Fear and Loathing: Porn talk now mainstream in Staunton
August 28, 2008 by chrisgraham
Fear and Loathing in Staunton column by Chris Graham
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“Reducing the inventory down to one-on-one doesn’t do anything for me.” Wow, Ray. What would do it for you? Solo scenes?
The Crusade that Robertson has spent your tax dollars to fight sure has done what we’d all hoped. Oh, yeah. Because what we all wanted was an excuse to discuss in great detail with friends and complete strangers alike the kinds of sex scenes that appear in pornographic films.
It’s almost to a point where you have to wonder if the publicly puritanical Robertson isn’t secretly getting his jollies out of being, ahem, forced to talk at length about double-penetration or, as he let slip in his chat with The News Leader earlier this week, his understanding that the jury that he empaneled in the trial of Rick Krial and After Hours Video found a video obscene because of scenes involving anal sex immediately followed by oral sex.
“It’s pretty sick stuff,” Robertson told the paper, after sharing with the Leader that he believes that Krial’s attorney has advised his client to rid his store of DVDs that display multiple-partner sex in an effort to comply with “community standards.”
For those keeping score at home, we’ve talked about one-on-one, solo, jollies, length, anal-oral and multiple-partner sex in a span of 350 words. I’d say it would be hard to do that otherwise without trying to be intentionally provocative, but then I’d probably get in trouble with Nannystate Ray for using the words “hard” and “provocative” in the same sentence.
Does this strike anyone else but me as being odd that somebody so worried about protecting his town would in so doing make the very thing that he wants to protect his town from so blasted mainstream?
I dunno, maybe I’m an army of one on this one.
Probably a good thing, considering the “community standards.”
After reading and reviewing the information and details about the pornography trial and about Ray Robertson, the elderly Commonwealth attorney in Staunton, I believe that the man has the community’s best interests at heart.
He has done a difficult but essential job, that of defining exactly what is obscene and what is not…what sexual acts are acceptable to the community and which ones are pornographic.
I entreat Mr. Robertson to continue in his efforts and, rather than allowing his hard work to evaporate into thin air once the trial is over or to risk having his words and definitions misinterpreted by others, he should put these interpretations, descriptions, and elucidations into print.
The citizens of Staunton need a shepherd and guide to usher them through the labyrinthian traps and dangers of potential or possible pornography. They need a map, a guidebook handy when the services of a spiritual counselor or a Ray Robertson aren’t at their elbow to counsel or advise.
Perhaps Commonwealth Attorney Robertson could work along with the Citizens Task Force Against Pornography to produce a pamphlet or booklet with descriptions and illustrations (much in the fashion of those emergency escape pamphlets one sees in airline seat pockets) that would delineate the positions, practices and partnerings which he has deemed pornographic and forbidden. Rather than nebulous statements from various “experts” about what is proper and what is not, this illustrated guide would act as a bulwark and touchstone for the community.
This brochure could be made easily available in curbside newspaper boxes throughout Staunton, and handed out “Welcome Wagon” style to newcomers to Staunton so they could be apprised as to what the city’s standards of acceptable sexual behavior are. It also might be right at home in hotel and motel room dresser drawers alongside the Gideon Bible.
Perhaps Attorney Robertson could produce a video in which he, as the host, could recapitulate his points made during the trial and narrate these elements along with illustrations taken from the pamphlet. This video could be sold commercially at video stores. Perhaps local television stations could air it as a public service.
We can all look forward to the day when Attorney Robertson cleans up the streets of Staunton, and when the only pornography he watches will be on his computer.
good idea, likes it quiet. and the taxpayers could pay for the brochure. after all, we got nothing else to spend our money on.