SI SWIMSUITS

[Peter Genco <fairview@IU05TRC.TRINET.K12.PA.US>]

Greetings,

I have found some of the discussion on the SI Swimsuit issue extremely
disturbing.  I shudder at the fact that there are still librarians who are
self censors.  Such people, in my opinion, are a detriment to the
profession.  If we all took a more healthy, mature attitude to such
materials, we whould not have a problem or a need for this discussion.  This
material is not pornography.  It might be degrading to women, but that is
where the line should be drawn.  Perhaps we should focus our attention on
the women who subject themselves to this degradation by posing for such
publishing ventures.

If any one is a member of an interlibrary loan system, do we not have an
obligation to maintain our collections in their entirety?

I have never had a problem with a SI Swimsuit issue.  I have never removed
it from the collection.  What I have done is stamp the library stamp all
over the issue.  Students want to illegally withdrawl this issue to decorate
lockers, rooms, notebooks, etc.  No one wants to decorate with multiple
stamps on each body.

Peter Genco
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PETER GENCO
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