RE: Pro-porn, anti-porn or in between?
December 1, 2012 at 10:23 pm
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2012 at 10:31 pm by Aractus.)
(December 1, 2012 at 10:21 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: Vincent stated that he had scientific proof of it being unhealthy. And he didnt.Of course he doesn't. That would be like having scientific proof of sex being unhealthy.
(December 1, 2012 at 10:18 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: There's actually a bit of controversy over the meaning of pornea. It's not clear anymore what it means exactly. The best translation of it I've heard is simply "sexual immorality."That's not a good translation. It's a loose translation and completely wrong. Pornea does not mean anything to do with "morality" it has to do with sex acts, not with morals. "sexual deviants" would be closer to the meaning than "sexual immorality". Pornea would certainly not even include viewing pornography, because it doesn't concern itself with morality.
The only way that you could demonstrate pornea includes masturbation is if you found it to be used to specifically mean masturbate. You could find it in any greek writing from the correct time period. For instance, "I walked into the room, and he was there all alone committing pornea!" Even then it wouldn't prove it outright, since there is no ancient Greek word for "masturbation" and the person writing the story would have to use some word, and may have been exercising his creative license.
(December 1, 2012 at 10:18 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Same with the word that has been traditional translated as homosexual. That word isn't clear to many scholars anymore either.And what word would that be exactly?