drawnai{at}hotmail.com wrote:
[...]

> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1366188,00.html
>
> Ooooh, ahhhhhhh (and a groan from the women's rights campaigner at
the
> back)
>
> Gerard Seenan
> Saturday December 4, 2004
> The Guardian
>
> It is not an activity generally associated with audience
participation.
> By its very nature, pornography is made for the voyeur rather than
> participant.
> But a new nightclub in Edinburgh is aiming to combine pornography
with
> the only activity which perhaps provokes more general embarrassment:
> karaoke. The somewhat unusual hybrid is being called pornaoke.

[...]

> Women's rights groups, however, are not convinced the club is really
so
> benign.

Did somebody ask them?

> Catherine Harper of the campaign group Scottish Women Against
> Pornography,

often referred to as the Scottish version of the Junior Anti-Sex
League,

> said: "I am so tired of hearing that clubs like this are
> just a bit of fun.

No one is interested in what tires you, Mrs Harper.

> It is sexist and tawdry beyond belief.

So don't go.

> "What you are talking about is yet another place where men and women
> are subjected to the influences that make them devalue each other's
> sexuality."

Mrs. Carper, is it not enough for you and your comrades to work
yourselves into a state of frenzied clucking over this?  Do you also
have to force your morality on everyone else?
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