“I was once asked whether my first sexual encounter was homosexual or heterosexual. I don’t know. I was too polite to ask.”
- Truman Capote
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“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”
- Susan Sontag
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“It’s absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
- Oscar Wilde
Quotable Quotes – “Messing Around”
April 4, 2008 at 7:39 am (Gender quotes, Uncategorized)
Tags: Gender quotes
In the News: Japan to outlaw possession of child pornography
March 12, 2008 at 4:31 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: child pornography, Japan, pornography
Justin McCurry writes in the Guardian that Japan “is to bow to international pressure and ban the possession of child pornography, although the new law is expected to anger child welfare groups by exempting manga comics and animated films.”
From the article: “Japan and Russia are the only G8 countries where it is still legal to own pornographic images of children, provided there is no intention to sell them or post them on the internet.
Japan is one of the world’s biggest suppliers of child pornography and the second biggest consumer after the US, despite a 1999 law that banned the production, sale and distribution of images of children under 18. The government decided to act following scathing public criticism by the US ambassador to Tokyo, Thomas Schieffer.
“The term ‘child pornography’ misrepresents the heinous nature of this crime,” Schieffer wrote in a recent newspaper article. “Unlike some people in adult pornography, children are not willing or paid participants. The majority of images and videos depict the violent and brutal sexual assault of children, most of them younger than 12 years old. We are talking about child rape.”
Quotable Quotes – March 04 2008
March 4, 2008 at 5:55 am (Uncategorized)
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.
- Vince Poscente, Olympian (1961- )
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Interviewer: You’ve said that what happened in ‘68 had a profound impact on the world as a whole. What did you mean by that?
Bernardo Bertolucci: The life before ‘68 was very different from the life after ‘68. Before ‘68, our days were full of authoritarian moments. There were authorities everywhere. In fact, the movement of ‘68 was young people against their authorities, children against their parents. And that remained. The most important thing of all, the thing that lasted, was the first feminist movement and the position of women in society. That completely changed and that was very, very important.
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“Do you really believe that the Jesus who was depicted in the Scriptures as being on the side of those who were vilified, those who were marginalized, that this Jesus would actually be supporting groups that clobber a group that is already persecuted? That’s a Christ I would not worship. I’m glad that I believe very fervently that Jesus would not be on the side of gay bashers. To think that people say, as they used to say, that AIDS was God’s punishment for homosexuality. Abominable. Abominable.”
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer
