twiss@stolaf.UUCP (Thomas S. Twiss) (03/03/84)
I have to agree with Sophie. Anyone who thinks those letters are real is missing a few pages upstairs. I thought maybe those letters were real until I read about a guy who got off on "swirlies" (that's right, he stuck it in the john and flushed it!). Some of these letters probably are real and if not, I'm sure some people do actually do those things, but c'mon, we can't really expect to take it seriously as a valid cross-section of american life! Tom Twiss ...!ihnp4!stolaf!twiss ...!decvax!stoalf!twiss
dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (03/04/84)
I suspect a formal linguistic analysis of the letters in Penthouse
Forum would reveal that they were all written by the same person
or persons - when one looks at sentence structure and the other things
which leave the author's "fingerprint" on his creations.
Has anyone ever tried this?
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{allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsrgv!davelipman@decwrl.UUCP (03/07/84)
From: akov68::boyajian >> I have read as many letters from >> women (in the Forum) describing how they turned their men into >> sex slaves as from men. > I am curious, do you people believe that these letters are for real? I have > read some of those "forum" letters myself and they were the most ridiculous > stories I could ever imagine. It sounded like they came from some overexcited > adolescent minds. I could not imagine people doing those things seriously, > and bragging about it on top of it!!!! > leading a sheltered life in Waterloo....... > Sophie Quigley Well, of course there can be endless debate over whether those "Forum" letters are "real". Personally, I believe that most of them *are* real, in the sense that they are written by "real" people out there in PENTHOUSE-readership land (as opposed to being written by PENTHOUSE staff writers). "Forum" provides these people with the opportunity to write their own porno-book fantasies. I would even be willing to bet that many of the letters purporting to come from women are actually written by men whose fantasies involve be seduced by an aggressive woman (not that *all* are, or that I have any supporting evidence; just a supposition). I think what really gets me about the letters, is that so many of them start off with something like "I used to believe that the `Forum' letters were all staff written until the following incident happened to me last month..." I think that most of them are real howlers. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC Maynard) UUCP: (decvax!decwrl!rhea!akov68!boyajian) ARPA: (decwrl!rhea!akov68!boyajian@Shasta)