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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-11 08:29 PM
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Poll question: Propaganda or pornography?
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SwampG8r Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 12:23 AM
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1. suzy creamcheese
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 05:16 PM
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5. nitpicker
:D
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SwampG8r Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 11:32 PM
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6. what... i voted other and you said explain
i wasnt picking i swear
i got all the friggin nits i need everytime i go to GD
lol a nit joke...does that make me a nitwit?
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-11 05:39 PM
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14. Mary Jane Rottencrotch nt
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dimbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 03:17 AM
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2. It's not infallible, but usually where there is pornography there is freedom.
Don't know why, but dictators tend to be prudes.
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 05:19 AM
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3. philanderer or philanthropist
:D
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-11 10:11 AM
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4. Give me smut and nothing but...


I do have a cause though. It is obscenity. I'm for it. Unfortunately the civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it owing to the nature of the laws as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on but we know what's really involved: dirty books are fun. That's all there is to it. But you can't get up in a court and say that I suppose. It's simply a matter of freedom of pleasure, a right which is not guaranteed by the Constitution unfortunately. Anyway, since people seem to be marching for their causes these days I have here a march for mine. It's called...

Smut!
Give me smut and nothing but!
A dirty novel I can't shut,
If it's uncut,
and unsubt- le.

I've never quibbled
If it was ribald,
I would devour where others merely nibbled.
As the judge remarked the day that he
acquitted my Aunt Hortense,
"To be smut
It must be ut-
Terly without redeeming social importance."

Por-
Nographic pictures I adore.
Indecent magazines galore,
I like them more
If they're hard core.

(Bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties,
samplers, stained-glass windows, tattoos, anything!
More, more, I'm still not satisfied!)

Stories of tortures
Used by debauchers,
Lurid, licentious, and vile,
Make me smile.
Novels that pander
To my taste for candor
Give me a pleasure sublime.
(Let's face it, I love slime.)

All books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder,
For filth (I'm glad to say) is in
the mind of the beholder.
When correctly viewed,
Everything is lewd.
(I could tell you things about Peter Pan,
And the Wizard of Oz, there's a dirty old man!)

I thrill
To any book like Fanny Hill,
And I suppose I always will,
If it is swill
And really fil-
thy.

Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately?
I've got a hobby: rereading Lady Chatterley.
But now they're trying to take it all
away from us unless
We take a stand, and hand in hand
we fight for freedom of the press.
In other words,

Smut! (I love it)
Ah, the adventures of a slut.
Oh, I'm a market they can't glut,
I don't know what
Compares with smut.

Hip hip hooray!
Let's hear it for the Supreme Court!
Don't let them take it away!

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dimbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-11 01:50 AM
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7. If you happen to like both, the Marquis de Sade might be to your taste.
A disciple of depravity, produced a great mass of very boring literature intended to spread the word. Maybe I should make that 'broadcast' the word.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-11 10:56 AM
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8. I once read an article that described pornography as "propaganda for sex" -- the author
then noted that most people seem to want sex, even without propaganda, and wondered why any propaganda would be necessary
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dimbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-11 05:07 PM
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12. There are pornographic authors who are both coy and reluctant, not advocates at all.
Anais Nin comes to mind, and in another vein, von Masoch. Attitude is all. Nin wrote that stuff to keep from starving, might explain the vibe. Another author who didn't make or expect to make any converts: Swinburne.

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dimbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-11 05:08 PM
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13. dupe ignore n/t
Edited on Thu Jun-30-11 05:25 PM by dimbear
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-11 11:08 AM
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9. porn is propaganda.
nullifies the poll.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-11 01:41 PM
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10. Neither: Pronaganda!
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-11 01:53 PM
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11. Lickerature. n/t
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