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Avedon Carol
Avedon Carol is a member of _Feminists Against Censorship_
(http://www.fiawol.demon.co.uk/FAC/) , and a former member of the executive committee of the
_National Council for Civil Liberties_
(http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/) (Liberty). Over the past 25 years, she has carried out extensive research
on sex crime.
Main publications:
Carol, A. Nudes, Prudes and Attitudes: Pornography and Censorship.
Cheltenham, _New Clarion Press_ (http://www.newclarionpress.co.uk/nudes.html) .
(1994).
Carol, A. & Assiter, A. (eds.). Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures: The Challenge
to Reclaim Feminism. London, Pluto Press. (1993).
Summary of Carol Avedon's speech on 'Porn & the Net: An explosion of
fantasy, a new danger, or just more of the same old same old?'
* Police resources are being removed from the places where they
actually do good. What they do not do is stopping children from being abused or
raped and in some cases they may cause it because the more you promote negative
messages about sex the more you create the conditions to encourage people to
harm others.
* Sex crimes are generally committed by
* people who come from very repressive families, strongly opposite to
sex
* people frequently punished for looking at sexual imagery.
* The last thing we want is
* to promote the attitudes that cause those feelings 'Why do we spend
so much time talking about the evils of pornography?'
* We hear some very odd arguments against sex.
* No documentary case of anyone being harmed at any age by seeing
sexual imagery.
* The entertainment industry - we always have stories about killing
and lying. For example, if you take the nasty stuff out of Shakespeare's work,
very little left.
* Technology is no more dangerous than it has ever been. The printing
press, movies, and video were all thought to pose the same dangers as the
Internet.
* The Internet connects each other, and is another excuse for leaders
to find reasons why we don't have the right to talk.
* Police are always needed. Watch and see who is talking and maybe
they could find out about real criminals.
* Questions raised:
* Do the police have any more reason to read our mail then they did
before?
* Do the police have the right to care what kind of erotic material we
look at?
* _ Audio File (73Kb)_
(http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/beyond/control/mp3/Carol1.mp3)
* Criticism about the Internet is not new:
* better when these criticisms are applied to newspapers
* critical stories are not checked for accuracy. For example, a false
story about an Internet provider accused of child pornography appeared on the
front page of a newspaper.
* Laws should protect people, and should focus on, for example,
fighting bad working conditions. For example, research carried out by the US
government many years ago was ignored by President Nixon as the results were not
what he wanted to hear. It was found that people who were rapist had seen less
pornography than normal people.
* _Audio file (114Kb)_
(http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/beyond/control/mp3/Carol2.mp3)
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PS Would it help if we could persuade her and like minded colleagues to
write or speak for us to Home Office. deno posted 7th June
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