Quote:I’m saying I’d like the porn industry to take some accountability for its affect on society and stop trying to cater to illegal demands blurring the lines of legality and encouraging/ promoting fantasies of rape, abuse and exploitation.
So some porn portrays illegal stuff, so what? What about movies, video games? You don't even have to be talking about modern movies, like casablanca for example; Rick shoots the german officer at the end. That's murder. So he was a nazi, does mean it's not murder? Of course not! But who cares? You think somebody watched casablanca and wanted to murder somebody afterward? Also, that's no spoiler; he was a nazi of course he was gonna die! I know some people like to blame movies and video games for violence the same way you seem to be suggesting porn encourages pedophilia, rape or disregard for women - as if there was no violence or rape in the world before the 1940s. I don't buy the argument that people do heinous shit because they saw it in a movie, video game or a porn. People have done heinous shit all throughout history and it seems we need little excuse or reason to do so. On a side note, it's funny nobody mentions literature on this topic. Again, you don't even have to look at modern literature, look at the Iliad, Beowulf, hell the OT is full of violence, genocide, rape, you name it. I suppose what I'm asking is, unless you want to sanitize all media, why single out porn?
Also as far as taking extra measures to prevent minors from accessing porn, why? 14 year olds (males anyway :p) are definitely interested in sex, and they will find a way to satiate this interest. Whether it's internet porn, magazine porn (that's right, I found my dads' porn stash when I was a kid. and....it....was....awesome!) or experimenting with somebody. I don't see what can be gained from trying to tell them that sexual desire is dirty and to be repressed, or can only be experienced after marriage. In my opinion that's far damaging than some porn with a 28 year old actress with pigtails pretending to be a babysitter.
