nrh@inmet.UUCP (09/25/86)
>/* Written 12:14 am Sep 25, 1986 by mat@mtx5a.UUCP in inmet:talk.pol.misc */ >/* ---------- "Re: Officer, arrest that man! He.." ---------- */ >We are not talking about amusement park thrills. We are talking about the >deepest, most pervasive, and least understood part of the human psyche, as >well as that segment of human behavior that is subject to apparently >arbitrary but also apparently vital regulation in every human culture, in >every religious system, and in the laws developed by every state (including >the English Common Law). Of course "apparently vital" has nothing to do with reality just as a bald assertion. I doubt, for example, if you'll find that porn or private, consensual, sexual behavior were regulated in every culture (were they regulated in pre-England India?) Or in old Japan? Of course, if you're trying to regulate sexual BEHAVIOR, why then you should just say so: pornography is a red herring -- an opening wedge, not a real issue. By the way, as long as I'm correcting foggy assertions, I doubt very much if sexuality is the deepest and most pervasive drive in human behavior. If it were, you could stab people and they'd continue having intercourse. Not so, therefore the drive to avoid pain is (not unexpectedly) deeper than the drive to have sex.