[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

What the article didn’t mention was that pornography, to a great extent, has only been *legal* since the late 1950s, and even then, it was very tame by today’s standards.

But, at the same time, when it was illegal, there was a substantial black market for it. For example, the infamous “plain brown wrapper” packages from Cuba, a major exporter of porn. Stag films were de rigueur at bachelor parties, and there are now museums dedicated to “pornography as art” from about the 16th Century onward.

Even in ancient history, pornography was ubiquitous. The Romans loved it, and the ancient Hebrews were known for their dirty poetry.

[Mrs. Don-o]

There's no doubt that salacious literature and graphic sexual display has been with us since ancient history. An ancient pedigree does not make a thing either good or bad. The ancients had servile pederasty, courtship by bride-capture, castration of boy sopranos, sex-slave recruitment by abduction, and abortion by toxic poultice and pointed stick. That doesn't make it right. And it doesn't make the suppression of those practices unreasonable.

Second, note well this simile:

16th century nudes: internet pornography :: 16th century beer: IV heroin.

What we have today is corrosive beyond compare; there's not been anything like it ever in the history of the world for technical production values, universal instant accessibility, and rank perversion.

Although whatever was going on on the threshing-floor of Baal-peor (Hosea Chapter 9) might be comparable in terms of an abomination that stinks to Heaven and pollutes the earth, and a spectacle that pleases the Slayer.