[Lorianne]

Looks like we agree, then. I conceed that porn producers may not intend to set standards, but they do set them nevertheless. As does any media especially one consumed by the number of people who consume porn. It is part of the package.

And I do maintain that they editorialize that using porn is "cool" as a standard of sexual sophisticaton and criticising it is the opposite. This is a pro-active marketing tool.

No one should allow themselves to be bullied or intimidated from excercising their free speech rights, which include open, free and public criticism of media of all kinds.

[Starwind]

And I do maintain that they editorialize that using porn is "cool" as a standard of sexual sophisticaton and criticising it is the opposite. This is a pro-active marketing tool.

You are absolutely right. This is one mode of gradually lowering society's moral standard....slowly boiling the frog as it were.

No one should allow themselves to be bullied or intimidated from excercising their free speech rights, which include open, free and public criticism of media of all kinds.

I agree again.

Where pornography is concerned, because of it's addictive and corrosive nature, I would advocate some controls only so that children are protected, and my free choice to avoid it is not overridden by spam, junk snail mail, billboards, movie ratings, telemarketers, etc.