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Continued from page 3.

Some astounding facts

are presented in Not

7 a Love Story. PorrT—g film theatres in Canada gross ten million dollars a week. In the field of home entertainment, pornographic video ‘ cassettes outsell all others by-a rated of a ratio of three to one. There are _four_ times as many adult bookstores in the U.S. as there are 'MacDonalds Restaurants. ‘

What sort of people operate these places? The film says that adult bookstores are mostly controlled by organized crime. Peep— show houses and strip joints are run by men who feel they are doing the public a service by providing what people clamor for. These owners only have to point to attendance figures to justify keeping their shOps Open. '

' As' with/so many other commodities, f _ Canada is a market colony of the U.S. when it comes to mag— azine pornography. Sixty percent of these magazines currently on the market in-

Canada are for men. In' the past ten years, magazine pornography in Canada has expanded one thousand times to reap five billion dollars income each"

. year. Both Playboy and Penthouse have a . greater. circulation than Time or NewsWeek combined. _

"THere were eight mag— azines oh the stands two years ago, where now there are thirty- two", points out David S. Wells,'the editor/

~ publisher of Rustler andElite. "‘Ihe stand- ards -~ are now rougher, magaZines are more explicit... . this came about because of the woman's movement. Men IEWE,sPﬂiad‘u>ieel, more etesculated and... they like to fant—*

asize about women. ~. They “would prefer to a dominate these . as publishers/we don't

. create these magazines to degrade women,'vbut if a men'already' thinks .

\ .that awcman is degraded, '

then (our magazines)

just

1 a:

Porrngraphy on

Not a Love Story showed the mixed re- actions of female strip— tease artists, peep- show dollies,and porn— oraphic actors to their jobs. One female stipper kncwm as Little Red _ Riding Hood described her act as "Not erotic, but a parody of what I should be. The aud— ience gives me immed— iate love, not lasting

/ love... a sex club

is a very honest arena,

- where -v everyone is acting

on an animal level."

The husband-wife live sex ShCM team of Patrice and Rick Lucas explain their feelings: "We -’ make people realize what they do isn't wrong. We don't show the audience anything they don't want to do." Patrice says she is not ashamed to perform with her husband on

' stage, because they

lOve eachiotler. She continues; "My mother was a prostitute, so I'

knew sex since I was six years old. I I figure the

average white business— man watches because it is degrading to women." Marc Stevens, a porn— ographic movie actor, agrees with Patrice Lucas' concluding statement, He says,“I worked in leather, but got out of it two years ago when I felt that what I was doing de— graded a woman."

Dr. Ed Donnerstein, a research psychologist, suggests that not only does porn reduce women to card‘ward cutouts, but it legitimizes agg—. ression towards women. "In pornography the men

' who rape are macho

heroes." Marc Stevens expressed the same thought: "I always looked mad while performing sex bec-V ause I felt that I ' always, had to' perform. I got out because I was

' expected to do too much. "

A fer feminist writers were given the opp- ' ortunity to express their concern over porn'? ’

The UPEI SUN, November 19, 1981, page 9

tinued ' '

ography. Surprisingly to some, perhaps, they did not react violent- ly, but instead pre— sented ti'leir opinions quietly and powerfully. They despaired that the camera never caught the love that may exist in pornographic films.

Kate Millett, writer artist, feels people need these magazines because man never have enough sex, love, or partners. Magazine pornography, she thinks, played an educational role up to a point, but argues, "we got-porno— graphy (which is against sex and love) when what we wanted was eroticism (for sex and love) ."

Pornography has far— reaching effects on women. Many wives face rejection because they cannot live up to their husband's increasing expectations of women.

The intention of the women who made this film seems not to have offered any course of action, but to generate public awareness of the degrading effects of pornography on women. Subconsciously, perhaps, Not a Love Story categorizes women who realize that pornography is degrading as feminists because it seems that radical feminists, with their blunt haircuts, plain dress, and lack of any makeup, were inter- viewed .in the movie. ,

Overall, however, Not a love Story is honest and powerful. mat re- mains with the viewer's mind are not the facts and opinions expressed, but the many violent and debasing images of wmen allowing themselves to be subjected to the pleasures of men.

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TIME: PLACE:

FRED DRISCOLL AT U.P.ELI.

I

‘Minis'ter-of Education, Fred Driscoll, will be at U.P.E.I. on Monday, 23rd "November..-

university and general public will .be welcome at this" meeting;

There will be an extensive question period.

2:30 p.m.:e Monday, November 23rd, 1981 Robertson Library Lecture, ‘

Driscoll will be adressing' first year Political Science students, but other members of the

‘ Threatre (Room' 111)

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