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Sunday, October 5, 2008 12:00 AM

Porn producer invokes the Bush/Yoo defense -- unsuccessfully

Citizens who produce fictitious films depicting "humiliation" and "degradation" will be sent to prison. Government officials who do that in reality will be immunized.

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  • Monday, October 6, 2008 06:18 PM

    The porn is just awful, and the torture is powers worse

    I have been paid for pitch-forking up horse turds, but that was not such a bad job. I enjoyed it. Call me a kook, maybe. So... Maybe I can understand the idea that these girls get paid, and that they enjoy their work. (I wrote, "girls," on purpose.)

    Take a look, though. You can look at thumnailpost.com. That is a mostly-"relatively-mild," mostly hetro-sexual, free porn web site, with lots of material. If you actually look at the pretty girls letting the creeps do all sorts of stuff to them, you probably will be sad, at the least.

    My point is: Look for yourself, and make up your own mind, if you are not convinced already. Otherwse, skip it. It will make you barf, and it will give you guilty, ashamed arousal.

    On the torture: The best web site evidence is here on Salon. But the pictoral evidence apparently does not even scratch the surface of what Americans actually have done. Do you have any doubt that these things are crimes and sins?

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