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People I features Sentinel Star Orlando, Florida Tuesday, January 8, 1960 television Bmfta X-V. comics chic "'W Violent views of women draw feminist backlash Ai AY I' AT 'L i I I'M ft- t'i "Who decides what to censor?" asked NOW member Susan Lewis. That question has cut off support from such traditional allies of the women's movement as civil liberties groups and political leftists, who balk at the thought of censoring even the most offensive material. The obscenity trial of Hustler publisher Larry Flynt was the first public division of feminist ranks over the issue, and many feminists now say they don't want to actually censor pornography or brutal chic, but only to raise public consciousness about the dangers of using violent images to sell or to excite. Gilboa and Shirley! however, were less con cerned about the 1st Amendment problem.

"The 1st Amendment was never meant to protect what you saw on the screen tonight," Gilboa told the NOW group. She suggested using the principle of local community standards to define obscenity, established by the Supreme Court, to get some of the material banned. Other groups have concentrated only on publicizing the violence and degradation of women they see in pornography and advertising. Women Against Pornography in New York and Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media in Los Angeles have compiled slide shows similar to Gilboa's. The New York group has taken a storefront in Times Square from which members, Including Brownmiller, lead tours of surrounding peep shows, bookstores and masturbation parlors to show women what men are using to turn on.

But no one really knows where the mystique of violence-spiked sex, whether in hardcore porn.Jashion or the punk rock scene, lies. Is It just a desperate attempt to prod some reaction out of a public numbed from overexposure to sex and televised violence? Or is there some steamy, primordial soup of domination, submission, aggression and desire running through human veins, occasionally poking its nasty way through our civilized skins? The Freudian view is that stories or images of whips, chains, blood, and beatings reflect basic, universal human urges and fantasies. "The sexuality of most men shows an admixture of aggression, of a desire to subdue," Freud wrote. Viennese psychoanalyst Helene Oeutsch, a disciple of Freud, defined intercourse itself as rape the piercing of a woman's genitals by a man. Maybe that explains why pornography, overwhelmingly aimed at men, is filled with rape, corruptible nymphets, and nasty ladies in leather (the equally exciting reverse of male domination) but brutal chic is something else.

It is meant to appeal to women. "I don't see any poor kids walking down 5th Avenue looking at store windows," said Owen Edwards, a contributing editor of American Photographer magazine. "I see women. Very few men read European fashion magazines." The thought that all women want to be raped Is generally dismissed as an unfortunate myth. But someone has been buying Christian Dior Brutal, Page 3-B By BARBARA BROTMAN Chief TrUxnw The lights' flicked off and the slides began flicking by.

A fashion photo of a man striking a woman in the face as she reels in pain. A woman being dragged across the floor, clutching at a man's moving feet, to advertise perfume. An ad for a bowling aljey that said, "Have some fun beat your wife tonight." A Hustler magazine cover showing a woman being fed head first into a meat grinder, her legs flailing helplessly at the top, and coming out hamburger. Grisly, hard-core porn pictures of women tied up, gagged, whipped, brandishing their own whips, and cutting their genitals. Netta Gilboa, who began collecting these pictures three years ago, was vocally appalled.

"That's how we're seen in these pictures," she told a small group of women gathered in the YWCA in Evanston, to see her slide show, "Women are Just meat." That night Gilboa, a graduate student In advertising at Northwestern University, and Sally Shirley, an office manager for an Evanston management consulting, firm, announced the formation of People Against Pornography, the first Chicago-area organization to join the growing feminist protests against hard-core pornography and the high-fashion, stylized violence often called "brutal chic." Gilboa, Shirley and such prominent feminists as Susan Brownmiller, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem base their objections on more than personal distaste. They say pictures that mix vio- lence with sex create an atmosphere that condones rape, woman-battering and sexual degradation and humiliation of women. "Pornography is the theory; rape is the practice," Brownmiller has written. And fashion magazines, record album covers, movies and store windows peopled with twisted, bloody, beaten, dead but beautiful women make stylish sport of violence against women, feminists say. They point to recent studies that have equated exposure to violent pornography with increased aggression.

A University of Southern California study found that of convicted rapists, 57 percent had modeled their actions on pornography they had seen; of molesters of male children, 77 percent had done so; and of molesters of female children, 87 percent had. And so pornography and all negative media images of women have become a feminist issue one that has an important influence on every other issue, according to Shirley, because it reflects and shapes the attitudes toward women that have kept the ERA unratified and have thwarted other feminist goals. "When you start talking about pornography, people think you're a prude," Gilboa said. Indeed, several women In her audience questioned her definition of some slides as abusive. After a department store advertisement showing pre-teen girls wearing plaid shirts flashed on the, screen, one woman asked, "Is that pornography?" (Shirley later said the girls were posed seductively.) tJV.

5 'is A 1 When this psychic speaks, people had better listen qnk -v--- HMhi iir-H-i KNT Nws Sflfvlov At times Kelli Maynard wishes her psychic powers would go away. "At times I would like to just pick it out and throw it away," she says. his. The doctor admitted he was treating her daughter. Mrs.

Maynard then perceived the couple was on welfare and hounded California welfare authorities to learn their whereabouts. "My oldest daughter could never get away with anything when she was little," laughs Mrs. Maynard. "I always knew." Pregnant with her first baby, the daughter came to her mother and said, "Mom, I've got to talk to you, but you already know, so tell me if it's a boy or girl." Her friends rely on Mrs. Maynard to find lost items.

"I can't find my shoes, Mom," calls her daughter. "You're the psychic. You find them." Mrs. Maynard says it is easier for her to use psychic powers to find things than to rely on a conventional search. Her sons are strict Baptists and refuse to acknowledge or discuss her apparent psychic powers.

A religious woman herself, Mrs. Maynard says the gift is not evil and considers it her way of forewarning others. "When you do something good for someone," she says, "I don't think it's witchcraft." Her premonitions occasionally come in her sleep, like the night her husband woke her when she was coughing. She had dreamed of a huge forest fire which she says materialized weeks Most of the premonitions are "visions" or confusing scenes of future events, like the time she pictured her daughter with her in the hospital. Within a month, Mrs.

Maynard was hospitalized with a heart attack and found herself bedridden with her daughter perched on the bed. chatting. Her gift "gets old" when people become dependent on her guidance and call her for silly advice. One woman called to find out what her son was doing and Mrs. Maynard's response was not what she wanted to hear.

The boy would call in 15 minutes to get bailed out of jail on a charge of male prostitution, Mrs. May-: nard said. He did. Because of her frequent premonitions of future events, Mrs. Maynard says, "I really have no sense of time or days.

I live on another level. I have to write things down or I'd forget" By DARYL GIBSON LONGMONT, Colo. When Kelll Maynard waves goodbye, she adds an eerie, "Drive carefully." And when Kelli Maynard says, "Drive carefully," It Is advice to be reckoned with. The Longmont psychic has had premonitions of more traffic accidents than she wants to remember. Some people have taken her advice and driven a different route or abandoned their cars for a time.

They will never know if Mrs. Maynard's "vision" was right Others have ignored her advice, but only one. Her current admonition is, "Stay away from falling buildings," for Mrs. Maynard Is bothered by a nagging dream of a targe building which collapses while under construction. So far, ft hasn't happened," she says, "but it will.

I know it will." 1 Whether she is believed or not makes no difference to her. In fact, Mrs. Maynard is used to skepticism. As a child of 4, she conjured up a picture of a dog caught a trap. Her mother chalked it up to "fancy dreams," but little Kelli led her father to a field where they found the dog.

As a little girl, she saw a vision of 75-children falling through the ice at a church skating party. Her mother called every church in town until she found one planning a party and asked them to test the lea first They did and It was too thin for skating. When she was older, Mrs. Maynard told the nuns at her Catholic school that two, boys were going to be electrocuted. The ignored her until the vision became reality and then they hauled her to a priest who chided her for practicing witchcraft and devil worship.

At age 9, Mrs. Maynard was playing with cousins when she burst into tears. "My brother is dying," she sobbed. The children called her "morbid" and went on with their games. Later little Kelli told them the phone was ringing at her grandmother's house, a doctor was on the phone announcing her brother's death and her grandmother was walking slowly down the street to bring them the news.

Within minutes, her grandmother was at the door and the foreboding became history. "There's nothing you can do about it and it's so depressing," says Mrs. Maynard. Although she had used her apparent powers to promote a successful business of psychic readings, occasionally she has wished she was not gifted. "At times I would like to just pick it out and throw it away," she says pulling at her temples.

Those feelings came when the other children called her a witch, or on the night her phone rang and a voice warned her to get out of the neighborhood and, "burn, witch, burn." "When I'm In crowds, I have to turn It off or I'd be In a straight jacket," she says. When it comes to her family, Maynard's psychic powers are particularly disturbing. Before a "vision" about her family she is depressed, cranky and restless. When she divorced her first husband, a friend found her weeping, "My husband is going to kidnap my children." He did, and Mrs. Maynard used her psychic powers for three years to track them down.

Once when her daughter and son-in-law ran away to escape a court case, Mrs. Maynard perceived the name of a Calfornia doctor, called him and demanded to know if her daughter was pregnant and a patient of.