Students at the University of Maryland upset at the scrapping of the screening of the XXX rated “Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge” are planning to defy the school and show the film anyway.

 

Rather than show it in the student theater a group of campus leaders known as the Student Power Party has reserved a lecture room for the screening according to the Washington Post.

 

The movie which was originally scheduled to play on Saturday night was cancelled after Republican state legislator Andy Harris threatened to cut off funding for the state school if the administration allowed the movie to be played on campus.

 

According to the Washington Post the mostly run student theater didn’t mean to offend anyone but was looking for something that would generate some revenue as the theater has struggled to compete with DVD rentals and movie downloads over the years. 

Theater program director Lisa Cunning told the paper on Thursday that students had wanted to show a triple-X movie for a long time and that she had been looking for one that wasn’t too violent or degrading and had a plot.

 

I am by no means an expert on porn movies but let me just say that a movie filled with sex acts is degrading to women by its very nature and I doubt that anyone chooses a porn movie based on whether or not it has a plot.  I’m not even sure how there could be a plot in such a production.

 

It really is beyond me how an institution of higher education can justify showing such a movie to its students.  Some will argue that the cancellation is a violation of their free speech rights.  A college or university exists to provide an education, and showing a porn movie isn’t educational in my opinion.  Nor do I recall that the First Amendment protects pornography.

 

Even the producer, Digital Playground says that their purpose in providing the movie free to the schools is to get more people interested in watching porn movies.  Hello?  Is anyone in the president’s office listening?  These guys want to turn the students into porn addicts.

 

And I do mean addicts.  As someone who has counseled many individuals about their porn addiction I have seen the heartache that results when a wife finds out that her otherwise faithful husband can’t resist the lure of porn.  Trust is lost and many marriages wind up failing as a result.

 

If the students and the University of Maryland want to watch this porn movie so badly then I suggest that they go see it and others like it in the nearest porn movie house they can find.  They have that right.  But then that would probably make them uncomfortable to be seen in such a place while the university is viewed as safe.

 

Finally where are the women’s rights groups?  On NOW’s web site they have a section on stopping violence against women including sexual assault on campus.  Why aren’t they interested in the porn industry which reduces women to nothing more than a sexual object?  I’ll go out on a limb here and say it may have something to do with liberals in the film industry. 

 

It remains to be seen whether or not the officials at the University of Maryland will take any action against the defiant students, but what is more disturbing is how this movie is spreading like wildfire across the nation’s campuses with the tacit approval of the school officials.

Update:  The University allowed the group to screen the movie on Monday night.  The Washington Post reported there were about 200 students in attendance and that the Regents will be meeting this week to discuss what types of films can be shown on campus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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