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Profanity and BBSs

    16-Sep-90 13:25:15
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