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This is an interesting one for FR and conservatives.

There are those who think porn is an abomination and should be restricted and then there are those who are constitutionalists and say it's protected speech by the First Amendment.

Where do you stand?

1 posted on 09/01/2023 12:40:32 AM PDT by RandFan
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Freepers who use porn are a contradiction. You cant have it both ways, when this sick secular world understands that porn is bad, that is all you need to know. Everyone here who defends porn is admitting to using it while also identifying as conservative. You are a loser and the level of offense you gleem from that comment is the degree to which you have fallen. Hiding behind juvenile terms like liberterian does not mitigate that you are an addict. Abusing women for your lack of masculinity is just as evil as anything the left supports. Thinking women enjoy doing porn proves your profound immaturity about the opposite sex. You have no business being a parent.


45 posted on 09/01/2023 7:35:35 AM PDT by pghbjugop
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Pornography:

1: the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement

2: material (such as books or a photograph) that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement

3: the depiction of acts in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense emotional reaction

(the pornography of violence)

Definition 3 is the one to be concerned about in the future. And/or any new definitions added later as needed to control even more content.

“For many people, any attempt to define the word pornography calls to mind the oft-quoted line from Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in 1964: “. . . I know it when I see it.” While compilers of dictionaries might wish to be granted such latitude in explaining the meaning of certain words, they are held to a higher standard. Pornography, which has been used in English since the middle of the 19th century, comes from the Greek pornographos (“writing about prostitutes”), and initially referred to visual or written matter designed to cause sexual arousal, a meaning that is still the most common one employed today. Pornography has taken on an additional, >non-sexualized, sense: one that refers to a depiction of sensational material (such as violence) in order to elicit a reaction.< The phrase “pornography of violence,” for example, began to be used in the early 1950s.”

Keep this concept in mind as religion and conservatism are now being labelled and defined as white supremacist hate speech and “violence”. They will be the next “Porn” targets by definition. How is this very real cause and effect outcome so unrecognizable to most?


46 posted on 09/01/2023 7:44:50 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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What does it matter? America is fallen anyway. The sheep might as well dose themselves with Soma / porn. Dear God, I hate what this country has become.


48 posted on 09/01/2023 10:23:58 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Hold on, y'all, 2023 is going to be a ride you won't soon forget!)
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