Sounds like Germany, according to my father and brother ... and while beer for breakfast is not my cup of coffee, it's not exactly a moral trauma.
I'm for free speach, and that means porn too. What appauls me is that these folks aren't just happy to appeal to adults. They don't seem to mind at all that their work winds up in he hands of kids. That's were I draw the line. Course with some of today's parents, how are you going to prevent that?
It's a real problem and I don't have and answer for it.
Drum roll, cymbal crash!
Just another sign that our society is sinking into decadence, as if we really needed another sign. Of course porn is mainstream. Most of the high school students I teach hint broadly that they are familiar with the material - not that I talk about directly, since it would be very inappropriate, but when an inadvertant double-entre comes up in discussion, the snickers begin. One time I went to home visit and saw preschoolers watching a porn video on the television under the lack of supervision of the parents. For the teachers, a fair number don't care. We even had a librarian who used to e-mail hardcore porn on the school server to the select dozens of fellow school district employees - and when he received a complaint, the persons making the complaint were vilified and shunned. He continued to send the porn right up until his departure, and I believe he was still doing it from his new job in another school district, where he taught second grade. I keep thinking we have hit bottom when I discover more room down below.
Ya think?
I used to irritate the heck out of my guidance/career councellor in school when I told him that I wanted to be a pornographer. I was a smarta$$ kid.
How does she make them so lifelike?
England is reaping what it's society has sown. It would be so in the US were it not for people who have at least a moral base line from which they live their lives usually connected to their religious faith. In the case of Europe, they have very precious little influance from religious faith except the religion of murder known as radical muslim.
Pornography is the celebration of selfishness.
If we make porn common and normal, women will no longer get paid thousands of dollars a night. Supply and Demand. It takes no talent to be a female porn star, and you're only getting paid because most women have too much class to do what you are doing.
The more women enter the field, the less any of them will make.
Not to be too crass, but I imagine prostitution is the same way. I know HBO has some series about the "rabbit ranch" or something like that where women get paid thousands of dollars a night to have sex with men who come from other states.
But if prostitution was legal everywhere, I'm sure there'd be plenty of illegals willing to undercut the going rate, and "good women" wouldn't be tempted by the exhorbitant money. I guess this is the same argument used by people who want to legalize drugs.
I'm not arguing we SHOULD legalize stuff, just saying that people already IN the business probably don't want the stigma reduced.
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You know, she was approached by some TV producers who wanted her to host a "Who Wants to Be a Porn Star" type show, similar to the premise of American Idol. She was appalled by the idea, and said she didn't want to influence girls to choose her career.
How sad is it when the porn star has more sense than the TV producers?
Barney Frank's role model as well, wasn't she?
You've come a long way, baby....the oldest profession...everything old is new again.
Al Gore's porn superhighway is going to do enormous damage to society. Apple's video iPod is the next step toward all porn, all the time.
Women have always consumed porn, only it was usually in the form of romance novels. I swear, if men knew what was going in the books so many of their wives read, they'd never let us complain about Playboy again.
(Yes, I do like romance novels, but the ones in the Bertrice Small vein are just ridiculous, so I stick to Regency, which is still ridiculous, but at least it's clean)
Later must pingout.