[oldleft]

The problem with what you're saying is that it's impossible in a secular society to define "porn." Is it people engaged in sexual acts? Is it nudity? Is it images, or does the written word fall into the category?

Porn is protected speech, just as disturbing art is and graphic violence. Go to rotten.com and tell me if you think those images have more of an impact on society than porn.

Trying to control porn is a classic example of trying to legislate morality. The fact is millions and millions of people patronize porn every day and lead normal, happy lives. It may bother you, but that doesn't give you or any one else the right to tell some one what they can or can't read in their own home.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***The problem with what you're saying is that it's impossible in a secular society to define "porn." Is it people engaged in sexual acts? Is it nudity? Is it images, or does the written word fall into the category?***

Woe is me! What shall I do with my copies of Leda and the Swan from the 1500's! Or my pictures of David and Bathsheba? What of my pictures of Jupiter getting it on with various women!

What must I do with my copy of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Hemmingway! The cadence of his words so, so, perverse! Yet he says nothing offensive!

[Sam the Sham]

To the libertarian, ACLU, Hollywood secular mentality, porn is protected speech. It wasn't before 1960. Bad legal judgements destroyed the power of communities to enforce moral norms. And now we will have the power to fill the judiciary with judges who will reverse this.

To the Chrisian and the conservative, porn is cultural srychnine. To your party of cultural anarchy, which has nothing in the least to do with conservatism, hey, anything goes if someone will pay for it.