Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Found Porn


Sara Overstreet has a column in today's paper about pornography with an obscure reference to Nosferatu or something like that. I looked it up and I know it is a vampire and a lot of people follow it and there is a bunch of stuff on ebay. I am not sure what it means.
I linked somehow to a blog where this guy was talking about finding kiddie porn in the trash can at the incredible pizza place on South Campbell.
I remember the first time I saw pornography.
We used to live at 662 South Florence, across the street lived the pastor of Cherry Street Baptist Church and his family,next door lived a Colonel and his family. The colonel was the head of SMS ROTC. This was back in 1964. SMS was not as big then, it was surrounded by neighborhoods. A bunch of us guys from the neighborhood were cutting through campus to head over to Kings and Madison to go to a friend's house.
One of the guys saw a magazine thrown in the bushes that was fluttering in the wind. He picked it up, and started whopping and hollering. All of us clamored to see what he had found.
I had never seen anything like this before. Believe me, it was pretty amazing for 1964. I had never seen that much of a woman before.
One of us, I can't remember who it was, I know it wasn't me, threw it back in the bushes because, "That's nasty!"
Some of us wanted to keep it because, well why do teenaged boys look at Playboys? For the articles of course.
On the way back, we noticed the magazine was gone from where we threw it.
Which makes me wonder, has anyone else found pornography?
Re-reading, what was considered pornography in 1964 in Springfield MO, is tame as heck now.
Our house eventually became the Ecumenical Center and my brother's and my huge bedroom on the second floor was turned into the chapel. That was interesting

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