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D Agreed. I was interested in the resounding silence that greeted the piece.. regards sdv Deborah Knight wrote: > Karl Carlile <[log in to unmask]> recently circulated an essay on The > Internet and pornography. I don't usually respond to these salvoes, and > don't want to get involved in a debate, but speaking from CSE/Capital and > Class office - and as a female socialist - I want respond to a few points > he made: > > >.....The entire bourgeois strategy is to build up a bad press for the > >internet exaggerating the presence of pornography. > > No, the amount of porn on the Net is growing all the time, as anyone who > uses the Net must know. As an example, CSE/Capital and Class (hardly a > prime target for pornographers) never used to receive 'invitations' to porn > sites, now we get about one a week. Recently on the web, while entering a > competition in a men's 'lifestyle' (non-porn) magazine, the page > disappeared and I found images floating across the screen, inviting me to > join the Voyeur's network and giving me a few samplers. Talking to people > this does happen on certain sites - they get 'bombed' from outside - so you > are offered stuff you never sought. > > >Contained in the debate is the false suggestion that pornography can be > >eliminated through censorship. > >... the best means of encouraging pornography. Censorship drives > >pornography underground making it a > >less accessible commodity and consequently raising its price. > > Nobody thinks censorship eliminates pornography. But mass availibilty > legitimises it as a means of employment (or low income subsidy, like casual > prostitution) for working class women, immigrants etc., while restricting > access means people who don't want to see it don't have to, and those who > do will have to work a little harder to find it. Raising its price? Good - > let them pay for their habit! > > Deborah Knight > CSE/Capital & Class Business Manager > > 25 Horsell Road > London N5 1XL > (Tel/fax: 0207 607 9615 > website: www.cseweb.org.uk)