Should pornography be illegal?

Feb 28th 2005 | Me

[LauraleeBraswell]

Prostitution: one adult pays another adult for sex- is illegal

Pornography: Where one adult pays two adults to have sex and brings a camera, This is legal.

Pornography has been around for over one hundred years, since the time of the camera,

but it has only been the last few decades where it became the money making industry that it is today. And today's pornography is much much worse.

This question came to me after reading this article

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1353029/posts

an excerpt "The Justice Department is appealing the dismissal of an obscenity case in Pittsburgh in which a federal judge said prosecutors went too far in trying to block the sale of pornographic movies over the Internet and through the mail. The case initially was prosecuted under Ashcroft""

Should pornography be illegal?

It's an opinion question, you answer, give your reasons. Is it free speech or not? Why. And where is the line drawn? Has pornography promoted homosexuality and unsafe sex? Or is it a privacy issue?

Should there be standards on pornography?

Concerned Women for America say No- what do you think?

[GodBlessUSA]

I agree! :)

[GodBlessUSA]

Factsmatter, Welcome to FreeRepublic

While working in NY City before Giuliani was Mayor, I worked in a nice area but there was another office located on 42nd somewhere before 6th. It was disgusting, peep shows, porn, and prostitution. There was the lowest forms of life there. A lot of young lost people sucked into that life there as well. I witnessed someone being arrested for crack. Fun. Somebody tried to grab at me. It was scary and I told my boss if they wanted anything from that office or any business was to be conducted there, they could send someone else. I would no longer be subjected to that.

Forward to Giuliani taking office. He cleaned that area up. Closed the those disgusting hell holes down. Got rid of a lot of the low life forms there. Giuliani made a bad situation into a safer area to be in. Night and day from what it was.

I do Not want the federal government telling us what to do with our private lives because they always take it too far. However, local government should be able to have control over the situations of Porn in their neighborhoods. Porn most certainly brings the area down, attracts the lowest forms of people who commit crimes, and make it unsafe place to be.

[supercat]

Laws exist to protect people from being harmed by others, not to restrict people to only doing what is right.

Where is that written?

The Declaration of Independence states that the purpose of government is to protect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Further, I don't think it's at all a stretch to suggest that it would have been within God's power to prevent Adam and Eve from taking the fruit of the Free of Knowledge. My inference is that God gave people free will, with the full understanding that they could use it in ways of which He would not approve. Surely if God did not want mankind to be allowed to sin, He would be able to take care of that without the help of earthy authorities.

[LauraleeBraswell]

Divorce was illegal in Ireland up until a few years ago. Separation was legal, but divorce wasn't.

[LauraleeBraswell]

""I suspect that she's not really an eighteen year old female high school student, though, since research proves that nearly 70% of teenage girls on the internet are actually 47 year old FBI agents. So, what's the story Lauralee? ""

HAHAHA
I'm in college now, so your half right!

[LauraleeBraswell]

""So if I video tape my wife and I having relations that would be immoral?""

No, but if you mass distributed it and sold it, yes.

[LauraleeBraswell]

""Have you noticed that once this thread actually did get going,in a scholarly way,she abandoned it?""

I went to sleep, And how do you know I'm from Long Island? From the NY thread? I can't believe you remembered that. You must like me!

As for the Ancient Egyptians, well the printing press wasn't invented yet. So pornography was not mass distributed. That's why- in a way, pornography as we know it today did not come about until the camera.

[LauraleeBraswell]

Yes, banning pornography should be for local governments to decide. Guiliani was great in cleaning those places up. Didn't it cause allot of controversy?

[LauraleeBraswell]

""Frankly,it's not my problem that neither you nor Lauralee knows anything much about this topic,but you feel it incumbent upon yourselves to cavil about me""

Richard Kimball has said some interesting things. I don't think you have much of a right to CAVIL about him.



cav·il v. intr.
To find fault unnecessarily; raise trivial objections.

You have tried to find fault with me, and you have raised trivial objections about me, So who is Caviling about who?

"" And this topic is the much beaten dust of a many times over dead horse.""

I don't think so, if many people were and are happy to express how they feel, including yourself, it's not a dead horse. Stop contributing to the discussion if you are so against it. You clearly have no objections to expressing how you feel. It's an interesting question, Does the government have to right to restrict something immoral if it contributes to societal decadence? That's really the question.


Yes, I am 18, and I am a female. And I'm going to extend an olive branch. I think you have made some valid points. And I found them interesting.

[LauraleeBraswell]

Well, I'm actually a Deist. I believe in right and wrong through reason. I believe that pornography is wrong because it makes women and men objects of lust and it contributes to loose sexually. There is nothing redeaming about pornography.

but pornography can be defined in many ways. Some people here made the differentiation between pornography and Erotica. Morals are personal and is it the federal governments job to reflect the morals of certain groups? For example, for fundamental Muslims it is immoral for a woman not to wear a Burka.

[LauraleeBraswell]

""You should be glad that your parents liked sex""

Yes they did. And it was a private matter and it made me. They had sex for them, not for someone else to watch.

[LauraleeBraswell]

I think Playboy can be classified as erotica.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Excellent Post.I totally agree. :0)

[LauraleeBraswell]

""I would instead try to deliver the message that many things are legal not because they're good, but because some people just have to learn the hard way why they're bad.""

But people aren't learning the hard way. Abortion is legal and all that has contributed to is more abortion.

[Modernman]

Sex, yes, porn no, not unless you radically redefine the definition of the word.

Not every conservative is a religious conservative. There is nothing un-conservative about wanting to read and view whatever you want in the privacy of your own home.

[Modernman]

But in the meantime, I surely don't think that government should APPROVE every vice either.

The government telling adults what they can and cannot read and view is a greater evil than adults viewing naughty pictures.

[SwankyC]

graybeard came up with a better answer

[jla]

Very good replies, and of course they like you! Who wouldn't like a teenager who espouses Conservatism along with having a good, moral grounding?
I see a lot of 18-19 year-olds who are mouthy, sloppy, rude and ignorant. Completely oblivious to how our gov't works, let alone the differences in various political philosophies.
I'm glad you don't allow people to intimidate you, Miss B. Keep asking questions and stay on the right path.

As for this thread's topic, how do you suppose Messrs Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Washington would have answered if asked, "should pornography be made illegal?"?

[Killborn]

Yes there does seem to be a connection...

Now where did I put my tin foil?

[LauraleeBraswell]

That's such an interesting question. When our founding fathers said we were entitled to Freedom of speech and the press, they meant something much deeper.. political freedom. Pornography is not free speech.

I think there has been too many abuses of free speech. Some people think flag burning is free speech. It isn't. Spitting on the constitution is not free speach.