Should UCLA show the porno X-rated film, "Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge"?

by Fef Posted November 25, 2008 21:13:40

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	No, UCLA should not allow screen a porno because...	71 votes	28%
	Yes, UCLA can show whatever movie it wants because...	156 votes	62%
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UCLA Campus Events Commission will present a screening of the X-rated film, Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge. Pirates II is the sequel to Pirates which was the most expensive pornographic film made.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A; panel with the director Joone, producer and CEO of Digital Playground, Samantha Lewis, lead male actor Evan Stone and female actress Riley Steele.
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As an American, I think the college should show some restraint and decency. The school has the right to screen it, but they did this as an official event unrelated to any class or coursework.

As a Californian taxpayer, it upsets me to see how the state decided to spend my money - porn for horny co-eds. They have the Internet for that!

As a USC Trojans, it makes me laugh. What a bunch of losers.

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AnneMac November 26, 2008 19:01:01

Yes, UCLA can show whatever movie it wants because...

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Frankly, the only requirement is that all students be at least 18 years of age. That makes them legal adults, free to enjoy any form of entertainment that is legal. I love that they are including a Q&A; panel after the showing. Heck, if they are going to watch some porn at college, it makes sense for them to at least study the business end of the film.

People get so worked up about sex in film. It amazes me, because they will give movies with tons of violence and gore an R rating, but show sexual intercourse, and that is somehow worse than witnessing murder, violence, violence against women, simulated child abuse, simulated rape, and all kinds of other violent topics. Christian conservatives are perfectly FINE with their teens watching a person hold an AK-47 and gun down a dozen "bad guys," but to see that same person's genitals is so horrific that they slap an X rating on it and expect pervy old men in rain coats and hats to sneak into theaters to watch it.

What is wrong with our society that a little sexual play is WORSE than serial killers, murder and all kinds of violence?
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änimèkìssès August 27, 2009 10:23:38

Yes, UCLA can show whatever movie it wants because...

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well who suckin cares.

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Fef to änimèkì... August 29, 2009 05:58:58

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Just us taxpayers who fund the UCLA education system in bankrupt California

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änimèkì... to Fef September 06, 2009 04:57:19

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(I was in lousy mood when i wrote that).. What I mean is, as long as the age requirements meet to the level required, then It is allowed too. So why not?

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Fef to änimèkì... September 08, 2009 19:15:37

I hope you feel better now :)
I know a great film to see that may cheer you up!

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änimèkì... to Fef September 16, 2009 10:44:54

hope soo :D

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James August 25, 2009 23:38:49 (edited)

Yes, UCLA can show whatever movie it wants because...

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They made it, they can show it, otherwise, waste of money!

LET THE PORN BE WITH YOU!!!!!!

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chocola... to James August 27, 2009 17:10:18

=) nice yoda

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chocolateshake August 25, 2009 20:32:25

Yes, UCLA can show whatever movie it wants because...

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go go go! tis is 1 of th reasons we vloted yes 4 th free speech law ur telln me ur getn cold feet NOW! hell id go c it myself- it wud b extremeoy weird tho- & start a rally or sumtin! =)

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Superman January 12, 2009 19:21:55

Yes, UCLA can show whatever movie it wants because...

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First off, Evan Stone is hilarious. I just thought I'd get that out of the way.

Second, whats with the Q and A? Shouldn't this just have been a late Saturday night screening that frats and sororities and nerds could all go to drunk? I'm curious why this had to be held in a serious fashion, with a q and a and all that?

Then again, it is California. Half of the females on UCLAs campus are either already in amateur porn or will be recruited into the porn industry. Maybe this was just a career day.

Either way, better Pirates II than Loose Change or An Inconvient Truth.

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Fef to Superman January 12, 2009 19:38:03

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Yes, they should act honestly with their intentions and even put it in brochures for prospective students -- "we show more porn than any other university!"

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Superman to Fef January 12, 2009 19:48:45

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Yeah, thats actually gonna increase enrollment. At least it will increase male enrollment.

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spcantwell December 13, 2008 13:08:18

Yes, UCLA can show whatever movie it wants because...

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its porn, like anyone needs a reason to watch more porn?

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CMK December 09, 2008 06:38:39

No, UCLA should not allow screen a porno because...

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No - really. What is the purpose? Just so they can get in the paper about this? There really is no reason the people who want to see this can't just go rent it or download it. I can't think of a good reason for UCLA to do this. Maybe they have the right to, but I don't think they should.

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Fef to CMK January 12, 2009 06:20:13

I can't figure it out either... I see it as a sign of decay of public education.

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BRADY969 to Fef January 12, 2009 12:42:45

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I think that everytime I turn on The CW.

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Fef to BRADY969 January 12, 2009 19:39:35

and don't you just hate it!

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BRADY969 to Fef January 13, 2009 12:16:53

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Yeah, she's such a decay of my brain...lol

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Roxie December 08, 2008 00:06:50

No, UCLA should not allow screen a porno because...

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That might put the Pussy-Cat theatre chain out of business!
No Porn is not art!

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Fef to Roxie January 12, 2009 06:21:10

You make an excellent point. No wonder the porn industry asked for a bailout. They have competition from California public universities.

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MercuryX23 December 06, 2008 18:23:58

No, UCLA should not allow screen a porno because...

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it's unnecessary controversy. The programmers of the event want attention so they can make a 1st amendment point, but it just seems to me that there are so many other films they could be focusing on...

As for USC, well, having attended a few graduate film screening on that campus, including seeing a film that included a vomit-inducing pornographic "performance art" film that featured an artist painting herself with her own feces...let's just say the Trojans have no moral high ground to speak of (and a really crappy basketball team! Ever heard of the Final Four?...No? Thought so...)

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Fef to MercuryX23 January 12, 2009 06:26:17

I didn't know 2-girls-1-cup came out of USC... or anything even comparable. I will hold back my next donation to the school if I find that they did allow a film like that.

I wish football had a final four.

As for Final Four, did that come after Final Fantasy III?

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Scroller December 06, 2008 17:40:14

No, UCLA should not allow screen a porno because...

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I'm a student at UCLA and found out about the screening through the school newspaper. With an open mind, I decided to attend. The movie was violent (at least to my standards) with men slapping women, women slapping women, men calling women degrading names, or women calling women degrading names in the lesbian scenes. Not to mention ejaculating on women's faces in almost every sex scene. As well as choking women with their penis to the point of gagging. One of the main themes of the movie was to portray men as dominant with women serving their sexual needs and acting in subservient roles. Apparently violence is sexy? This was basically just sexist propaganda that came out of my tuition, which is basically taxpayer money since I was awarded a CalGrant like other UCLA students. The Q&A; panel afterwards was in poor taste, as well. A few questions by students were how to get into the industry, and what one of the actresses was doing later... Educational my patoot. One of the only questions that could be deemed "educational" was a student who saw the original and asked why the sequel was so much more aggressive. To which the director replied, that he had to make it darker because, "where are you really going to go from the first one?" Many students booed at the boy who asked that question...

I'm a student at UCLA and found out about the screening through the school newspaper. With an open mind, I decided to attend. The movie was violent (at least to my standards) with men slapping women, women slapping women, men calling women degrading names, or women calling women degrading names in the lesbian scenes. Not to mention ejaculating on women's faces in almost every sex scene. As well as choking women with their penis to the point of gagging. One of the main themes of the movie was to portray men as dominant with women serving their sexual needs and acting in subservient roles. Apparently violence is sexy? This was basically just sexist propaganda that came out of my tuition, which is basically taxpayer money since I was awarded a CalGrant like other UCLA students. The Q&A; panel afterwards was in poor taste, as well. A few questions by students were how to get into the industry, and what one of the actresses was doing later... Educational my patoot. One of the only questions that could be deemed "educational" was a student who saw the original and asked why the sequel was so much more aggressive. To which the director replied, that he had to make it darker because, "where are you really going to go from the first one?" Many students booed at the boy who asked that question and another student who asked about how human trafficking could possibly be attributed to pornography. How can this panel be considered educational if students were basically encouraged not to speak out from the other side of the issue?
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Fef to Scroller January 12, 2009 06:27:27

Thanks for that first hand account.

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Superman to Scroller January 12, 2009 19:27:42

I take it you've never had a

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adellabella December 06, 2008 01:03:01

Yes, UCLA can show whatever movie it wants because...

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if we can send our kids to war, they should have the "option" to watch porn - remember this was not a FORCED screening

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SHER♥ December 04, 2008 21:35:03

Yes, UCLA can show whatever movie it wants because...

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Wether I like it or not, the students are 18 years of age. I don't want anymore of our freedoms taken from us. Besides, it's not like they haven't seen worse.

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Art December 04, 2008 01:28:38 (edited)

No, UCLA should not allow screen a porno because...

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UCLA is turning porno into something dirty.

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lovelykitten December 04, 2008 00:19:07

No, UCLA should not allow screen a porno because...

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Does a school really want to encourage this... ???? If you are an adult and have means to watch it in your own home, then you make the choice.... but no way would i support a school showing this.... hell no.

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Fef to lovelyk... December 04, 2008 01:19:43

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Well said. Why do something that you don't encourage the students to do. "Do as I say, not as a I do."

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Gwynodd December 03, 2008 18:02:04

Yes, UCLA can show whatever movie it wants because...

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College is where you learn to expand your thinking and move away from that sheltered life in high school - where you were still playing as a kid. College is where you realize you take on resposibility for yourself and you are becoming an adult. You grow in college. I took a course in college entitled - The Study of Sex. They showed a lot of porno films but I can't tell you today if I was turned on or not. I guess I'm just saying - you have to open your mind and not be so stiffled about learning.

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Fef to Gwynodd December 04, 2008 01:20:20

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Did you mean that pun at the end? "stiffed about learning"? ;)

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Art to Gwynodd December 04, 2008 01:26:36

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I would leave my sheltered life of daisies and rainbows to study sex but I am afraid of catching an Academically Transmitted Disease like liberalism.

:)

(I am sorry, I will now go and stand in the corner.)

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Dubei December 03, 2008 15:14:07

Yes, UCLA can show whatever movie it wants because...

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You do not have to watch it if you do not like it. God bless the freedom of speech!!!!!!!

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Fef to Dubei December 04, 2008 01:38:18

I guess we should also bless the freedom of UCLA administration's stupidity, low standards and poor example-setting, right?

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citizen... to Fef December 06, 2008 06:33:51

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By whose standards? Yours?

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Fef to citizen... January 14, 2009 07:21:09

As a California native & taxpayer, sure, why not start with my standards :)

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NattiFan (oYo) December 03, 2008 15:11:56

No, UCLA should not allow screen a porno because...

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Porn in any educational institution I think is in bad taste........Pirates? I gotta see this...

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Tommy T December 03, 2008 13:26:59

No, UCLA should not allow screen a porno because...

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.........it uis just another ' backward step' in the general degradding of the American scholastic system. Same thing here in Canada !

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Fef to Tommy T December 04, 2008 01:40:03

Now let's not go so far to consider UCLA a scholastic system
(and not much for athletics lately either)

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MercuryX23 to Fef December 06, 2008 18:26:35

There's more than one sport played at the college level. Oh, and did you know that UCLA has more NCAA national championships than...anybody?

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