poll for deleting snuff stories

[Donatien]

[Quote:
Originally Posted by boccaccop200g
The ACLU stood up for blacks when they were being lynched in the south. They stood up for Jews when there were quotas on Jewish admissions to certain colleges and universities. They stood up for Japanese-Americans when they were being thrown in concentration camps during World War II. They stood up for freedom of thought and association during they hysterical frenzy of post-WW II McCarthyism.

And they will stand up for you if the right-wing zealots in this country ever decide to go after pornographers and their readers and viewers.

[QUOTE=alex Bragi
Only, I can’t help but feel that you’re trivialising the rights of women, jews, blacks and the minority groups mentioned in this manifesto by comparing them to a bunch of blue movies, dirty pictures and sex stories. I simply fail to see the equation between someone not getting all the porn they think they’re entitled to and being discriminated against because of your race, sex, or religion.

And, of course I will always be on the front line of anyone who dares to harm or corrupt “society’s most vulnerable members”—our kids. And that’s why, to that degree, I do support a certain amount of censorship.[/QUOTE]



Alex I think Boccaccio's post has to be looked at in the context of him defending the record of ACL in its work supporting a range of freedoms.

Nevertheless I think it is right and proper for society to protect the freedoms of minors, even if that means censorship of some material especially photographic and some aspects of chat rooms, where they are used for “grooming”.

However my main point is on the question of whether snuff stories should be excluded, and I think that would be a pity, when all the dulcettt inspired ones are so sidesplittingly funny. How any one can take a story seriously, when a beautiful teen calmly discusses the finer culinary skills whilst she is the one roasting on a spit, is beyond me.

Another point is that throughout history, certain personality types, usually left brain dominant,who regard themselves as the arbitors of what is right, and being ambitious frequently get to the top of organisations and govenments, tend to pronounce on issues such as pornography, denouncing it virulently, only to be found time and again as regular users of it, along with being the authoritarian sadists that I have referred to in the thread on sadism. They were hate figures to De Sade, who held strong views against the abuse of power by the strong, long before they got him locked up as a pornographer, and liberteen, when their real purpose was revenge, that he had dared to depict their truly rapacious, and hypocritical attitudes in his novels. Nothing changes, except technology. So the very figures who are most antagonistic to porn or the like are not infrequently the greatest users, something they justify to themselves on the basis , that unlike lesser mortals, they are not corruptible!

[teeny70]

Freedom of speech is the issue. If you start banning one subject, soon you will be banning another and another. Look at the reader's response and votes for these stproes. amd you will be convinced that they belong here and are appreciated by many. In fact, some of them have top ratings, and include many other subjects in the story. If you ban, authors will go elsewhere, and BDSM Library will be that much diminished.

"Give me liberty AND give me Death".

[pejanon]

I don't like snuff (death+sex) but that is MY problem.
Eros\Thanatos is worthy avenue of exproration.
Codes and warning are fair but ban, censorship etc are THE ORIGINAL DIRTY WORDS. Don' even THINK about it
Thank you
Have fun.

Pejanon

[BDSM_Tourguide]

I'm pretty sure that, unless the government makes stories about snuff illegal, the snuff category isn't going anywhere on this website. This thread does spark some fun and interesting conversations every month or so, though. It is quite interesting to read different people's views.

[pejanon]

Actually if snuff stories were made illegal we might just get BETTER snuff stories!

Just kidding.

[Kelli]

I personally will not read a snuff story, but that's just me. If you don't like them, then don't read them. No one is forcing you too, and there are many other stories out there without it for you to read. Freedom of speech, please don't be trying to take it away from the authors.

[agp_millie]

I personally will not read a snuff story, but that's just me. If you don't like them, then don't read them. No one is forcing you too, and there are many other stories out there without it for you to read. Freedom of speech, please don't be trying to take it away from the authors.

I'm amazed this 'thread' has gone for so long. There are many things out There that are as bad, if not worse than snuff, that we read in our Daily Tabloids.

Fiction is imagination, FACT is fact. Okay, there are many murders comitted with imagination. In fact, one of my favourites of all time has got to be Sweeny Todd.
Maybe some of you haven't heard of Mr.& Mrs. Sweeny Todd, Barber's & Famous meat pies. ... Well, apart from how single, no ties men got haircuts there cheap on thursdays and a quick slit of the throat with Mr.Todd's razor and the drop down into the cellar below, thru' a trapdoor in the chair. Ingenious.
How Mrs.Todd used to drag the bodies to the hanging area. A badly in need of hygene place where she hung the 'meat' to drain of blood and made it into delicious 'Black puddings' [Google-it.] which reminds me, we do that with our sows placenta. But that is traditional.
And then Mrs.Todd worked her human hair socks off to get out pie after pie of various cuts of the human torso.

Being as i love my cooking, if only my Hubby was a Barber, we could open up 'Hackers Barbers. Hairdressor to the non-newsworthy' and 'Hackers Olde English Pye Shoppe' ... anyway,

I digress. Totally agree with Kelly. What about a thread on Cooking meat? Would anyone be interested in more unusual methods? All mammals are available as well as fish, ofcourse.