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Show Page 2 - S. L. Neighborhood News Advertiser a place to share your thoughts. Mr. by Stephen W. Pett individual Nielson: Well the has to decide. It all are moving comes down to the basic faster and further than at any time in man's history. A speech by some prominent figure in San Francisco this morning may be a topic of discussion in Tokyo this afternoon. And the voices of "experts" are numerous and confusing and congesting the human fund of individual. To some one thing is wrong and to others the same thing Today, words knowledge to the point that it is incomprehensible. It is estimated that over 1,000 books are published in the world each day. The opinions constantly fed to us by newspapers, radio and television are also unbelievably numerous. There is a danger that we may fail to hear the local thoughts and ideas, the "everyday" voices that in theory moldvoicesour near that at one surroundings, the time spoke with conviction in neighborhood stores and over back fences: Place: Seventh South between Second and Third East Time: Afternoon, Saturday July 28 Subject: Pornography First person interviewed: Mr. Pete Nielson, Sales Manager for Miller Honey, while making a delivery to the I mperial Market. Question : What are your opinions and ideas concerning pornography? Mr. Nielson: I'm against it one hundred percent all the way. don't think it should be available. A lot of people feel that this is contrary to human freedom. But on the other hand when young people in their formative years, ya know, are growing up, they can become addicted to this sort of thing and once it gets in their heads and in their skulls it never gets out. They have a distorted feeling for sex and think it's harmful to the relationships later in their is right. against pornography, at the same time, it encourages it and fosters it. Question: Do you think then that pornography is a good thing to counteract that trend? Ms. Pace: don't think that sex in any form, as long as it's I Question: So although you're against it you feel that when it comes right down to it it's up to the Individual? Mr. Nielson: Well you can't make people do what's right but I'm against it totally. Question: Being legalized, being available on the stands? Mr. Nielson: I am. I'd be of the opinion to fight it to keep it away from the stands, to keep it away from our young people, it's not necessary to have that as a stimulation for the young people. I think our maker is embedded within each of us, enough of the desire, enough of the drive and so forth that we can get maximum pleasure through our relationships with our wives later on. I don't think it's necessary. I am certain that it's detrimental to good relationships among husbands and wives. Those that go around seeking for this don't find it and those that don't seek do find. between two consenting adults, is bad. But I think it's bad to have a business that exploits women and makes money off of it and fosters the kind of thinking that women are to be used and that sexual relationships are not mutual give and take, they're exploitive. Question: How do you think we should discern what is desirable from what isn't desirable? Ms. Pace: I think it's going to take more than legislation. I think it's going to take a whole of society and our values, the way we raise our children and the way we look at other human beings. wonder if what Qjestion: helped you arrive at that feeling isn't pornography and having it around and the people that avail themselves of it? Ms. Pace: No, just being a woman is enough to help me arrive at that conclusion, believe me. rethinking I Pete Nielson I Henry Phillips I marriages. Question : Do you think if it was available but with an age restriction that that would have any influence? Mr. Nielson: think what's bad for young people is bad for old people as well. That's how I feel. Question : If you feel that way, do you think it should hold for all people? Do you think that's a I truth? Mr. Nielson: I feel that it's a truth. Of course other people have various opinions. But it seems to me that all the research that has been done on the matter would indicate that those people that grovel in this thing are those that don't necessarily make a big contribution to society. think it's just part of the pleasure pattern that people get involved in and they find themselves, they get engrossed, to the point where they diminish their other productivity. I Question: Who decides what is or is not pornographic? Carol Pace Second Voice: Ms. Carol Pace, housewife, pausing for a moment on her way to visit a r. Question: What are your opinions and ideas concerning pornography? Ms. Pace: Well, my main objection is that, or rather the decision, is not on pornography per se but the reasons they attack it. They don't attack it because it's exploiting women. Their attack is based on the puritan ethic. Let's face it, the puritan ethic exploits women just as much as anything. Question: What do you mean the puritan ethic exploits women as much as anything? Ms. Pace: Let's face it, the puritans were patriarchal. Right? And woman is less than human and she's an object to be used. So in a way although the puritan ethic is Question: So you don't think that pornography has any redeeming value to show people what is not desirable, to demonstrate a contrast in the world? Mr. Phillips: think it should be available to anyone who wants it. If that's your thing, do it. But I don't see why somebody should have to tell you what you can read I or cannot read. Ms. Pace: Well suppose you could use that argument if we had Question: What about the argument that if it's available anything that was showing the other side. downtown to you and I, then a lot of kids will get ahold of it? I Third Voice: Mr. Henry Phillips while out walking. Question: I was wondering if you think pornography should be available, who should decide what's dirty and that sort of thing? Mr. Phillips: I think everybody should do according to his own taste. If that's his thing let it be it. But as far as somebody else telling you what you should read and what you should not read, I don't think it's right. Question: So you think it should be available? It in Mr. Phillips: If they can't control it better than that don't think they should be able to sell it in the first place. It's just like liquor. They check you at the liquor store if you go in there under I age trying to buy liquor. If a man think he or more should be able to buy whatever he wants to read. So that's how I see it. twenty-on- e I Pays to advertise the S. L. is Neighborhood NewsAdvertiser! We reach 35,000 families each week! |