Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 9/27/83; site hplabsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hplabsc!labelle From: labelle@hplabsc.UUCP (WB6YZZ La Belle) Newsgroups: net.singles,net.women Subject: Women's bodies (reposted per request) Message-ID: <2058@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Aug-84 16:20:25 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsc.2058 Posted: Wed Aug 1 16:20:25 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 01:37:26 EDT Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 41 >>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