[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!
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