Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site randvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!edhall From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall) Newsgroups: net.singles,net.women Subject: Re: Women's bodies Message-ID: <1876@randvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Aug-84 15:42:44 EDT Article-I.D.: randvax.1876 Posted: Sat Aug 11 15:42:44 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 01:12:32 EDT References: <2058@hplabsc.UUCP>, <350@deepthot.UUCP> Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 21 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 decvax!randvax!edhall