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- From: uunet!infmx!hartman@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Robert Hartman)
- Newsgroups: soc.feminism
- Subject: Re: Shaming men's sexuality
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 20:07:29 GMT
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- In article <1gnlqpINNpn4@agate.berkeley.edu> goid@zooid.guild.org (Will Steeves) writes:
- >[Moderator's note: excessive included text trimmed.]
- >
- >vanhoek@bend.UCSD.EDU (Karen van Hoek) writes...
- >KVH> My overall point is that it really is true that some feminists
- >KVH> seem to think it's open season on men, especially with regards
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >KVH> to men's sexuality.
- >
- >It's interesting that you mention this, Karen. This is also a sentiment
- >echoed in "Pornography: The Other Side" by Prof. Ferrel M. Christensen,
- >of the University of Alberta, and also the President of the organisation
- >MERGE.
- >
- >It was his opinion, in large part supported by his research, that many
- >anti-pornography feminists are in some sense opposing male sexuality,
- >rather than merely the depiction of women as "sexual objects,"
-
- I've heard this sentiment expressed quite clearly by some feminists as
- well. I find it very disheartening when I hear it; I also understand
- that people who have certain views aren't good for me to associate
- with. I leave people with such views strictly alone (which is probably
- a relief to all concerned).
-
- Perhaps the panicky reaction from men as regards pornography has to do
- with a fear that it is "male sexuality" that is in fact being objected
- to.
-
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