(January 6, 2024 at 1:16 am)Belacqua Wrote: Just because the speaker is conservative doesn't mean he is speaking nonsense. For example, he says:
Quote:The essence of pornography is taking what is really an experience between two subjects (a man and a woman) and turning it into a consumable commodity. Sex is not a product. It’s not something that can instantly downloaded by an isolated individual and then discarded after it accomplishes its purpose. Sex is personal. It’s human. It’s experiential. Pornography, especially online pornography, creates an artificial product that cannot really satisfy, because it was taken from something that is ontologically different.
Well, he is talking nonsense. Who is he (or you) to dictate what will people find sexually gratifying or not? Seems like another self-righteous Christian nonsense.
Besides porn, there are many other ways that people find sexual gratification which is not just "between two subjects (a man and a woman)", like when women have sex with vibrators and men with plastic vaginas - all without the so-called "consequences" (whatever they may be).
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
