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To: DMaA who wrote (43388)	5/10/2004 7:37:34 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793723

Mapplethorpe took photos of gay men who voluntarily posed for them, in various unsettling poses, some of them involving sadism and masochism, aka "S&M", and for some that is art. I think Mapplethorpe was a great photographer but the gay porno stuff isn't something I like. He did a much more aesthetically pleasing job on flowers, I think. Yes, art is in the eye of the beholder. Forcing people in prisons to submit to your private perversions and fetishes doesn't quality as art. There is nothing consensual about sex between a prison guard and a prisoner. The coercive nature of the environment makes it rape in the eyes of the law. Some argue that it is possible to have consensual sexual relations with little children, too, but they're also wrong. Your spirited defense of dehumanizing and degrading Iraqi prisoners is sickening.