ank 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.
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American's are just now getting over the Victorian way of looking at things. Personally I'm disgusted at how far TV goes now.
I'm a believer in that porongraphy should have their own special websites, Channels, Magazines, Etc.. The lines are too blurred now.
For example, I don't want to see tits in the Newspaper or on car commercials. When I want to look at tits, I want a special segregated places thats just for tits.
Dunno maybe I'm just weird.
Personally I think the whole porn, alcohol, drugs prohibitionist movement is exagerated. I am not quite sure what the institutions are trying to accomplish other than to make everyone act as they do. Something along the lines of, "since I am suffering you have to suffer with me otherwise it is not fair."
Christianity is based on the concept of free will. Under Christian beliefs, God created the world and allows man to choose what he does with his life. So why do today's religions believe that they know better than God?
Prohibit drinking under 21 and you have a lot of drunk kids, it is human nature. Prohibit sex and you have teenage pregnacies or kids that marry the wrong person just because they want to have sex.
I am sorry but I do not buy the fact that someone is offended because they see a naked body or a couple having sex. They may get offended because the naked body is better than their own or the sex act offends them because they are not getting any.
Cock and bull fights are sick man. I am bothered by them too.
Nudity can be an artform.
Or it can be raunch...
Same with violent imagery.
It all depends on the context, for me.
Once upon a time getting hold of a picture of tits or the elusive hard core pornography was damn near impossible for the curious teen ager. I know; I spent a lot of time searching. When I found it, I savored it. I treasured it. I remember my first experience finding my older cousin's 1967 Playboy magazine hidden in the attic of their house. When I found a real live hard core porn magazine while rummaging through my friends neighbor's house, I found a hundred uses for it before it finally became a mere memory (see http://annexclown.wordpress.com/ )
Today porn is so over available kids really can't appreciate how important it is to their development. The mystery of porn as a kid made it all the more exciting when it was discovered. It's not an issue of morality with me, it's mystery and imagination.
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