gutter. By association, The freedom of a This damaging sexism’ inequality; expressing pain through the blatant = society to exist free of fear permeates our society, in and humiliation as pleasure), promotion of materials for and by its women and varying degrees. It is in- and not erotica ( a mutually 765 Park Royal North Mall depicting the degradation, children. Hundreds of sex creasing with mass media, pleasurable, sensual, sexual and often maliciously violent offenders were asked if technological evolution, and expression between people on West Vancouver 926-0121 abasement of women and exposure to pornography is becoming more and more’ who have enough power to children. ... The mghts of half the population not to be viewed constantly as mere objects whose perceived purpose of existence is to gratify the had influenced their crimes. Half of them said they had been inspired by por- nography. That study took place in the 70s — before video, when the turn-on was violent as is witnessed by a random sampling of video tapes legally promoted to everyone over 19. My son is 15 and has had _ proven access to it. be involved through choice, not requiring identification with conqueror or victim.) There is an_ obvious question in many minds in relation to this issue. Why do appetites of this power- breasts and thighs, not vulva We are destroying the women get involved in the dominated society. The and whips. potential of our society by production of such current glut of pornography And ... what choice? Does destroying the humanness of matenals? First, we are is surely a backlash against fifty per cent of the one half of it the half encouraged, from birth, to the women’s movement — a population choose to be known as chicks, birds, view ourselves as physical slow and arduous movement exploited as mere physical broads and fillies. 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