Porns cool, in its place. That's about all I can say about it. In cultural terms, pornography is liberating. It holds up a VAST variety of men and women as being desirable. Yes lots of conventionally hot people, but lots of very-non conventional people too. Midgets, amputees, old people. Its a very broad church. It makes no judgement on you for what you find attractive, which we really need. Sex is the primary cause of self-repression and dissatisfaction in the western world, and we need it to be ok to say 'this turns me on, and i am not ashamed.
Honestly, I think that anti-pornography folks are about the only knee-jerkers that I genuinely hate. The 'think of the children' crowd I can at least ignore, because they say the same thing about everything that's not from 1950, but the biblically opposed are closer to fascism when they campaign about pornography than at any other time. If nothing else it proves that religion is basically about demonizing sexuality as a whole and women in particular.
Then there's the feminist crowd who are so misguided as to make me wonder how anyone can take their viewpoint seriously. I can buy that it encourages objectification, but only to the same extent of tv and magazines (ie you never know the person involved) and so thats a problem with society, not pornography. What I can't see is how it's particularly demeaning to women, considering there is a roughly equal amount of men involved, and surely if pornography is demeaning, its demeaning to everyone involved. It makes my head spin that feminists argue (and I'm not straw manning, I have been to their lectures on pornography) that women who happily work in the adult industry are too stupid or too enslaved to realize that porn is evil. Goddamn feminsits. *sigh*
Anyway, porn is good for us. Its existence brings us closer to a fully accepting society where sex of all forms is normal and no-one is ashamed of how they feel.
Honestly, I think that anti-pornography folks are about the only knee-jerkers that I genuinely hate. The 'think of the children' crowd I can at least ignore, because they say the same thing about everything that's not from 1950, but the biblically opposed are closer to fascism when they campaign about pornography than at any other time. If nothing else it proves that religion is basically about demonizing sexuality as a whole and women in particular.
Then there's the feminist crowd who are so misguided as to make me wonder how anyone can take their viewpoint seriously. I can buy that it encourages objectification, but only to the same extent of tv and magazines (ie you never know the person involved) and so thats a problem with society, not pornography. What I can't see is how it's particularly demeaning to women, considering there is a roughly equal amount of men involved, and surely if pornography is demeaning, its demeaning to everyone involved. It makes my head spin that feminists argue (and I'm not straw manning, I have been to their lectures on pornography) that women who happily work in the adult industry are too stupid or too enslaved to realize that porn is evil. Goddamn feminsits. *sigh*
Anyway, porn is good for us. Its existence brings us closer to a fully accepting society where sex of all forms is normal and no-one is ashamed of how they feel.
