Page 8AThe Battalion/Wednesday, February 20, 1985
Prof speaks about pornography
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By trayce BERTLING “Violent pornography creates a climate in which rape, aids franchises nationwide.
„ ... . epo ^ er wife-beating and child molesting are not only consul- „ ..., t , , ... .. ...
Dr. Wendy Stock, a I exas A&M l ■'* Q , • kight out of 10 serial killers
psychology professor, expressed ercd normal, but sexualfy stimulating. —Dr. Wendy suidied h\ the i ni i...<i Mewed p<».-
concern about the relationship be- gimk, % TeXUS A&M psychology prOfeMOr . nography or had it in theirposses-
iween porno^r.iphs and moIi’ih e to / ^ r ~- ’ shm |>1101 io 01 <Im mg the crime,
ward women at the monthly meeting ■
of the Brazos County National Orga- “The focus in these magazines is Dr. Billie Trail, NOW member, • The FBI reported that a
nization for Women Tuesday night. on male sexual gratification, not that voiced concern over how women’s woman is forcibly raped every seven
Stock’s speech included a slide there is anything wrong with that, sexual roles are perceived. minutes and a woman is beaten in
presentation of pictures and adver- but there should be more equality,” “Pornography makes women sex her home or on the streets every 18
tisements from various magazines — Stock said. objects — which are non-human and seconds.
ranging from Vogue to Penthouse to Young boys learn from sexually something to use,” Trail said. Stock attributes the increase in vi-
hardcore publications such as Hus- explicit magazines, she said. Trail supports First Amendment olent pornography to two things,
tier and Gallery. “When young boys start wonder- rights and doesn’t know where the One is that people get bored see-
“Violent pornography creates a ing about sex they usually don’t have line should be drawn. “There’s a ing the same old thing. The other is
climate in which rape, wife-beating access to a sexual partner so they conflict in there somewhere,” Trail that since men haven’t adjusted to
and child molesting are not only pick up a pornographic magazine,” said. the social and economic strides
considered normal, but sexually Stock said. “These young men are Some shocking statistics from the women have made they still can pick
stimulating,” she said. learning how to act sexually by see- New York l imes were given by up a copy of Penthouse magazine
Stock feels it is unfortunate that ing women being tied up, beaten, or Stock: * and see a woman being degraded.
Penthouse and Playboy are defining raped and packaged to look as if • There are four times as many Supposedly this makes the man feel
men’s sexuality in today’s society. they enjoy it.” sex emporiums as there are McDon- superior.
Student Senate to considf
horse racing, library fundi
A bill calling for the Texas
A&M Student Senate to support
parimutuel betting and horse rac
ing will be introduced during the
Senate’s meeting tonight.
A resolution recommending
that SI.700 be transferred from
the Student Service Fee Reserve
Account to the Sterling C. Evans
Library also will be introduced.
The library resolution specifies
that the money would be used to
A resolution recomiw
that the Senate oppose ant 15
lion of library services also*
introduced. This resolution
that the University plaits| 0|
cate 2,500 square feet on^
floor of the library tothtH,
opment Foundation, eliniQ
some student seating.
fund the expansion of library
hours. In explanation of the rec
ommendation. it says that the li
brary administration had an
nounced that it could not fund
the planned expansion of library
hours because of expected Uni
versity budget cuts.
The resolution also
that the University ahead,
\ ides seating for less than 15
cent of the student both,
national standards rccon-,
seating for 30 percentoffo
dent population.
The meeting will begin a;'
p.m. in 204 Harrington.
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