king@kestrel.ARPA (Dick King) (09/18/86)
From: mat@mtx5a.UUCP (m.terribile) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.legal,net.singles Date: 20 Sep 86 04:06:16 GMT Distribution: net > > AH! Now we have gotten to the *crux* of the matter: > sexual arousal > > Nothing here about rape, nothing here about violence, nothing here > about unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, nope > just plain sexual arousal. > ... > Let's ban *anything* which may lead people to that awful, disgusting > *sinful* pleasure of *SEXUAL AROUSAL*!! >... > Amidst all the noise about rape, violence, etc, you have finally stated > the true desire of the Meese Commission and the right-wing fascists > trying to take away our rights to private pleasures. Their desire Or, rather, the question of whether turning sexual arousal into a commodity to be traded at the price the market will bear, and provided with all the moral integrity of Big Business, is causing harm, doing good, or being indifferent. Other wired-in human needs, such as food and warmth, are commoditized. How much is it worth to you to have a camera in your bedroom so we can film what you do and publish it? Ten thousand, hundred thousand? How about a million? Oops, you're about to be undersold by a couple of starving kids in the ghetto who'll do it for a hundred-and-fifty. There is a price at which I would pick crops, but I am continually being undersold there, too. ``Orgasms are up two in heavy trading on reports of a major new marketing campaign ...'' (Oh, let me be silly once in a while! Trying to answer all of the silly ways you encapsulate *your* agendas is getting to me!) Sexual arousal is a means by which people may be manipulated. A woman known as CYNTHIA got intelligence information that turned WWII out of very loyal officers of Vichy France: I discovered how easy it was to make highly trained, professionally close-mouted patriots give away secrets in bed, and I swore to close my ears to everything of value on our side. The greatest joy is a man and woman together. Making love allows a discharge of all those private innermost thoughts that have accumulated. In this sudden flood, everything is released. Everything. I just never dared to learn our own secrets ... CYNTHIA, later Elizabeth Amy Thorpe (real name still secret) quoted in ``A Man Called INTREPID''. Hardly the stuff we want traded on the Mercantile Exchange ... I'm sure secrets have been gotten out of people through the threat of starvation v. the offer of food, too. Sorry, no spy biography quotes... -- from Mole End Mark Terribile (scrape .. dig ) mtx5b!mat (Please mail to mtx5b!mat, NOT mtx5a! mat, or to mtx5a!mtx5b!mat) (mtx5b!mole-end!mat will also reach me) ,.. .,, ,,, ..,***_*. -dick