Conference moira::naturism

158.0. "Newsweek's Pornography" by GENRAL::KILGORE (We are the People, Earth & Stars) Tue Apr 25 1989 02:12

I was reading Letters to the Editor in the April 17th issue of Newsweek and 
couldn't believe what I was reading.  Here is the letter minus the name of the 
people that wrote the letter (without permission).

	COVER UP

	   There is no justification for running a picture of a 
	topless women on the beach at St. Napa (International, 
	March 13).  We've always used your magazine as a tool to
	help teach our sons about current events, but there's no
	way that we'll show them such pornography.  You really 
	let us down on this one!

		signed by a couple from Ann Arbor, Mich.

I thought, "Wow!  I must have missed a doozie of an article and photo!"  So
I looked up our March 13th issue of Newsweek and found (on page 39) a 2-1/2"
by 3-1/2" (dimensions approx) photo of a crowded beach with 4 recognizable
women without tops.  Give me a break!

I suggest if mr and mrs Ann Arbor wants to see pornography (in my eyes) they 
should check out page 37 of the same issue their letter appeared.  They'd see 
about a dozen and a half dead bodies, with visable gapping wounds, in various 
states of undress (including one with the penis exposed), body parts missing...
its too gross to go on.  Now that is sick.  And what is sick about a part of
the human body that their kids have probably seen more of than they will ever
know?

Judy

    Judy-
    
    Unfortunately, in todays society (in the US anyway), violence is
    far more acceptable than the human body au natural. I have often
    wondered what is the problem with a society that finds it completely
    acceptable to have an over abundance of physical violence portrayed,
    even on Sat. morn. cartoons, yet they deem it necessary to censor
    a cartoon of a female elf when the cartoonist put mamaries on it
    (Walt Dizzy Studios).
    
    
    ed