Internet Porn is a Tool
response to Max Joseph, Don C, Jon Miller, and Cameron Cohen's post Internet Porn
I'm tired of the MORAL argument of whether porn is GOOD or BAD. If people willing participate, it's a sport or an art in my opinion and you can enjoy watching it if you keep it in context in your life. Internet porn should be defined as a tool. And like any tool, or hobby, or substance, or habit, it can be abused by the people who use it. If someone is constantly seeking solace in it over interacting with you as a partner, then there is a problem with him/her or you or the relationship that needs to be addressed. If you as a partner in the relationship cannot accept the other's behaviors/tastes you need to talk and make clear what your boundaries/expectations are.
However, there is a POLITICAL aspect to it that people never seem to discuss...MOST people are forced to participate in it due to socio-economic desperation.
People (overwhelmingly female) who are desperately poor, drug addicted, single moms, living in a third world/eastern bloc countrie. I champion people like Jenna Jameson who willingly participate and control their own careers, but people like that are rare.
We still live in such a repressed, giggling, "sneaking around" society when it comes to sex...which is why the ploy of adding that element to a marketing campaign still seems to have an effect. I think we really make too much of a big deal about it anymore. All the controversy and talk just seems to spur on the interest. I think the expectations get raised too high and often sex is just overrated.
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i think that the politics of pornography heavily tie into morals. people assume that when one says pornography isn't good that one is talking about the impact on one's own life (which is partially true, in most cases), but the badness also comes from the effect on the performers.
separating them as a political issue, to me, is a little odd because you are saying that it is neither here no there that porn is bad, but that people being forced to participate IS a bad thing. the fact that most porn comes out of lack of choice on the part of a largely female group IS bad, whether your morals allow you to watch it or not. i don't think it can be argued that something that represses people by providing them with what are essentially very fake and rotten opportunities at some kind of living is entirely relative in its morality.
sure, in a utopian version of the argument where everyone is a willing participant, pornography's merits can only be judged on the scale of its effects on society, but we don't live in a world like that. until we do, i don't think that separating the moral from the political is a plausible or logical to view the issue.
Posted on May 15, 2007 — by aliceinreality
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