Profanity and BBSs
16-Sep-90 13:25:15
Sb: #491-Profanity and BBSs
Fm: Mark Olbert 73557,1512
To: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
Don, I suspected the economic aspect might be controlling <grin>.
Actually, simply having to seek out material is not necessarily a guard
against people taking offense. Consider adult theatres and pornographic
magazines in stores. You have to seek them out (well, granted the movie
marquis titles are visible to the casual passer-by, but they are rarely in
and of themselves deemed offensive), yet the argument about pornography and
censorship rages on. Another example: the Robert Maplethorpe exhibit in
Cincinnati — you had to travel to the museum (?) to see it, but it was
still deemed obscene simply for 'existing'.
– Mark