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Re: "objections to bondage"

To: Rich Urschel <OSP13@attglobal.net>, "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com>
Subject: Re: "objections to bondage"
From: Alan Gruner <algruner@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 21:44:58 -0800 (PST)
--- Rich Urschel <OSP13@attglobal.net> wrote:
I guess we'll have to focus on geting sponsorship from
more socially accepted sources like tobacco companies.
:-)
 
> Brooks,
> Speaking as but one member of the SFR Steering
> Committee
> who finds nothing "safe, sane, and consensual"
> objectionable,
> I would never vote to allow the words "Bondage.Com"
> on
> one our participants' car for the following reason:
> 
> SOED:
> Bondage, n. Sadomasochism involving binding, hand
> cuffs, etc.
> 
> That's a hot button. Just consider MTV's refusal to
> play
> one of Madonna's videos with simulated (actually
> just hinted)
> S&M after hawking it for a week. (Don't cry for her,
> it was her
> best seller.)
> 
> There are people who object to AUTOCROSSING.
> Displaying morally provocative words on our cars
> would be
> tantamount to giving political ammunition to the
> enemy.
> 
> Now I have to go edit my Netscape browser files.
> Rich Urschel
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