Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 23:49:20 EDT
Reply-To: JKrevnov@AOL.COM
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From: Rico Sapolich <JKrevnov@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: VW pornno- Long? No, Endless.
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In a message dated 6/17/01 10:12:29 AM, hksawyer@CATT.COM writes:
<< At 01:16 AM 6/17/01 -0400, Rico Sapolich wrote:
>In a message dated 6/16/01 11:30:30 PM, badassbus@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
><< Can't believe these guys stole my idea for Vanagon porn >>
>
>badassbus,
>
>Apparently you suffer a dearth of ideas. But, you make up for it by being
>one hell of an asshole.
>
>Rich
Rich, come on man, we are mostly adults here! . . .
The "drive" for reproduction the strongest force
on the planet at times, right up there with the primal instinct
survival. . . . From your inflamed response, you
were extremely offended. . . .
Did I have fair warning? . . .
. . .What would happen to the discussions if there is a chill to the freedom
of speech that we enjoy on the list? . . .
HK >>
*****! ! ! ! ! ! BEWARE: THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS COURSE AND COMMON LANGUAGE
WHICH MAY LEAVE INDELIBLE SEXUAL IMAGES ON YOUR IMAGINATION. IT IS VULGAR,
SHAMELESS AND, PERHAPS, POINTLESS ! ! ! ! ! *****
HK and Others:
Where or where do I begin this much belated response to more e-mail's than I
honestly had the stamina to read? Once the fuse was lit, I left town only to
return to a mailbox bloated by the subject of porn. The glut of mail has
provoked me to examine certain of my attitudes, something I avoid when it
comes to art, food, music or . . . sex. I would much rather let the primal
chord be plucked, then revel in its resonance.
More than one suggested I am merely a prude. Hardly so. Ever since I was 11
years old, when Linda Giles sat across the aisle from me in Mrs. Curran's
classroom and allowed me to peer up her skirt while wondering what delights
lay ensconced in her white panties, I have been a prisoner of sex. When I
was 15, I had an 18 year old girlfriend who drove a Bugeye Sprite and who put
me onto the scent of a woman; I have been rabidly following the trail ever
since. During my college years, I took a long stroll on the wild side with a
string of go-go dancers, today, they are called strippers. They came in all
flavors and each one, as all women, had something unique to offer. But, one
stood far above the rest as the most sexually motivated creature I have ever
known. She was a fiery mix of Puerto Rican, Japanese and Irish and we had
only two things in common: an appreciation of raw rhythm and blues and
bumping uglies. On those merits she persuaded me to quit my summer job and
to travel with her to almost every dive in the Northeast. By the time I
returned to reality, any demureness I may have harbored was permanently
extricated from my persona. As you can see, I am far from being a tightass
regarding exhibitions of human sexuality.
So, why DID I chastise badassbus? With one reservation, it was not so much
the subject matter as it was the effrontery to my sense of scale. There is a
proper time and a correct place for everything and this forum provided
neither for badassbus. Beyond the impropriety of it all, there is nothing
clever, enticing nor particularly unique about a couple of teenie boppers
getting their backs blown out in VW bus. What could be more banal?
The thing that did bother me, and still does, is that the porn selected was
tinged by pedophilia, as is the bulk of the straight porn on the internet.
What, dear lord, is it with the almost de riguer shaved pussy? A hairless
mons pubis is what one sees when one changes a sweet female baby's diaper.
Or, when a 3-year-old removes her accidentally wetted training pants and
continues to romp around the front yard. With all her reproductive system
hidden safely inside of her developing womb, a female child has to be one of
God's most asexual creations! Yet, these sleazebag internet porno kings are
foisting this perversion on young minds as if it is desirable or even normal.
When a man as intellectually evolved as Andrew Wiles is a father, HK, I have
to agree with you that the desire to procreate is whipping us all down the
path of life. If this is the case, using it to excuse badassbus's temerity
is rather tenuous because the only appropriate subject of porn for most of us
should be, in turn, a woman fully ripened for the task at hand. One with a
slight layer of body fat to carry her through the rigors of a pregnancy, a
fully developed pelvic girdle to bear children without undue trauma, full and
supple breasts for her babies to suckle and, the most visible indication that
all systems are go, pubic hair. Hell, sounds like a Modigliani or, arguably
the hottest babe of all time, Marilyn Monroe. So, badassbus, if you want to
offend to a lesser degree, offer some porn of a woman, not a child who has
just figured out the reason for that deep orifice amidships and whose parents
are indulgent enough to pay for a boob job.
The inadequate warning did not make this posting any more appropriate.
Compared to what we expect to find here, the connection to Vanagons is very
thin and I, for one, assumed it was some sort of innocuous joke. Since this
is not a courtroom, allowances have to be made for assumptions. If you say
someone who has been around the block should have known better merely from
the subject line, consider this: I have been searching for a precision Rivett
lathe. One of my searches returned a site whose window was entitled "TOOL
PORN". Far from displaying teenage girls doing unnatural things with Snap-On
rachets, it showed machine tools a couple of guys had rescued from the
scrapyards of New England and requested others to share their own dirty,
i.e., greasy, snapshots. With this mindset, I clicked on badassbus's link.
Surely, my ramblings have tested everyone's patience, so, I won't go into why
I think the 1st Amendment should not protect pornographers.
An Arab friend once told me that when a person in his country accidentally
sees someone in a compromising situation, such as catching a glimpse of a
bather through a bathroom window, the shame is not on the one seen but on the
viewer for looking. With that in mind, I share the shame the posting caused.
Rich
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