Porn - evil or not?

[StSanta]

Seeing that we got a good bit of conservative people here, as well as a few liberals, I thought it would be a good idea to ask where yer position on this topic is.

DK legalized it as one of the first countries in the world. Initially, our products were sought after.

Then the US came into the hoop, and are now the biggest producer in the world.

Iss porn something evil that gives young men (primarily) and kids wrong ideas about sex and corrupts their minds - i.e damaging to a persons' health?

Or is it just another form of entertainment, in place to meet another side of the human biological  urge, just like sports, action films, drama and so forth?

I should add that what I'm talking about is mainstream pr0n. You'll find disgusting examples in pr0n, just as you'll find disgusting examples in other fields.

This is gonna be fun.

Am in the process of buying http://www.SantaSex.dk. JUst need to pay 'um. That'll also be fun. You could say that I am doing market research

And Ripsnort: yes, I will put up that film with you, SOB, Fatty and his mom. Think I'll edit out the part with the pig though.

[JV44]

mmmmhhhh....

Lets assume Porn corrupt minds.... so if it would be evil because it do.....

....than Religion is also evil because its allso corrupt minds....

... My personal opinion is there was never a war because Porn, but 100th of war for religion....

....so my conclusion is Religion is more evil than Porn

JV44

[Seeker]

JV44 misses the point....

Pr0n *is* a religion.

[Wilbus]

It's only considered porn if it is in color.

If it is in black & white it gets put out on a museum and called art.

[Lance]

Santa, you revisionist pig!  Denmark invented porn?  We all know porn is as American as apple pie!

[Samm]

I've allways wondered why so many find the depiction of adult sex acts immoral but not real sex . How can you decry the photograpic or video record of sex, but not sex ? America has a minority that tries to project their pesonal shame, or irrational hangups on the rest of the country in the name of morality .

[john9001]

if you buy a women dinner and drinks and have sex , it's called a date

if you just give her the money and have sex , it's called a crime

[capt. apathy]

if like you said, you're exluding the extremely perverted side of it (btw isn't the deffinition of perverted -anyone who likes it kinkier than you?) then i doubt it does any harm.  as long as a person doesn't use it as a replacement to actual relationships.

hell it's probably a healthy way for young adults to get some info before they start.

all that being said if any of my kids ended up in that industry then someone would likely die.


ps
  kinky is using a feather as a sex toy.  perverted uses the whole chicken

[Samm]

John what I find funny is that a woman can stand on a corner and give it away for free, but once she puts a price on it she breaking the law .

Maybe they created these anti postitution laws in hopes that the potatos would start giving it away free.

Prostitution laws are dumb, and thats why it is impossible to police . Hopefully american society will progress to the point when we have laws that protect prostitutes from abuses, pimps and drug slavery like the rest of the civilized world .

[Kratzer]

When people teach their kids that porn is dirty and exploitive, kids see it as dirty and exploitive, and sex as dirty.  I don't think those are thoughts that should be associated with sex.  People are too uptight, and their being uptight feeds a lot of the actual bad and exploitive parts of porn.  If people would stop treating sex as something inherently 'bad', and as a result weren't so whoopeeed uptight about discussing it, a lot of the problems that are related to sex - disease, shame, exploitation, unwanted pregnancy - would be greatly reduced.  The problem is, a lot of people think that if they don't treat sex as dirty, and if they have open dialogs about sex, that their kids will run out and have more of it and be dirty, heathen sinners and go to hell.

[Swoop]

I am unable to make a comment as Jenga is visiting for the weekend......

 Tell ya what I think on monday.

[GRUNHERZ]

SOB, Creamo, Animal....... Care to comment?

[Elfenwolf]

By "porn" I'm assuming you mean xxx-rated adult videos and magazines. Not to split hairs here, but standards of what is pornographic are set by each community and thus subject to municipal control, so what is considered pornographic in Little Rock, Arkansas, might be considered erotic art in New York City.

Porn is demeaning to and objectifies women. Period. Kratzer, porn IS exploitave, and some porn can get downright dirty, too. I would never have porn in my house because I have a 16 year old daughter, and I hope the parents of the boys she dates feel the same way I do. Kratzer, I hope my daughter never dates your son if you feel like porn depicts normal relationships between two (or more) partners and you keep videos around for his viewing pleasure.


In spite of my personal feelings about porn I would be opposed to a world-wide ban on it because we all should be allowed to make our own choices, good or bad. I view porn in the same light I view drug or alcohol abuse- Not one good, productive thing has ever come from them, but if you want to view it, shoot it, drink it or snort it then knock yourself out.

Now I have a question for all of you who feel porn is harmless- How do you feel about condom distribution in public schools? Kratzer mentions STDs and unwanted pregnacies are a problem among our society, so why not distribute condoms in schools? I would be for that before I'd be in favor of distributing copies of "Debbie Does Dallas" to the kid who's dating my daughter.

[Eagler]

overall it is bad -  too long to go into

but if it wasn't for porn, the Internet and the WWW would not have been born

[Russian]

No, its not bad....I kill kittens daily