Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!joy From: joy@mit-vax.UUCP (Joy Hoppe) Newsgroups: net.singles,net.women Subject: Objectification & Penthouse Message-ID: <2687@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 12:17:54 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.2687 Posted: Thu Aug 2 12:17:54 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 00:57:09 EDT Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 17 For he who asked why the pictures in magazines like _Penthouse_ or (say) _Hustler_ are degrading, etc...... I believe one of the main objections is that PARTS (not the whole) of the female anatomy are shown, especially in _Hustler_, and many people knowledgeable in psychology, etc., think that this helps to dehumanize a man's view of a woman. Allows him to think of her as just a set of breasts, legs, whatever part appeals to him: not as a person with feelings. Let me state, for the record, that I believe that these magazines should have the right to print what they will. And that the women/men who pose for them should not be deprived of their opportunity to do so, providing they do so of their own free will. joy