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Copulatory Desire

The fact that the Senate cannot
shout down is that Man's desire to
copulate is second in strength only
to his need to eat. And it follows
that since people can't always have
direct sexual relations, a large number
will settle for the vicarious
experiences provided by pornography.

If the American people were
against pornography Congress
would not need to make laws
against it. People simply wouldn't
buy it. But the fact is that the
consumer demand for sexual material
in this country is quite large.
One need only inspect the volume
and diversity of legally available
prurient material. Sex, it seems, is
as flexible as Man himself and finds
its way into most of his activities.

Perhaps the best indicator of the
lascivious desires of the U.S. consumer
is the media: radio and T.V.
advertising, magazines, paperback
novels and the movies. The advertising
industry has always kept a good
index of what the American people
are thinking.

And here the sexual motif boggles
the mind. In the last decade,
there has been a mammoth proliferation
of sexy young ladies
vying for our attention and, more
importantly, our pocket money. If
John Q. Public didn't want to see
it, it would have died out before
now.