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Termyn8or -> RE: BDSM art and stories now illegal (12/10/2009 9:27:22 AM)
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There are many problems with censorship in a free society. Real or fiction, doesn't matter.
Let's take a story.
Chapter one.
A girl is raped at age two. From there she got whored out by her stepdad and later got out of there at any cost. After that she fell into a life of crime, drugs and prostitution. Some of the johns were kinky, and she would do anything but was not into it so had to be high or drunk to comply. [end chapter one]
A sad state of affairs indeed. A whole bunch of people would like to knock the shit out of her abusers, maybe even kill them. What if explicit scenarios are drawn in text of these kinky episodes ? Then what if one person got turned on by even one literary expression of said episodes ? One person. [end commentary]
Chapter two.
Now she's my roomie. She is off drugs and has been out of jail for a record one year now. She is eating better and has an olman to whom she is faithful. I don't charge her rent, but she takes care of the house, and I am a terrible slob. She has expressed that she never really knew what it was to know family until now. My concern is not so much how long she stays, but where she goes as this is a temporay living arraingement. [end chapter two]
The end.
Now where does that stand ? What if one of the scenarios depicted in text resulted in sexual arousal in just a scant small percentage of the people ? You can speculate all day long (or for five years on CM I guess) whether such a story should be considered erotic, or even real or fiction. What would be the main criterium, intent ? Or would it be in the eye of the beholder ?
A movie such as Eating Rhaoul would land you in the joint. Why not ? That's actually a motion picture with kinky costumes, some whips and chains, and basically is terrible, but....... if you've never seen it, I'll throw the quickest synopsis as possible.
This couple wanted to start a restauant and was out to raise the capital. Roundabout they got the idea to rob kinksters, homosexuals and whatevr kind of "deviant" they could lure into their trap. They robbed and killed their clients and sold the bodies to Rhaoul who sold them to a dog food factory. At one point they had a bunch of their "clients" in a pool and threw a toaster oven in, killing them all in one fell swoop. Rhaoul made good money that day when they paid him to get rid of the bodies, but then they found out Rhaoul was making money both ways. Rhaoul is killed in an ensuing scene and they cook his body up and eat it.
So this movie is perfactly OK as long as noone gets turned on by this one Woman who shows up in tight leather or something with a whip. Would that be correct ?
Censorship is very dangerous ground in a supposedly free society. What do we do, put it to a popular vote to be fair ? Remember those in CA (of all places) to vote to ban Gay marriage.
There is also the possibility that censors are harboring hidden desires, and gloat at the fact that they can get material that noone else can get. In a society where you have preachers busted for tax evasion and caught with prostitutes, and Priests caught with little boys, this is a distinct possiblity, at least some of them.
Now I prefer to punish real crimes of you please. There was a gang of pornographers who sold videos of kids getting raped and killed for upwards of $15,000 per copy. They were busted in Russia and Italy. Now these videos are evidence of actual crimes, therefore logic draws the line.
However in the printed word, there can be no real line. You can't please everyone. If you can put anyone in jail for what they write that means they can do the same to me, or YOU.
Do not get me wrong, there are things that are offensive to me. More than you think actually, but I do NOT have the right to make it illegal. Nobody does. Fiction is fiction.
Now what of cartoons. I actually saw one once depicting the Flinstones having an orgy. Yes it was bad, but it was just a drawing. Does the person who drew it need to go to jail ?
Your call, not mine. (not your's either actually)
T
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