Posted on 02/28/2005 5:53:06 PM PST by 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?
Playboy magazine contains pornography, beyond any doubt.
A hypothetical, Miss B.
You're cleaning your teenage son's room one Saturday and find a Playboy magazine. Do you...
a) Throw it in the trash and rebuke him
b) Set it on his nightstand.
Yes, moreso than straight sex... but straight sex can be unsafe as well. I don't think the increased dangers of legal sodomy can balance the infringement on our individual freedoms if it were criminalized. Would we have a "Sodomy Police?"
Of course it is.
Or perhaps by "porn" you meant "hardcore porn." You have to be accurate in your descriptions, or your meaning can get lost.
(shhh, we need those crazy liberatarians to win)
I don't see things as moral or immoral. Moral is an opinion, isn't it? Society sets morality. In Fundemental Islamic Society a woman without a burka is immoral. I see things as right or wrong, and right and wrong is universal.
Do you not see a distinction between 1.) whether something is morally right or wrong, and 2.) whether the government has any business regulating it?
ohh, good point, alright alright, it is porn.
:-)
Prostitution is not something exclusively involving adults.
in this sense it is. Pornography is not something exclusively involving adults either, but in this discussion, it has been defined as such to avoid confusion.
The supposed 18 year old old,who claims that she's done "extensive research on pornography", is yet again proving that she is either a fill fledged moron, or really bad at play acting being 1)a female 2)18.
Call up the rest of RBKA...this is just the kind of thread that needs all of us here. :-)
Don't confuse me with context. 8>) IMHO, Playboy = porn. My wife says so.
That is the exact libertarian problem. They have more trouble than conservatives in realizing right from wrong and want most vices open to the public like vitamins.
IMO they are borderline anarchists.
Their civilization IMO would look like "Escape from New York" the movie.
I never said I did extensive research. I've read some essays on both viewpoints. Stop being rude.
Throw it away and punish him, the same think I would do if he was smoking but that doesn't mean I wish the government to stop those above the age of 18 from having/doing either.
She's supposedly all of 18.....don't ask her a hypothetical like that,she doesn't think that anyone outside of N.Y.C. (where she supposedly does NOT live!) is a stock broker/bond broker/lawyer/doctor/etc. and can't imagine HOW they make a living! ROTFLOL
With the proliferation of the internet, banning porn is all but impossible.
Feeling non sequitur today?
Never read "Harry Potter" but I know it's porn.
Pornography has 11 letters and so does Harry Potter.
Coincidence?
I think not.
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