Bravo Rico!
 Only regret is that you may have re-ignited this crummy thread.
 But I share your views & appreciate your well expressed comments.
 For that, I will endure, uncomplaining, what may follow.
 Cheers,
 Phaedra

 ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rico Sapolich <JKrevnov@AOL.COM>
> Subject: Re: VW pornno- Long? No, Endless.
>
>
> > HK and Others:
> >
> > Where or where do I begin this much belated response to more e-mail's than I
> > honestly had the stamina to read?  Once the fuse was lit, I left town only to
> > return to a mailbox bloated by the subject of porn.  The glut of mail has
> > provoked me to examine certain of my attitudes, something I avoid when it
> > comes to art, food, music or . . . sex.  I would much rather let the primal
> > chord be plucked, then revel in its resonance.
> >
> > More than one suggested I am merely a prude.  Hardly so.  Ever since I was 11
> > years old, when Linda Giles sat across the aisle from me in Mrs. Curran's
> > classroom and allowed me to peer up her skirt while wondering what delights
> > lay ensconced in her white panties, I have been a prisoner of sex.  When I
> > was 15, I had an 18 year old girlfriend who drove a Bugeye Sprite and who put
> > me onto the scent of a woman; I have been rabidly following the trail ever
> > since.  During my college years, I took a long stroll on the wild side with a
> > string of go-go dancers, today, they are called strippers.  They came in all
> > flavors and each one, as all women, had something unique to offer.  But, one
> > stood far above the rest as the most sexually motivated creature I have ever
> > known.  She was a fiery mix of Puerto Rican, Japanese and Irish and we had
> > only two things in common: an appreciation of raw rhythm and blues and
> > bumping uglies.  On those merits she persuaded me to quit my summer job and
> > to travel with her to almost every dive in the Northeast.  By the time I
> > returned to reality, any demureness I may have harbored was permanently
> > extricated from my persona.  As you can see, I am far from being a tightass
> > regarding exhibitions of human sexuality.
> >
> > So, why DID I chastise badassbus?  With one reservation, it was not so much
> > the subject matter as it was the effrontery to my sense of scale.  There is a
> > proper time and a correct place for everything and this forum provided
> > neither for badassbus.  Beyond the impropriety of it all, there is nothing
> > clever, enticing nor particularly unique about a couple of teenie boppers
> > getting their backs blown out in VW bus.  What could be more banal?
> >
> > The thing that did bother me, and still does, is that the porn selected was
> > tinged by pedophilia, as is the bulk of the straight porn on the internet.
> > What, dear lord, is it with the almost de riguer shaved pussy?  A hairless
> > mons pubis is what one sees when one changes a sweet female baby's diaper.
> > Or, when a 3-year-old removes her accidentally wetted training pants and
> > continues to romp around the front yard.  With all her reproductive system
> > hidden safely inside of her developing womb, a female child has to be one of
> > God's most asexual creations!  Yet, these sleazebag internet porno kings are
> > foisting this perversion on young minds as if it is desirable or even normal.
> >
> >
> > When a man as intellectually evolved as Andrew Wiles is a father, HK, I have
> > to agree with you that the desire to procreate is whipping us all down the
> > path of life.  If this is the case, using it to excuse badassbus's temerity
> > is rather tenuous because the only appropriate subject of porn for most of us
> > should be, in turn, a woman fully ripened for the task at hand.  One with a
> > slight layer of body fat to carry her through the rigors of a pregnancy, a
> > fully developed pelvic girdle to bear children without undue trauma, full and
> > supple breasts for her babies to suckle and, the most visible indication that
> > all systems are go, pubic hair.  Hell, sounds like a Modigliani or, arguably
> > the hottest babe of all time, Marilyn Monroe.  So, badassbus, if you want to
> > offend to a lesser degree, offer some porn of a woman, not a child who has
> > just figured out the reason for that deep orifice amidships and whose parents
> > are indulgent enough to pay for a boob job.
> >
> > The inadequate warning did not make this posting any more appropriate.
> > Compared to what we expect to find here, the connection to Vanagons is very
> > thin and I, for one, assumed it was some sort of innocuous joke.  Since this
> > is not a courtroom, allowances have to be made for assumptions.  If you say
> > someone who has been around the block should have known better merely from
> > the subject line, consider this: I have been searching for a precision Rivett
> > lathe.  One of my searches returned a site whose window was entitled "TOOL
> > PORN".  Far from displaying teenage girls doing unnatural things with Snap-On
> > rachets, it showed machine tools a couple of guys had rescued from the
> > scrapyards of New England and requested others to share their own dirty,
> > i.e., greasy, snapshots.  With this mindset, I clicked on badassbus's link.
> >
> > Surely, my ramblings have tested everyone's patience, so, I won't go into why
> > I think the 1st Amendment should not protect pornographers.
> >
> > An Arab friend once told me that when a person in his country accidentally
> > sees someone in a compromising situation, such as catching a glimpse of a
> > bather through a bathroom window, the shame is not on the one seen but on the
> > viewer for looking.  With that in mind, I share the shame the posting caused.
> >
> >
> > Rich
>