‘Videos’ and Danger

In light of the uproar over public funding of the National Endowment for the Arts, it is disturbing to find that the most obscene work in this country is being made by people who place such a low value on life in pursuit of prize money.

Nothing in the work of Robert Mapplethorpe is as indecent to me as the hypocrisy in this: The endangerment of children and animals is considered humorous and rewarded in commercial forums, while policies of censorship and anti-intellectualism are pursued in the name of protecting morals.

I suggest these videos be sent to Sen. Jesse Helms as examples of America’s beast within.

D. W. HARGROVE, Pacific Palisades