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Should pornography be illegal?
Feb 28th 2005 | Me

Posted on 02/28/2005 5:53:06 PM PST by LauraleeBraswell

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To: LauraleeBraswell
Playboy magazine is not porn.

Playboy magazine contains pornography, beyond any doubt.

41 posted on 02/28/2005 6:23:30 PM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: LauraleeBraswell
Playboy magazine is not porn.

A hypothetical, Miss B.
You're cleaning your teenage son's room one Saturday and find a Playboy magazine. Do you...

a) Throw it in the trash and rebuke him

b) Set it on his nightstand.

42 posted on 02/28/2005 6:23:53 PM PST by jla
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To: LauraleeBraswell
Sodomy is a health risk.

Yes, moreso than straight sex... but straight sex can be unsafe as well. I don't think the increased dangers of legal sodomy can balance the infringement on our individual freedoms if it were criminalized. Would we have a "Sodomy Police?"

43 posted on 02/28/2005 6:24:14 PM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: LauraleeBraswell
Playboy magazine is not porn.

Of course it is.

Or perhaps by "porn" you meant "hardcore porn." You have to be accurate in your descriptions, or your meaning can get lost.

44 posted on 02/28/2005 6:25:08 PM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: A CA Guy


(shhh, we need those crazy liberatarians to win)

I don't see things as moral or immoral. Moral is an opinion, isn't it? Society sets morality. In Fundemental Islamic Society a woman without a burka is immoral. I see things as right or wrong, and right and wrong is universal.



45 posted on 02/28/2005 6:25:38 PM PST by LauraleeBraswell ( CONSERVATIVE FIRST-Republican second.)
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To: A CA Guy

Do you not see a distinction between 1.) whether something is morally right or wrong, and 2.) whether the government has any business regulating it?


46 posted on 02/28/2005 6:25:44 PM PST by Sloth (I don't post a lot of the threads you read; I make a lot of the threads you read better.)
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To: jla


ohh, good point, alright alright, it is porn.


47 posted on 02/28/2005 6:26:17 PM PST by LauraleeBraswell ( CONSERVATIVE FIRST-Republican second.)
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To: Graybeard58

:-)


48 posted on 02/28/2005 6:26:32 PM PST by nopardons
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To: LauraleeBraswell
Prostitution: one adult pays another adult for sex- is illegal

Prostitution is not something exclusively involving adults.

49 posted on 02/28/2005 6:26:55 PM PST by Horatio Gates (Today's victim is tomorrow's suspect.)
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To: Killborn
either a. You forgot your </sarcasm> tag or b. You're serious and, this will be good, how on Earth is Harry Potter porn?
50 posted on 02/28/2005 6:27:58 PM PST by SwankyC (1st Bn 11th Marines Semper Fi)
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To: shotokan

in this sense it is. Pornography is not something exclusively involving adults either, but in this discussion, it has been defined as such to avoid confusion.


51 posted on 02/28/2005 6:28:03 PM PST by LauraleeBraswell ( CONSERVATIVE FIRST-Republican second.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
EXACTLY!

The supposed 18 year old old,who claims that she's done "extensive research on pornography", is yet again proving that she is either a fill fledged moron, or really bad at play acting being 1)a female 2)18.

Call up the rest of RBKA...this is just the kind of thread that needs all of us here. :-)

52 posted on 02/28/2005 6:29:45 PM PST by nopardons
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To: LauraleeBraswell

Don't confuse me with context. 8>) IMHO, Playboy = porn. My wife says so.


53 posted on 02/28/2005 6:31:00 PM PST by Horatio Gates (Today's victim is tomorrow's suspect.)
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To: Sloth

That is the exact libertarian problem. They have more trouble than conservatives in realizing right from wrong and want most vices open to the public like vitamins.

IMO they are borderline anarchists.
Their civilization IMO would look like "Escape from New York" the movie.


54 posted on 02/28/2005 6:31:10 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: nopardons


I never said I did extensive research. I've read some essays on both viewpoints. Stop being rude.


55 posted on 02/28/2005 6:31:10 PM PST by LauraleeBraswell ( CONSERVATIVE FIRST-Republican second.)
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To: jla

Throw it away and punish him, the same think I would do if he was smoking but that doesn't mean I wish the government to stop those above the age of 18 from having/doing either.


56 posted on 02/28/2005 6:33:24 PM PST by FactsMatter (:))
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To: jla

She's supposedly all of 18.....don't ask her a hypothetical like that,she doesn't think that anyone outside of N.Y.C. (where she supposedly does NOT live!) is a stock broker/bond broker/lawyer/doctor/etc. and can't imagine HOW they make a living! ROTFLOL


57 posted on 02/28/2005 6:33:32 PM PST by nopardons
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To: LauraleeBraswell
Making pornography illegal is about as pointless as making prostitution illegal. You actually think those ads for "escorts" in the Village Voice are for someone to take you to your car at night?

With the proliferation of the internet, banning porn is all but impossible.

58 posted on 02/28/2005 6:35:23 PM PST by Clemenza (Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms: The Other Holy Trinity)
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To: A CA Guy

Feeling non sequitur today?


59 posted on 02/28/2005 6:36:43 PM PST by tacticalogic
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To: SwankyC
how on Earth is Harry Potter porn?

Never read "Harry Potter" but I know it's porn.

Pornography has 11 letters and so does Harry Potter.

Coincidence?

I think not.

60 posted on 02/28/2005 6:37:23 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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