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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.women
Subject: Re: Women's bodies
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Date: Sat, 11-Aug-84 15:42:44 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 11 15:42:44 1984
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Soft porn makes people more friendly to violence and infidelity?

I'm not surprised at all, as I suspect most people would agree that
sexual arousal increases the capacity for aggression (in either sex).
Let's be honest with ourselves.  If we're sexually aroused, aren't we
more likely to consider sex with the first receptive person around than
when we aren't?  And, at least to those who are conditioned to feel it
is an acceptable form of aggression, wouldn't a bit of force in
satisfying that arousal seem OK?  The problem is not with the soft porn,
per se, but in certain culturally-determined ways of dealing with sexual
arousal.

Thus, if we are to do something about this problem, perhaps we should
ban sexual arousal in public.     [:-), if you haven't guessed]

I think that the people who did the study should have looked a bit
more carefully at just what it was they were studying.  Soft porn
is just one of many stimuli for the effect they were measuring.

		-Ed Hall
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