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very well.

Now, the Supreme Court, for example, has said in the area of pornography that it is not illegal to read or keep hard-core pornography in your own home. That is a personal right that you have. To have the state come in and say, “My God, look at the dirty pictures” in an individual's own home is an invasion of that individual's Constitutional right of privacy. I believe in that.

I also believe that you have to deal with the fact that a lot of people like pornography. As I said on the Abend show: “Pornography -- it ain't all bad.” When you go to Italy, as I went in June, what's the biggest thing by way of an attraction at Pompeii? It's a box that they open, and they do it in a very salacious way. They take you to a room that was a porno room back 2-, 3000 years ago in Pompeii with the pictures of every sexual position imaginable on the wall in full living color. And then when you leave, they have this guard standing at the entrance, and there's a metal box, and every five minutes on cue, he opens the box and there in the box is a statue of an individual with the largest, like a foot-long erection, of a guy that's only two foot high. And people love it. I was on this tour with 18 Congressmen and their wives. They stood in front of that box and they loved it. Right?

What I'm saving is that there is a desire with a good number of people to have some salacious kicks. I don't consider that





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