(March 31, 2011 at 8:31 am)Skipper Wrote: While I don't really get any kicks out of fake snuff films or abusive porn surely if there is a market for those things, and people want to see them then the fake, regulated, legal porn that the the porn industry makes is a better way for people to get their kicks? It's either that or force it underground where we can't control or regulate it at all. Banning anything where there is a demand NEVER works. People will still go looking for what they want, I'd rather they be getting what they want via a regulated porn industry (even if the content is borderline) produced by consenting participants than an underground source where the abuse and exploitation is going to be real and possibly lacking consent from either party.
My only problem is that we are a society that still has demands for those kinds of things. I can't make the demand go away and that's frustrating. I agree that prohibition never works. I've never once stated that I sought an abolishment of pornography, only that I couldn't support an industry with stardards and protections that supported theese morally abhorrent demands. I was expressing the possibility of legal porn, as an industry, regulating itself to the extend that it creates a distinct seperation bettween the more abhorrent sexual practices and erotica. Which categorizing porn categories as they do, easily circumventable age appropriate content restrictor, and having the budget of a huge industry yet lining the pockets of individuals rather than funneling some of that money back into the image of the industry is clearly not headed in the direction, IMO.
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