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waw...@sun23.cs.wisc.edu (Joel Wawrzon) writes:

>This doesn't mean that I want to see it advertised 
>between the pages of my copy of CGW.  There are plenty of other magazines
>and catalogs that cover this field pretty thoroughly.

You don't want to see it, but I might. And the advertisers want *me* to see 
it, not you (I think). Why do you want to cut on the info that I receive?

>>> Jojo is Dutch, so we can understand and forgive his confusion <G>.
>[No one ever accused the Dutch of being overly conservative ;-).]

I still fail to see the humour of your first remark.

>I never once passed judgement on anyone or even alluded to telling
>people what they should or should not do.

You are indirectly doing so when you're trying to pursuade CGW to 
withhold information that other people very much like to see.

>You're characterization of Americans was entertaining, Jurgen, and not
>completely without merit, but you forget that you never know who you're
>talking to on Usenet.  I've only spent part of the last four years in
>the U.S. because I'm going to University here.  I was born and live on
>the other side of the Atlantic.

Lucky you! :)

>Ridiculous.  Granted the Americans do produce a lot of porn, but 1% from
>Germany?!  You've *never* seen Dutch pornography?!  Give me a break.  

That's right. Doesn't mean that it doesn't exist of course. But it's 
obviously less common.

>be very beautiful, but pornography...oh, yeah!  That spoo
>dripping off her face 10 minutes after stud-boy met her...

Sounds like quite a boring porn movie that you've just seen.

>They have plenty of sources of advertising revenue.  It's sad to hear about
>fathers who can't even share their CGW with their kids because they feel
>the advertising has just gotten too raunchy.

Yes, I think it's sad. Not for the parents, but for the children. I think 
they're not getting the proper education. But I let them be, as long as 
these parents find another way of hiding sex from their children. Don't 
let them mess with 'my mag'.

>Granted the target audience
>is an adult one, but many adults don't want to see that kind of advertising
>in their mainstream magazines either.

I do. And the publisher does too.

What I think CGW should do is to poll their readers and find out about 
their opinion. My guess is that more than 50% of the readers don't care 
about the ads, or actually *want* them to be in it. The other part of the 
readers, even if it's still a significant number, will just have to shut 
up. And if it turns out to be the other way around, then I will shut up.

Jurgen.

(Quite strange to fight a verbal battle about this. I can't even remember 
seeing these porn ads. It shows how uninteresting they must be to me. But 
it's the thought that counts now.)