Besides, porn doesn't do anymore damage than guns. You are blaming the tool for being misused.
An interesting argument. Guns can be used for good -- self defense, for example. What "good" can pornography be used for? As for harm, we both probably agree on the harm that the 'misuse' of guns can cause, up to and including the death of innocent people. What harm does the 'misuse' of pornography cause, in your opinion?
An interesting argument.
He isn't really making a argument. Its a statement of fact, - [you want a prohibition on porn], and a conclusion about why you're so confused about the issue.
Guns can be used for good -- self defense, for example. What "good" can pornography be used for?
Ask any soldier/sailor, deprived of female companionship. - Can ~you~ see the 'good' in that? - I'd bet not.
As for harm, we both probably agree on the harm that the 'misuse' of guns can cause, up to and including the death of innocent people.
What harm does the 'misuse' of pornography cause, in your opinion?
Self abuse can blind you, as everybody knows. Or didn't your momma tell you?
My husband and I use it to enhance (not replace) or sex life.
That is, in my opinion, a GOOD THING.
Also, quite a few women make a lot of money at it, look how many women run their own XXX websites.
Watching sex performed mechanically by automatons can deaden the senses and in the case of married people, destroy intimacy and marriages. After all, the greatest aphrodisiac is TRUST.
But most people who support pornography wouldn't want to know how many women involved were raped as children.
I have a cousin who was raped at age 13 by three 13 year old boys when she was walking home from school. Then the newspaper in their town published her name in the article reporting the rape! From that moment on, it was a struggle for her parents fighting her addiction to drugs and her descent into promiscuity and running away. Thank God she hit bottom, got to a fork in the road, chose the right one, and became a Christian and delivered.
Pornography can never be a victimless crime even when consentual because the billions of dollars that the industry generates is used for child pornography, promoting homosexuality to our children, and for the abortion industry. (Oh and persecuting the conservatives and Christians who dare to oppose their agendas). In fact, the Playboy foundation was instrumental in getting Roe vs. Wade through the courts.
...and when I formed the Playboy foundation in 1950 in 1965 it became the activist arm of the Playboy philosophy. I started doing the philosophy in 1963, the end of 1962 actually and then formed the foundation. The foundation became as the magazine and the company prospered, a way of putting our money where our mouth was, and by the early nineteen seventies we had donated several million dollars to a variety of controversial causes. Many of them related to sex laws, sex research with Mathers and Johnson and the McKensey Institute and the civil rights movement. In the process also we helped to fight the series of cases that lead eventually to Rowe versus Wade and legalized abortion. Hugh Hefner
(From Interview with Hugh Hefner
See also: The Cultural Victory of Hugh Hefner)