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Mar. 4, 2007 I personally detest all pornography. I love the looks of beautiful, graceful and gracious ladies, but I hate it when women allow themselves to be photographed in overly suggestive poses, revealing their genitalia. I also hate any pictures of oral or anal sodomy, whether same-sex or opposite-sex. And it goes without saying that I would hate any pornography that involves children, though I have never seen any. My personal life is a model of sexual continence. I have never committed any sexual act, either heterosexual or homosexual, outside of marriage. And I never look at any pornography of any kind whatsoever. However, my private fantasies and writings, all of which are perfectly innocent sexually to tell the truth, still would probably not be to most people's tastes, so I don't discuss them. But I would feel that my privacy had been invaded if someone hacked my e-mail accounts, discovered some of my romantic tales and published them on-line in order to hold me up to ridicule, or for any other reason. As I've mentioned several times in the past, in addition to my sexual continence, I do not take drugs, drink, smoke or overeat, and I exercise regularly. In other words, I lead a 100% wholesome existence, which probably most people would find boring and unexciting. But my interests lie in various scholarly pursuits, like linguistics and mathematics, and in travel. You might say I have sublimated my sexual drives into more constructive channels. At the age of 69, I can entertain no thought about starting a family or even marrying again, so, as I see it, involving myself in romantic entanglements would lead only to disappointment. Moreover, I cannot afford to house, clothe and feed another person. However, when I read about a man sentenced to 200-years in prison for the mere possession of electronic child pornography on his personal computer, unbeknownst even to his wife, a man whom no one has accused of touching any children in the school where he taught, which after all was a high school, not a grammar school or kindergarten, I think that that is going too far. People get lighter sentences even for second-degree murder, arson, armed robbery and other violent and destructive crimes. The punishment ought to be made to fit the offense. I was shocked that the US Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal. Of course, there is always the possibility that some of the more incriminating elements in the indictment were omitted intentionally or unintentionally from the newspaper accounts. But I'm dumbfounded. How can Americans fault Saudi Arabians for executing homosexuals when they hand out life-imprisonments for downloading electronic pornography? Of course, it would be different if Morton Berger, the man who was sentenced to 200 years without parole, had actually acted upon his fantasies in any way, but nothing I read suggested that he had. In the worst case, his 20 counts should have been allowed to run concurrently rather than consecutively, which would have amounted to 10 years, still a stiff sentence, rather than 200. If you're going to give me 200 years, just shoot me and get it over with. ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far. I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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