She-Babes Cavalcade of Sports Ruled Not Obscene

I'm not sure whether the ACLU would take this case. But in the virtual world that is Ebay.com, I have a grievance which cannot be properly addressed at this time - but what are blogs for if not to bitch and rail and moan against the great injustices of the word? I'm talking war, Republicans, global warming... and vintage female wrestling videos.

When I offered She-Babes Cavalcade of Sports: Volume One for sale on Ebay, I thought that it might attract the following customers:

- wrestling aficionados
- lesbians
- collectors of the Something Weird video series

The film is comprised of fifties and sixties wrestling footage. There's a roller derby sequence thrown in to round it out. And, yes, there's two loops of gratuitous topless wrestling. But the women do not resemble Jenna Jameson, and there's no - how shall I put this - hitting below the belt. It might be sexy in Soviet-era Siberia, but I've seen hotter episodes of The Partridge Family.

However, about twelve hours after posting the listing, Ebay kicked my video right off their respectable site and offered me a school-marm message about putting THOSE sorts of videos in the adults-only category where they belong - which is where one would find midget pornography and foot worshipping leather daddies. You would have thought that I was the MILF next door offering chocolate chip cookies to unsuspecting choir boys in the neighborhood, just waiting for a chance to corrupt their godly little minds.

I guess that the fun word "She-Babes" and the unrated status of the film raised the red flag. But there's no recourse in the human-free land of Ebay Customer Service.

I'll probably just die one day clutching my unsalable copy of She-Babes Cavalcade of Sports. And the world will wonder why it meant so much to me... and no one might know by then that, for me, it was like Ginsberg's 'Howl' and Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer'... whether or not it is ART might be subjective, but, by God, this thing is not obscene. And if it's for 'mature audiences', then what is 'mature' - grown-ups who love a good wrestling match?

As far as I am concerned: we are ALL She-Babes.

Pssst... hey kid, wanna buy a video?

NTD