minas@foxvax1.UUCP (P.C. Minasian ) (02/24/84)
The movie "Not A Love Story" is often cited (by anti-porn folk) as a balanced documentary substantiating the claim that porn both depicts and promotes violence against women. I feel quite strongly that the many instances actually shown in this movie represent a type of pornography that most people would find difficult to support in any way (myself certainly included). However, I did not appreciate the film at all. I found it to be clearly biased in the cases it decided to represent. The film continually showed and interviewed women who were involved in pornographic films/activities that clearly had sadistic and violent overtones. In my exposure to porn, I find it difficult to swallow this [mis]representation. While there can be little doubt that this type of pornography does, indeed, exist -- and not in insignificant amounts -- the attempt to represent this as the norm lowers the film from a balanced documentary to propaganda. I'd go as far as saying that most pornography does not include violent activities or cases of "forceful" (subtle or not) submission. Perhaps somone ought to actually do a study to prevent people (admittedly like myself) who make unsubstantiated claims about the nature of "most" pornpography. -phil minasian decvax!genrad!wjh12!foxvax!minas
tims@shark.UUCP (Tim Stoehr) (02/27/84)
Remember, many opponents of pornography would like to ban it altogether. This, however, puts them in the indefensible position of blatant censorship. So they cloud the issue with any negative aspects that they can dig up on the subject. That is why so many biased views on pornography are presented.