http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,43519,00.html May Days Should Be Porn-Free By Declan McCullagh (declanat_private) 2:00 a.m. May 4, 2001 PDT WASHINGTON -- If you're a dot-com sex star, if you lurk on alt.sex.stories, or if your home page happens to be thehun.net, then you may be a "victim" of pornography. No, don't laugh. An entirely serious coalition of antiporn groups is celebrating "Victims of Pornography" month in May, and they're hoping their efforts will climax with more prosecutions of smut sellers. It may seem unseemly to toast a month that's by design a dour affair, but now that a Republican lives in the White House, conservatives are mounting an unadulterated campaign to save the sexploited. On the victimsofpornography.org site, visitors are urged to become active against ostensibly unwholesome erotica by meeting with religious leaders, planning a motorcade with white ribbons and writing letters to local newspapers. The festivities began Wednesday on Capitol Hill with an event attended by Reps. Steve Largent (R-Oklahoma) and Jim Ryun (R-Kansas), along with groups and individuals who offered testimonials to the perils of prurience. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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