[LINK] why calm, rational thought is required....

Adam Todd link at todd.inoz.com
Tue Feb 13 20:55:02 AEDT 2007


At 04:33 PM 13/02/2007, Stewart Fist wrote:
>Adam writes
>
> > Actually the definition of "pornography" means anything that offends a
> > person.  It doesn't have to be sexual in nature
>
>Actually the definition of "pornography" is whatever the community currently
>mean by "pornography".  And that doesn't include things that the community
>currently *doesn't* mean by "pornography"
>
>Definitions aren't absolutes, nor is there an Oxford-dictatorship of words.

OK, I'll agree :)  Words get slurred and changed all the time.

>Current usage is what matters, and in current usage "pornography" means girl
>with donkey, and two men ... ,

What's '...' got to do with ...

>and you all know exactly what I mean without needing me to spell it out.

You never know!  I was educated in an all boys private catholic Christian 
brothers school.  I didn't know what sex was till outside school hours.


>Which precisely illustrates my point.
>
>It doesn't mean cricket matches on TV.

/me laughs

I might start a campaign on that one!





More information about the Link mailing list