In reality, that statement is like saying cafeteria food is shite. The big issue I read about while down in DC this weekend was a local sen. Andrew P. Harris (R-Baltimore County) got wind of the University of Maryland’s film screening event of “Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge,” and is proposing a budget amendment which adds that any public university that allows the screening of a triple-X film would forfeit state funding for that year.
The University originally caved and canceled the showing, then a student uproar ensued and the showing is back on; not because of the forbidding of porn but the rights issue of political representatives pushing regulation on morality grounds. The GOP has been largely hypocritical when it comes to standing up against the “Nanny state” issues but pushing hard against adult related freedoms like sex and pornography.
Pornography has been shown on college campuses, other than in the locked dorm rooms of the male population but when “Deep Throat” made the original rounds. Why was the university showing this film? I suppose no one comes out any more to the Student Union, as one student claimed “Campus is gay and only the freshman have zero social life to spend their time hanging around there”. Porn is the way to bring back campus pride maybe?
Pirates II is probably one of the biggest budget porn movies (from the tailor below), and it’s been screening all over the country at Universities including Fresno and Davis University. It of course has a plot aka those parts most men fast forward through and it’s being shown to legally allowed persons over 18.
The most ironic thing about this is Mr. Harris’s campaign to ban the movie has provided millions in free publicity to the producers and he’s succeed in at least doubling the audience for this movie than originally planned had he just left well alone. The more you tell kids you can’t do something, human nature kicks in and becomes even more curious.
The other day I jumped on a near empty V line car at 2nd Ave and noticed on the seat across from me a bootleg DVD of Kung Fu Panda. Eyebrow raised and a quick look around, I noticed there were actually two; one resting on a seat a few rows down with no riders in close proximity to claim ownership to either. Cool. I’ll check it out.