'##::::'##:::'#####:::'########: VIVA LA REVOLUCION! CERDO DEL CAPITALISTA!! ##:::: ##::'##.. ##:: ##.....:: =========================================== ##:::: ##:'##:::: ##: ##::::::: THE HELOTS OF ECSTASY PRESS RELEASE #442 !! #########: ##:::: ##: ######::: ZIEGO VUANTAR SHALL BE MUCH VICTORIOUS! !! ##.... ##: ##:::: ##: ##...:::: =========================================== ##:::: ##:. ##:: ##:: ##::::::: "News Flash: Women Are Not Helpless" !! ##:::: ##::. #####::: ########: by -> Nitro-187 !! ..:::::..::::.....::::........:: 1/18/99 !! !!========================================================================!! A few weeks ago I was having a conversation with a friend of mine whose opinions I usually hold with a lot of regard. I was completely aghast when he started talking about how strip clubs were degrading to women and ought to be shut down. Then I started thinking about how just about everyone I know who has a somewhat liberal frame of thinking agrees with just that. There are even bands in the hardcore community that seem to convey the message that women in pornography and such things are complete victims being abused by a patriarchal society. I think that this idea is extremely flawed and dangerous. It just reinforces the idea that women are helpless. By buying into that line of thinking, you are completely ignoring a woman's right to express and make a living in any way she sees fit. You wouldn't want a blind person to drive frieght trucks, but you would want someone who had a clear head and was free from any kind of emotional problems to operate on you. Women who are physically attractive or considered to be appealing in a sexual way who want to strip or prostitute themselves are no different. Job skills. The arguement is that men who see women stripping and patron prostitutes are only viewing them in a sexual manner is completely pointless. I seriously doubt that people who say that are interested in the personality or the life history of the person who is waiting your table or pumping your gas. They are there to serve you and nothing else. The anachronistic notion that a woman has to maintain her virginity and remain "clean" dates back to a time when women were considered as nothing but property. No matter what, their ideas and intellect were completely ignored and they had no material possesions to give to a man. She only had her virginity. While there still is a lot of sexism and inequality going on, women are treated better here and now than they have been in any Judaic or Islamic society. So the idea that a women has only her sex to give is obsolete. The idea that sexuality is inherently wrong is the single largest opressor of women. The first recorded civilization, the Sumerians, not only gave women complete sexual freedom as did men, but worshipped them as goddesses. Women were the givers of life. They were allowed to transact in the market place and own property just as men did. In fact it was because of this that civilizations first alphabet and scriptures were devised by a group of women who were more or less the government of the province called the Naditu. Sex was not understood to impregnate women, it was not considered to defile either the male or female. It was just another recreational activity. It was not until the isrealite cult of judaism gained power and destroyed the greatest city in the world at the time, Babylon, that their ideals of shame were inflicted on the masses. The male dominated tribe's main scriptures dealing with creation ended with a woman tempting a man into comitting sin and displeasing the male god. Her punishment was the pain of child birth. Doh. Throughout their scriptures women are a great temptation and should be avoided. Since women tend to be less physically strong than men they were quickly subdued and made into property that meant little more to men than cows or chickens. Since the sexual urge is the strongest natural biological reflex, they knew that if sexuality could be controlled than you can control every facet of someone's life. So extensive sexual laws were put into place. Their blood was upon them, you know the speil. Today if you will look at modern nations. The contrast that existed between Sumerian-Babylonian (their cultures were very similar, they both worshipped the same goddess, "Ishtar") and the Isreali cultures is still in place. Denmark, where anyone regardless of age can purchase a Hustler Magazine and get into a strip club has strict laws to prevent discrimination of women. The rates of domestic violence, rape and other such crimes is among the lowest in the industrialized world. Fundamentalist cultures such as that of Libya and Lebanon have no pornography at all. They also are the most opressive nations in the world to women, I'm sure you know that in these countries women are not allowed to own anything, to drive a car or even in most cases to show their faces to a man the is not their husband. A similar situation exists in Singapore, where the neo-fascist People's Action Party (who reminds me a great deal of the _Orwellian_ Party) places all kinds of restrictions on literature and media to produce a "clean" image. Penthouse is banned and so is Red Book. Nudity on any image that is not that of a classical form of art such as Michaelangelo's _David_ is generally banned. Singapore has a huge problem with rape and other crimes against women. Any research you do on the correlation between pornography and violence will always point you in one direction: PORN DOES NOT ENCOURAGE VIOLENCE. If anything it quells the desire to commit various sexual acts that are not acceptable by most people such as pedophilia, beastiality and rape. Kiddie porn is readily available in Denmark, child molestation is pretty non-existant. In the United States, where it is extremely illegal, we'll hopefully you get my point by now. I'm sure you've heard televangelists speak of how the AIDS virus is the wrath of God. If you were to analyze the situation you'd find out this: _CHRISTIANITY_ IS THE MAIN CAUSE OF AIDS. Neo-Puratanism, Victorianism and these type of attitudes that were held by most of the officials in the U.S. Governement at the time... and _they_ are responsible for the widespread of the virus. At the time, heterosexuals tended not to get the new "Gay Cancer". It was pretty much segregated into certain populations such as Hatian prostitutes and patrons of gay brothels in larger U.S. cities such as New York and San Francisco. If these populations were quarantined and research was done on them to find out the origins of the disease, then it would not be killing millions every year. It shouldn't have been difficult, look at how much they knew about Patient Zero and everyone that he had sexual relations with. Of course, that didn't happen because politicians were more interested in maintaining the favor of the puritans who vote for them, and doing anything at all to associate themselves with sexual deviants like prostitutes and homosexuals would damage their career. In the later part of the 1980's, when more research was conducted and it was determined that blah blah blah -- _that_ should have been the end to illegal prostitution. Government does regulate damn near every industry. Regulating prostitution to where they had to use condoms similar to the way that doctors have to wear gloves would cut down on new AIDS cases significantly. Of course that's contrary to the nature of the people of this country and probably will never happen. It's just an idea. i'm sure you've noticed a recurring theme here: PURITANICAL IDEAS ARE THE BASIS FOR SEXISM, THEY ARE OBSOLETE. ANYONE WHO EMBRACES THEM IS UNABLE TO BREAK THE CONDITIONING THEY HAVE RECIEVED FROM SOCIEY. IF PURITANISM WAS OBSOLETE LIKE IT SHOULD BE, THEN ELLEN DEGENERES WOULD NO LONGER HAVE A CAREER. NOW _THAT_ WOULD TRULY BE A BETTER TOMORROW. !!========================================================================!! !! (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! HOE #442, WRITTEN BY NITRO-187 - 1/18/99 !!