Free speech shouldn't include violent porn

[miz_wright]

McKinnon has been spearheading anti-porn feminism for thirty years or more - this isn't news. She and Dworkin did more with their combined efforts to ensure that women viewed all penatrative sex as analogous to rape.

There are very few women or feminists who hold to this view, by the by.

The second wave and its radical offshoots have been extremely detrimental to the ideas of feminine sex positivity - by taking the view that all m/f sex (or even f/f sex using insertables) is tantamount to rape and that all sexual behaviour that has one partner in a prone position necessarily subjugates that partner (regardless of any potentially negotiated power exchanges, explicit or otherwise), women have been disenfranchised from their own sexuality. The whole topic is one of the most divisive items in the feminist portfolio.

I think it's a straw man argument though, myself, because it hearkens back to the idea that women must be protected for their own good that made sufferage such a difficult fight. And to MY mind, that is completely antithetical to the entirety of the feminist movement and its associated ideals.

McKinnon and her ilk have taken the questionable road that to be feminist is to refute womanhood - and that to make the choice to be submissive in a consensual arrangement is by definition oppressive is faulty at best and dangerous at worst.

Heaven forfend we are provided the ability to make our own decisions and choose for ourselves.

Silly me. I thought that was the whole point.

[gonzo]

I dont care of aforementioned content and further more I think it only brings more heat to our business as a whole.

I think Max Hardcore is a steaming piece of shit.

However Free Speech means Free Speech.

I dont like it and I damned sure dont look at it.

[miz_wright]

Originally Posted by gonzo

I dont care of aforementioned content and further more I think it only brings more heat to our business as a whole.

I think Max Hardcore is a steaming piece of shit.

However Free Speech means Free Speech.

I dont like it and I damned sure dont look at it.

I don't care for it either, but I also don't care for hate speech - so I don't engage in it or give it my support. But on the other hand, I have views many people disagree with and I don't think my views should be silenced by the religious zealots - and therefore I have to protect the opportunity for human slime to spew their filth so I maintain my freedom to speak my mind as well.

[RawAlex]

Define "violent" in legal terms.

[miz_wright]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

Define "violent" in legal terms.

Describe "pornography" in legal terms.

[sarettah]

Hanging an American flag upside down in a window

Hmm. That is the international distress signal, hanging your flag upside down. How does that get grouped with declaring communist view...lololol

Anyway, free speech means that you take the good with the bad. It is an all or nothing proposition.

The one(s) that get to me lately are the one(s) advocating different free speech for different people/groups of people. ie: It is ok for a person of African-American ancestry to say nigger but it isn't ok for anyone else to say the word.

It is all a bunch of bullshit. Like I said to a student when they accused me of making discriminatory/rascist comments at one point:

"There are a whole lot of words in the English language and I reserve the right to use any of them that I please, anytime I please."

[RawAlex]

Originally Posted by LizAEBN

Describe "pornography" in legal terms.

I don't have to. Pornography is remarkably legal and the AG has even admitted that much of it is protected free speech.

You never have to define legal, just define illegal in a manner that can be measured and used in court. This thread starts down the same road as trying to define obscenity.

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

This thread starts down the same road as trying to define obscenity.

That is because it is one and the same. The only porn that is illegal (other than kp of course) is that which is obscene.

So, whether porn is legal or not pretty much solely depends on whether it is obscene or not and of course, here in the US, that has been left to that wonderfully crystal clear standard of "community standards"

[Sexyteaser]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

Define "violent" in legal terms.

I love this question...

The reason all these free speech cases are lost and a waste of tax payer money is the hypocricy; point Boxing and Ultimate Fighting which is quite violent and doesn't come with a disclaimer for minors to view is not mentioned. These people just use adult to sensationalize their position - they all need to get a life or have sex.

[Mediaguy]

In the Great White North, the only definition of "obscenity" used is sex with violence, ie., a violent act during the penetration, slapping and fucking, whatever...

Violence can precede the penetrative act, or follow it, but can't occur simultaneously.

Hey, I met Max Hardcore, he's a mellow dude, quiet and polite, and good conversationalist, and if his freak or kink or turn-on is violent, degrading sex, it doesn't affect his demeanor or treatment of people (men and women) outside the boudoir.

Personally, it turns me right off... I'm also not turned on by women in diapers, or foot fetish (though I 've seen the occasional pretty foot) and balloons.

But, some people are and do get into those fetishes... to me that's all it is.

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by gonzo

I dont care of aforementioned content and further more I think it only brings more heat to our business as a whole.

I think Max Hardcore is a steaming piece of shit.

However Free Speech means Free Speech.

I dont like it and I damned sure dont look at it.

Precisely...the market place should be the decider of free speech. WHY should someone else, anyone else, have power over me to decide what I can look at or express?

Free speech, is free speech. If it's not "good" speech, no one will buy it. Then it really will be "free speech," and won't last long in the marketplace.

And the po' children...gotta protect them. Tell the parents to lock them into the .kids extension. Then control that. I guarantee we have no desire to market there. But don't limit the rest of the world to what's safe for what YOU (the Nazis) think, is safe for kids.