Dear Mike,
Thanks for your comments.Though the sonnet is written in a humorous way, I
was trying to address a serious issue, which isn't just confined to
pornography. I think we have all been sometimes surprised at the way we
respond to certain things -for instance violent images. I feel, for
instance, that I shouldn't really enjoy gruesome stuff like Silence of the
Lambs and Seven, but I do, and I recall a friend telling me guiltily that he
had watched one of those dreadful Mondo films (which are collections of
real-life horrors, like footage of an unwary tourist being eaten by a lion),
feeling all the way through that he should switch off the tape, but being
too fascinated to do so.
In other words, our basic reactions aren't always p.c., or what we expect of
ourselves.
My own feeling about the dangers of pornography doesn't concern the size
or strength of our reaction to the stimulus, but the nature of the stimulus.
If we're turned on by watching someone else experiencing pleasure -that
seems fine to me- it's when we are excited by cruelty or humiliation or
violence or non-consent that there's a problem.
Kind regards,
grasshopper
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Horwood" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [THE-WORKS] : The Woman's Circle (strong language warning)
Hello Grasshopper,
Very neatly done. It reminds me of a couple of reports I
vaguely remember reading years ago. One involved Lord Longford ( I think)
who had attempted to analyse the qualitative effect of pornography by
measuring the size of the observer´s erection. I think the conclusion was
the greater the erection, the more damaging the pornography. The second
involved some bishop who gave evidence at a pornography trial in which he
swore that exposure to the item in question had had a corrupting influence
on his morals. This sex thing really is full of problems, isn´t it?
Best wishes, Mike
--- Alkuperäinen viesti ---
Strong language warning....
The Woman's Circle
Faith takes the chair, and switches off her phone,
'First, gifts for our poor sisters overseas:
Joy has donated three warm wraps, and Joan,
a book entitled 'Women: Off Your Knees! '
Amanda checks her hair, Sue clears her plate
and Caitlin thrums her throat to signal hush:
'Anent last months pornography debate
I'll show a tape to illustrate this trash.'
Faith views the tilting pricks and shaven groins,
tuts with the others at the sordid scene,
the squalid pumping of the actors' loins.
Stern-faced she watches like a widowed queen
and feels with pique, as personal affront,
the creeping liquefaction of her cunt.
grasshopper
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