From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 09/19/00-02:28:56 PM Z
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Rod Fleming wrote:
> nude photography in general .. which you analogised to public execution
of religious minorities,
Actually, Rod, that's an unclothed distortion of what I did say. For the
record (and to "analogise" most of your remarks following):
You described naked-lady photography (or whatever the term at that point)
as "commonly accepted", therefore by implication OK.
My point, surely stated clearly enough for a man of your culture to grasp
(and obvious anyway), was that *commonly accepted* is no criterion. I
cited for example a few "commonly accepted" practices not now OK.
Others might include droit de seigneur, public flogging, cannibalism,
corsets, stoning to death, powdered wigs, human branding, jim crow,
"confinement" of women during pregnancy, dueling to the death, leeching,
slavery, indentured servitude, & footbinding. These are not the same as
each other OR naked-lady photography.
As you seem for whatever reason to prefer contumely to discussion (or even
"argument"), I doubt I can improve the occasion by replying further --
except to agree with Randall Webb that the OFFTOPIC discussion has been,
in large part, an interesting break from the purely technical.
Judy
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