Pornography

Remember when the sight of a nipple was considered a public health hazard? The fact that we all have two nipples each was irrelevant. There were pictures of breasts in magazines and racy newspapers but the nipples were erased or scratches out. It was deemed pornography. Remember the scandal that ensued when Janet Jackson revealed a breast on national television? At least her nipple was partly covered, thank god.


















Pornography is something that exists only in the mind of the viewer.
Still not convinced? OK, there was a time when vaginas were not shown in girlie magazines. The a revolution occurred and the cat was out of the bag. The pussy was in your face and spread shots were the norm. Did society collapse? Did the moral foundations of marriage crumble?

Pornography has definitely evolved over the years. It has become increasingly explicit and then the suggestion of penetration has become real penetration. The current standard by which Hard Core is differentiated from soft core. And then there was the exploration of fetishes, perversions, bizarre acts, and even bestiality. Each pioneering step pushing the boundaries of what pornography could be.
And still society didn't collapse. Yes many people were upset, outraged, offended.
As for myself, cock fights and bull fights are two examples of entertainment that upset, outrage and offend me more than any pornography I have ever seen.
Do the guardians of morality who protest against pornography have any issue with cock fights and bull fights? I doubt it.
What about boxing? Two adult men pummeling each other till one either collapses from exhaustion or is knocked out unconscious. No problem with that is there?

What about the constant barrage of people killing each other, shooting, stabbing, strangling, poisoning, burning that constitutes entertainment? Any problem with that?

People still feel the need to flag blog sites that contain images that are considered offensive and I'm not talking about severed heads and victims of poison gas. Arse, tits, cunts, cocks and any combination of these is considered obscene by some people. OK, but I bet these same people have no problem with buckets of blood spurting out of someone who has been shot or stabbed or speared. Nothing like a good blood and guts story like The Passion of Christ by director Mel Gibson. Nobody objected to the blood and gore. And why should they after all?
It's amazing how our brains can switch off the "offensive button" when we choose to do so.

I choose not to show pornography on my blog not because I'm offended but because there is so much of it on the web, my efforts would only be insignificant, pointless and gratuitous. This doesn't mean that if I want to express a thought about something and the pornographic image is available to illustrate my point that I won't use it. That's possible, maybe, I don't know.