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Yeah, I'm sure someone sees it as porn. But that's not the issue, I think. We can't go around making the rules of society based on the fact that someone out there might get a stiffy. There's people out there trying to shag everything from kids to the family dog-- to say nothing of the neighbors' BMW. You could post photos of an 89-year-old Masai grandmother taking a crap by the side of the road, and someone out there would be jerking off to it. If we start outlawing stuff and sending in the cops and having fits of the screaming mimis every time somebody pops a woody at something nutty or sick, pretty soon, everything's going to be against the law, or declared indecent, or condemned for being lewd.

It is a very bad idea, IMHO, to allow the lowest common denominator-- or worse, the lowest uncommon denominator-- to determine how we act as a society. To do so is-- to borrow some slightly different terminology-- letting the perverts win. I feel quite strongly that it behooves us to take the attitude that art is art, and we will support it and benefit from it as a society-- even the kinds that are not to our individual personal tastes, and if people are going to misuse it and turn it into some kind of fetish, that's their sad problem, and they should do it behind closed doors.

The instant that we turn the police into the inappropriate boner patrol, we are wasting taxpayer money, we are sending kids the wrong message, and we once again show the world our willingness to sacrifice freedom and diversity in support of unwinnable battles against problems that can't be solved with smug posturing by politicians, draconian laws, and sending in the cavalry.

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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.

(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)