New meanings for pornography?

[David Bergdahl]

Charles & Ron have it exactly right: "R-rated" material is not considered
pornographic, only "XXX" material.
-db

On 10/29/06, RonButters at aol.com <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
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> I think that Charlie Doyle is right in his post when he says that
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> implies illegality for many people. And it is also the case that not
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> attempt at sexual titilation is pornography, and what constitutes
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> matter of taste. I suspect that what this young woman meant was that
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> costume was not beyond acceptable levels of sexual titilationosity, and
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> would not expect normal people to find it prurient. There are, for
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> enormous number of print advertisements for normal products such as=20
> undergarments, perfumes, and colognes that are quite erotic but most
> people,=
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> would not call them pornographic.
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> I have not done a survey, but I suspect that a very large percentage of
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> American public today--maybe a majority (depending on the ages of the=20
> interviewees) would not consider anything pornography that did not involve
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> naked below-the-belt genitals and/or simulated or actual sexual
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> one sort or another. Soft-core pornography generally involves simulated
> sex.
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> I'd call PLAYBOY risqu=E9, but not pornographic (as I remember it).
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> In a message dated 10/27/06 9:00:08 AM, db.list at PMPKN.NET writes:
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> > =A0=A0 "'It's not like it's pornography,' said Pamela Runsick, 22,
> > =A0 =A0 a senior from Melbourne majoring in advertising and public
> > =A0 =A0 relations, who stripped down to a black lace bra, panties
> > =A0 =A0 and high heels for a test shoot. 'It's Playboy. It's
> > =A0 =A0 glamorous.'"
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> > Since any definition of "pornography" i've ever run across before seems
> > to have, at core, the purpose of some sort of sexual titillation or
> > prurience involved, it seems to me that Playboy counts.
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