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- From: josh@cqs.washington.edu (Josh Hayes)
- Subject: What is pornography, anyway?
- Message-ID: <josh.721618381@mowgli>
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- Organization: University of Washington
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 01:33:01 GMT
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- It's been driving me batty: I KNOW the supremes had a three-part
- test for pornography, but I can only remember two parts of it:
-
- 1) Prurient nature, and
- 2) Totally without redeeming social value, but
-
- what's the third one?
-
- Of course, the old saw is "I dunno what it is, but I knows it
- when I sees it".
-
- And, to justify posting this, does the test have any relevance
- for the issue at hand? It seems like a lot of people are, at
- base, disagreeing on the NATURE of the material. Not having
- seen it, I cannot comment on its qualification as "pornography".
- Since our site no longer carries the a.b.p. hierarchy, I'm not
- GONNA see it. And I don't care to, either. But does it pass, or
- fail, the test?
-
- Josh
-
- --
- Josh Hayes, Quantitative Sciences HR-20 U of Washington
- josh@mowgli.cqs.washington.edu 206 543-5004
- Let's talk about your car. It's screaming, "Wash me please!"
-