European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday june 26,1987 j�hn�wglpgggbhiwkhmibmhtflbvhhivmtphmkmihh4imi a Krum nov a no by a opposing views on pornography offered 1 have never been As alarmed As i was when i read the article in the stars and stripes about the Pentagon official who is presently writing a directive to bring the military in line with Llie 1973 supreme court decision on article did thai the directive could conceivably Lead to local commander being Able u ban Penthouse Hustler Outi and other sexually explicit Maga incs. It is sad indeed that in this particular year the year we chose to Honor the Constitution we also chose to violate one of the most sacred principles of Hie Constitution Freedom of the press. I understand the moral objections against pornography and 1 understand that a lot of closed minded people our present attorney general Edwin me Csc included feel that there is a correlation Between pornography and sexual Vio Lence but the opponents or pornography Tail to present a single Case of that Corre lation. What makes the entire incident so availing is the fact that the entire idea of having a military is to Send Young men and women to fight and die for the american Ideal of free will and the military establishment proposes to take that same "free-will7 away from the sol Dien. If sexually explicit material offends people Don l buy in. That is one of the surest ways of not being offended. As far i allowing the local commander to de cide that is not Only inherently wrong but potentially dangerous. Once he bans Penthouse Why not easy rider and cosmopolitan then he could ban Jet and essence while he s at it Jet s ban the sports illustrated swimsuit Issue an doonesbury and spider Man from Stan and stripes. Every dictatorship began with censorship done for the Many by the few. Yet if they read it to ban it and they ire not driven to violence Why should we be driven to violent 1 realize i m not saying this As Well or As strongly As i feel bul any censorship is wrong. To begin it on a military installation is contrary to every principle i Verpent the last 15 years fighting for. There s an african saying a healthy ear can stand hearing sick can not a healthy mind stand hearing sick thoughts if not that mind was t so healthy and the thought would have occurred anyway. Stall sgt. Reginald Al Mcdanlel Lamb Tull Germany american have been told since the Days the Firel commission on pornography met in 1970 that the Reading and viewing of salacious material in t harm Ful and in some cases May act to Curt rapist s criminal tendencies and thai some couples May find that these Materi als arc beneficial 10 their sex lives. What we Aren t being told is that those who old us these things have lied to us the unfortunate truth of this Issue is thai the 1970 commission s findings were the result of a Lack of solid Evi Dence. How else can one explain rape Rales that have doubled in relation to other crime rates in 1970 there was Little scientific re search into the Aff cols of Pom. Their findings seemed to place great weight on the Kutchinsky report he reported thai a decrease in rape Rales was observed i Denmark 18 percent and West Ger Many 14 percent following their relaxation of pornography Laws. However these findings have since been shown to have been in error 11 seems Kutchins Lcy failed to note that Norway experienced a 33 percent drop in rape Rales when it enacted Tough anti Pom legislation. He also failed to consider that in Denmark following the liberalization of its Pom statutes the police charged their reporting procedures grouping several types of sexually Crimi Nal behaviour together and simply quit Ting reporting on Ait incidents of rape. Many researchers have since dismissed the Kutchinsky report and have them selves found that sexually violent behaviour increases with exposure to pornography in 1986, when the Meese commission issued its report the overwhelming weight of evidence caused one commissioner to say to find people willing to acknowledge their personal consumption of erotic and pornographic materials and comment favourably in Public about their use has been nearly impossible. Since such materials Are wiling to millions of apparently satisfied customers it seems obvious that the data gathered is not Well in occurs to me however that the one sided nature of the testimony is actually a Well balanced picture. After All who would like to be the first person to admit in Public to their personal use of est materials victims of various sexual crimes commonly testified that the Albacker had pornography in his Possession at the Lime of Llie Croc or had Jusi finished viewing it the Baron and Strauss research group demonstrated a relationship betwee major sex magazines and rape rates. They examined the circulation of the eight largest publications and found that where their circulation rates were higher than the average so were the rape rates they considered various factors dial might influence their findings bul the conclusions were solid. People Ait affected by the images they View. This is not surprising. It s what advertisers count on. Although the 1970 study found that the vast majority of smut was of a heterosexual and non violent nature the findings of the 1986 commission found that the reverse was True. In fact Over 80 percent of the materials they examined nearly 3,000 publications videos etc.,were of a sexually violent or non violent sexually degrading and humiliating class. The Mcnese commission concluded that these types of materials were harm Ful to society. They observed a common theme in these materials called the rape myth. The rape myth is Man makes sexual Advance towards woman is rejected an then he forces the woman to have sex with him. The woman is shown to be came aroused then ecstatic and in the final scenes is shown begging for More. Other teams of researchers found that certain aug Luminal changes occurred among individuals who viewed one hour of porn a week for five weeks. This test group was then shown a Law school film on a rap Case. When a comparison was made with an unexposed group the exposed group concluded that the victim was More responsible for the crime against her and the attacker was less responsible for his actions. You men should try to measure your outrage at this from he standpoint of being raped. Al would be difficult for Roulo then conclude that your being raped was somehow your fault. To put it As Andrea Dworkin who gave testimony before the commission put it certainly it is Freedom for those who do in. Certainly it is Freedom for those who use it As entertainment but arc we also expected to believe that it is fact dam for those to whom it is the actress who starred in the movie deep Throat testified that she was her self held prisoner beaten and tortured by others during a 2 i year period. A free people would have to conclude in other circumstances that her oppressors Are guilty of rape kidnapping and slavery would t they bul the reality is that the Public has no Way of knowing whether the Model posing in the literature they re viewing has done so voluntarily or not. Another sad truth to this situation in that the Meese commission s hearings were rarely covered by the news Media. Even the government s own printing of fice printed Only the minimum number of copies and so we or still uniformed about the harms that Are inundating our society. Thus i can understand the Lack of data Given in the recent article in the Sara and stripes. However in Light of the directive being written by or. Armor for com Manders i must urge All commanders to examine the report of the Meese com Mission before deciding to authorize an further sates of salacious materials. And by the Way the Baron and Strauss group listed the major magazines they consid ered in their research. If you d like to know which ones they were just visit your Stan and stripes Bookstore or Readie report. Commanders should disregard this let Ter if they can conclude that the armed forces Aren t experiencing any problems with criminal sexual conduct. A. Michael shape Belgium role of commissary baggers discussed supports dissection stand i bad an experience recently that is nothing new at our commissary. 1 asked the Bagger to pack my Groce Ries in two boxes with handles we live up three nights of stairs and bags Are hard to handle. One Bagger packed one Box with All of the heavy things and another Bagger put the rest of the things in a bag. I repeated that i wanted a Box. The Bagge dumped the groceries out on the stand and then threw them Back into a hag 1 was then left to repack the groceries myself. Mind you i was in a regular line and the two boxes were quite heavy. The Bagger did not offer to Cany out the groceries for me secondly i would like to comment on the lipping business i used to be a Bagger myself. We did t expect lips. 1 find that the baggers Are extremely rude when they receive nothing but a polite thank you 1 have actually had one stand there and say they expected a lip tipping is a customer s Choice and Don t under stand the rude remarks directed at those of us who Don t lip especially for a service we Don l want. I am quite capable of carrying out my own groceries to my car. Yet these baggers expect a Dollar or More for walking 25 feet out to my car and handing me the bags to Pul in the car when i bagged groceries if we said anything like what has been said to me i would have loss the privilege of working there. Yet every time i Goto shop i see Sloppy careless bagging. To those rude baggers next time before you say something a sly to a customer directly or behind Misback for not receiving a lip or a very Small one 1. Think did i pick the customer s bags properly 2. Maybe this customer can t afford that Dollar you make in five minutes perhaps the customer has a Bud gel and can t �0 Over it. 3. A thank you and a smile is Worth More than a Dollar every now and then. Am not a stingy person i just feel that after spend ing $100 on groceries and paying a 5 percent sur charge 1 should t have to explain to baggers Why i did t tip them especially if the service was t Good name withheld of Lefholz Germany editor s note col. Neil Meoni commander is. Army troop support Agency european commis sary Redon replies you hire Nisei x me issues in your Teller about bag Gers that Are of interest to Many of Dot customers. I Wald like to take this Opportunity to explain a Fen policies concerning commissary baggers first of All la i am sure Yao Are aware from your experience a a commissary Bagger baggers Are no employees of the commissaries. They work under formalized agreement with the commissary system and receive no wages other than what they earn through tips Mowerer do Bugger should Ever ask far one. There is of coarse no excuse far rudeness and bag Gers Are performing a service hit should be performed properly. Ii Yon feel Job have been rudely treated by a Bagger or that bigger Tua not done Bis Job properly ask to speak with Ibe he a bigger who is responsible for dealing with Inch problems. Working As a commis sary Bagger is a privilege that can be melted if the i want to express my appreciation and support of Jenifer Graham concerning her refusal to dissect a Frog in biology class. While in High school and College 1 allowed myself to be intimidated and performed dissections on animals although 1 knew nothing of scientific value was accomplished. Wholesale animal experimentation in Ibe name of science was and is a Sham. 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