Fond childhood memories horribly tainted.

The MST3K of the weekend was Jungle Goddess, an offensive little hunk of tripe from 1948, three years after World War II. The plot should be enough:

When a plane carrying the daughter of a millionaire crashes in an African jungle, two pilots set out to collect the reward. They discover that she has become the goddess of a primitive tribe. An insurgent witch doctor and fierce wild animals make escape from the jungle difficult for the trio.

Really though, that's not enough. Start with the idea that she's made a goddess because she's white. That's pretty rude, but then we get to her personality.

One of our protagonists shoots a tribesman. She goes through the motions, as village goddess, of condemning him to death in eight days, "when the full moon rises." The other protagonist goes to her to ask what will happen, and she assures him that she has no intention of doing as the local laws allow. There's this unstated "He only killed a native, it's not like he killed a white man or anything like that."

A real piece of 1940's racism. And what annoys me most is that when I was young, like nine or so (that would be 1975), I loved watching those old Johnny Weismuller Tarzan movies. They're much of the same flavor, terribly unenlightened products of a former age, but now those memories feel tainted and somewhat sickly.

Definitely worried

This story [Ads may be NSFW] tells of a sex story website operator whose home was invaded by the FBI and all of her files seized and taken away. The affadativit that led to the warrant assured the issuing judge that the website contained "obscene" materials.

Red-Rose-Stories.com was, by all accounts, a pretty nasty place, featuring child rape stories among other things. However, there can be no doubt that if it's merely the stories that the FBI was worried about than the prosecution is completely without merit. There hasn't been a successful obscenity prosecution in this country in nearly 50 years, but then that's never stopped the feds from scratching the itch to harass someone and make them burn all their assets defending their right to create fiction.

I'm just waiting for the Feds to go after Anne Rice. Beauty was, after all, fifteen when the series starts.

I'm not taking down anything in my stories, but damn, this is definitely a damnably worrying trend.