| You're right, Mathurin, I pegged you for an anti-porn-guy. I apologize for the rush to judgment.
I have to disagree with you, Flip, that having control over enjoying pornography is "amazing" due to it's super addictive nature. I think that having control over anything that is addictive is actually the "norm" and those with the addiction are outside of the norm. I think this applies to alcohol, drugs, pornography, etc. I know hundreds of people that smoke marijuana, personally, and I don't know a single person that's addicted to it. I also know dozens of people, personally, that enjoy pornography, but I don't know anyone that watches it more than a couple of times a week (or looks at magazines, etc.) MAX. Of course, I'm not around everyone 24-7, but from observation, I feel confident in stating that addiction to porn or aberrant behavior as the result of viewing pornographic materials is well outside the norm. The "norm" seems to be neatly divided between those that enjoy porn and those that do not.
I just do not think that pornography has an ill effect on society. If the argument is that it induces men to treat women like objects and cause broken homes, etc., I could easily argue that it isn't pornography at all, it's SEX. Sex makes them feel good, makes them have that little chemical rush just like a drug would give them, and they want that feeling any time they can get it (who wouldn't, after all, want to feel good as much as possible?). If they step out on their wife, then there are issues of respect, honesty, trust, communication, and compatibility within that relationship. It wouldn't be because porn had influenced them negatively. Porn is a means to an end, the end being climax by yourself or arousal to achieve climax with another person. It can be fun, funny, sexy, kinky - you name it. It doesn't harm society. |