Fw: What we really need are laws against erotic retardation

["ben merkle" <benmerkle@moscow.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "ben merkle" <benmerkle@moscow.com>
To: <DonaldH675@aol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: What we really need are laws against erotic retardation


> Huskey writes
> > Consistency, I've heard, is the hobgoblin of small minds.
>
> If you heard it from Emerson, then it was that "a foolish consistency is
the
> hobgoblin of small minds." But even in its amended form, the quote still
> certainly still applies here. Foolishness certainly abounds.
>
>
> > I also note that the emphasis on eroticism is yours; the rest of us
appear
> > confident that the mere contemplation of the human chest in nakedness
will
> > not cause the collapse of our city into riotous sexual excess.
>
> And I think you are right that the emphasis on eroticism has come from the
> Trinitarians and not from the topless crowd. I still finds the female
breast
> sexually attractive and erotic. I'm sorry that so much of Moscow has lost
> the taste for it. How will the world be peopled?
>
> Keeping things warm,
> Ben Merkle,
> AKA Auntie-Freeze
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <DonaldH675@aol.com>
> To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 2:42 PM
> Subject: Re: What we really need are laws against erotic retardation
>
>
> > Consistency, I've heard, is the hobgoblin of small minds.  But in this
> case,
> > I'll readily admit that the small mind is mine.  I want consistency in
my
> > laws, and in their enforcement.
> >
> > I also note that the emphasis on eroticism is yours; the rest of us
appear
> > confident that the mere contemplation of the human chest in nakedness
will
> > not cause the collapse of our city into riotous sexual excess.  In fact,
> all
> > over Europe, men, women, and children of all ages appear topless, and
even
> > bottomless, at the beach without lasting trauma.  In Japan, public baths
> are
> > co-ed, and the sun continues to rise over Nippon.  Of course, those
> nations
> > which most closely regulate the public garb of women appear also to be
> those
> > which most severely limit their civil rights.
> >
> > And, as a matter of public information, the Supreme Court has found that
> > same-sex sexual harassment is indeed actionable, so that men's chests
are
> as
> > inviolable as women's when it comes to unwanting touching in the
> workplace.
> > (U.S. Supreme Court Case No. 96—568, Joseph Oncale, petitioner, v.
> Sundowner
> > Offshore Services, Inc., et al.)
> >
> > Let's all keep our hands to ourselves, shall we?
> >
> > Melynda Huskey
> >
> >
>