Porn article: BBCi

[Matt]

Is porn good for us?

[richy]

Thanks, Matt. A typically British view, though not as virulently 'anti' as has been the norm in the past, on a subject about which the rest of Europe accepts as part of life. The BBFC appears to have grown up, so now it's about time the journalists did the same.

[jj]

An amazing turn-round from the usual self-righteously puritanical crap.
I think most people have more important things to worry about, apart from the usual Single-issue Fanatics of course. Can we be finally growing up?

[Dibble]

Most anti porn creeps are just attention seeking small time sadoes. If society ignores them they will go away and annoy someone else. However, if they get an inkling that they are being taken seriously - as in the Sophie Dahl Opium perfume ad case - it gives them a sense of power (over millions) and makes them all the worse.

I could never work out the logic of banning a picture, or a program when 100 - 500 folks say they were offended, but 60 million other were either not bothered, or loved it! Hell, out of 60 million you would expect to get at least a couple of thousand raving loonies writing in! So, how come no one ever questions this?

Dibble.

[wolfie]

64 inches of naked worthlessness= Angela Dworkin. Has they're ever been an uglier human being on the planet? I did once attempt to read her book 'Pornography' , but it was such a bitter and twisted polemic as to be totally unreadable. This is a woman who believes that ALL penetrative sex is rape. This could be dismissed as ridiculous were it not for the fact that her influence spread to workers at rape crisis centres, who further traumatised rape victims by brainwashing them with 'the all men are potential rapists' Dworkinesque propaganda.
I don't in principle believe in book burning, but i'd make an exception in her case. But good for Glenda Jackson, a far more intelligent woman than the predictably anti-porn Labour luvvie MP's.

[david]

Let's face it, sex is for one thing and one thing only, Procreation of children. All of the anti's are right,pornography IS wrong. As a result of this we have prohibition of pornography and therefore a magnificent black market. I mean where would the fun be if this thing was not ever so such slightly illicit

[trivial pursuit fan]

So I can take it your not into any legal activities/hobbies because there's no thrill in it.

Interesting proposition,fatally flawed but interesting.


cheers
b...OZ

porn,sex,booze and Fun,
Everything in moderation!!

[Dibble]

With all due respect david, that sounds a load of biblical bollocks! Sex is is for enjoying anytime, anyplace, anywhere (within reason.)

Regarding the black market: Yes, it was magnificent while it lasted. But sadly, it is now a very lacklusture grey market. Which is the price of our new found (limited) freedom, I suppose.

Dibble.

[david]

Sorry, had too much to drink (again)

But I stand by what I say. Sex is for procreation, I mean my mate breeds lop eared rabbits and they just get on with it (sex).

They feel no compulsion to video it and watch it later, or exchange opinions on BRAFD (british rabbits adult film database)

Or is that because rabbits have not evolved enough to invent computers. I don't known, sorry going to bed.

[jj]

That is complete rubbish.
There ARE organisms in which sex is brief and solely for reproductive purposes, but they are a tiny minority. In most vertebrates, and ALL mammals, sex has a wider social/bonding function: in stress conditions it also serves a conduit for aggression and/or displacement activity.
You also seem to have confused correct utility with morality: if something is not used for its nominal purpose, then it's wrong? I don't think so.