Timothy C. May writes:

degrading to women, objectifies them, etc. (ironically, unless of course it is "made by and for wimmin," a loophole added by Andrea Dworkin and her supporters after they discovered their anti-porn crusade in Canada and elsewhere would put an end to Lesbian porn mags like "Yellow Silk"!).

This is complete and utter nonsense. Tim May has no clue as to what he talks about. What's worse, it smells of homophobia. In no particular order: - Dworkin has never called for the banning of porn. I've read most of her books, and she even goes out of her way to say she's not calling for any sort of censorship. She *does* push for 'victim compenstation'-style legislation. (How this sort of legislation interacts with constitutional rights is beyond my keen, save a few decisions I've read about 19th century property rights in Louisiana. :-) - I've heard Dworkin come down just has hard on lesbigay porn, if not harder than, as she does on het porn. Her old housemate John Stoltenberg (sp?) is as noxious as she is on this point. - "Yellow Silk" is not a lesbian porn mag. It's a very lame het softcore mag. If you'd like to see *real* lesbian porn (some of which pisses off a fair portition of the feminist and lesbian communities) find "On Our Backs" (started by Susie Bright), "Venus Infers" (started by Pat Califia, women-only SM), or "Girljock" (sort of a preppie/athelete/lesbian (not dyke :-) porn mag). - Last I heard, there was no need to capitalize 'lesbian'. None of the dykes/lesbians I know capitalize it, unless it starts a sentence. Residents of Lesbos (the true 'Lesbians') might disagree, however. Tired of white het male computer geeks talking nonsense about anyone who threatens their place in the power structure, -- jet@netcom.com -- J. Eric Townsend -- '92 R100R: "CLACKER" "Either what you've said is so vague that it's meaningless or I disagreee with you completely." -- Tom Maddox