Pornography - are you for or against it and why?

[reverendjeremiah]

That's the exact same argument against videogames...

Then they will not censor or ban video games.

Yes that in effect is my stance. That was a good example as well. Looking at a drawing though isn't intended to immerse people in the experience. A drawing can be deemed "artistic erotica" and people can find beauty in it without the intent being to excite people's baser instincts. As Ash eluded to, video games and snuff films (and all the other illegal categories) are meant to draw in the audience and have them
"experience" that fantasy. That takes it out of simple visual recognition and processes it through the emotional memory centers of the brain and backs up the urges with chemical rewards. It increases compulsion if done regularly. If you can look at a snuff film of child abuse or rape and have no emotional response great... then it doesn't apply to you. But it apparently turns on a whole mess of people because they have their own porn category. I think that speaks volumes about the urges of the average person, and personally makes me sad to be human sometimes.

That is all fine and dandy, and yes, it makes sense. BUT! We are talking about something that people SHOULD KNOW is FICTIONAL, or ACTING. The idea that it is, in fact, fictional based IS a factor as well. Someone who wanted the real thing would not be searching in a place where he/she knows where it is just play acting.

Please...let us at least agree that there is a KNOWLEDGE that the material is fictional.