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From: labelle@hplabsc.UUCP (WB6YZZ La Belle)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.women
Subject: Women's bodies (reposted per request)
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Date: Wed, 1-Aug-84 16:20:25 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  1 16:20:25 1984
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  >>Why don't these women use their brains instead of their bodies?

Because their bodies are worth more than their brains!

  >>I believe that BOTH beauty contests AND posing nude for porn mags
  >>are degrading for women and they depict women as nothing more
  >>than flesh... blah blah blah

I'm really getting tired of hearing this old line. "Woman poses nude
 derades all of womanhood." Or "Woman shows body- now all women are
 just bodies" et. etc. ad nauseum.

When are you going to grow up? Sounds like you have a bad case of "Trish
 syndrome". There are (believe it or not) a lot of men out there who are 
 intelligent, warm, loving human beings, who obtain pleasure from
 looking at "pornographic" pictures with NO INTENTION OR FEELING OF
 "degradation" at all! If a man looks at a nude womans body and he is
 a normal, open minded, heterosexual male- most of the time he will
 be turned on. SO WHAT? It's called an instinctual reaction. Do you
 always think of love, personality, or brains RIGHT AT THE POINT OF
 ORGASM? I doubt it. We are civilized ANIMALS. You can lust after
 someone and STILL respect them as a person!                

Try it - you'll like it

Now, before I'm misunderstood regarding body and brains, If you have
 an open mind towards sex for what it is or can be, and a beautifull
 body that men are willing to pay to see- whats wrong with selling the 
 pictures?  Bodies in this society are worth more than brains in 
 many ways AND for men to! Tell me a profession in which Larry Holmes
 (heavy weight champion) could have made 10 million dollars
 in one evening using his brain? The minimum wage in the NFL is
 now $50,000. Do you make that much? What do school teachers make?


                         GEORGE