Pornography - are you for or against it and why?

[thesummerqueen]

Making an activity illegal only creates more criminals,it doesn't eliminate the ones that already exist.

[fr0d0]

Making an activity illegal only creates more criminals,it doesn't eliminate the ones that already exist.

Can't argue with that!

[Anomalocaris]

Were it not for multi-tab browsing, I would be supporting porn rather than voting in favor of porn here.

[thesummerqueen]

Punish the fuckers that actually abuse children or adults - don't say that the entire industry should be eliminated simply because someone used it incorrectly.

I do believe we learned what happened when a much cherished 'vice' was made illegal during Prohibition.

[theVOID]

Exactly my Queen, it would be like saying we should ban cars because someone drove drunk and caused a crash.

[fr0d0]

That would be to dismiss though the opinion that everyone in the industry is exploiter/ exploited, which is an opinion I happen to hold. And I'm not saying ban it.

[thesummerqueen]

Technically, anything bought or sold is an exploitation of a good or service.

I really love plants - I want to exploit the shit out of a bit of earth and grow them, but then I don't get along with most people. Some people really like other people and fucking. Let them exploit their genitals, I say.

[fr0d0]

I think that would to be to stretch the definition a little

Yeah gardening is brutal ism. Leave nature be you sicko!!

Sex is great. No argument there. If you're veering into abuse then we're at the point where we might wanna protect the abused. Two people mutually abusing each other.. I dunno it's too hard to call. Say you had a desire to be eaten and found a cannibal willing to eat you... would that be right?

[reverendjeremiah]

Carlin: "Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. So why isn't selling fucking legal?"
Okay, he was talking about prostitution, but come on...how can anyone have any qualms about two consenting adults bumping uglies? And you show me a man/woman/couple/group of people and their dog watching porn and I'll show you a person/couple/group of people who aren't out causing any trouble to other taxpayers.

Porno should stay legal as long as all people involved are 18 or older and have proof that everything is consentual and disease free and not forced if made for profit in mind. These records should be kept stored at the local government the film was shot in.

If it is private, then no need for records or such, but I would prefer that it was consentual.

I am also for legalization of prostitution, but it should be monitored by the govt. to ensure women and men are not being forced to work in that profession against their will, that it remains clean and disease free. Street walkers should remain banned. Prostitution should be kept in a discreet and clean location with ample security and orderlies and that should also offer educational material on safe sex and STD's while also being a place of entertainment, drinking, Smoking pot would be nice, you know..sunday football type of stuff. In other words, good clean fun without the violence, murder, and disease...and the state would get tax income from it as well.

[Skipper]

Say you had a desire to be eaten and found a cannibal willing to eat you... would that be right?

Not really a fair comparison seeing as the act of sex is a lot less unnatural and as final as the act of one human being consuming another.

Some people are exploited who make clothes, that dosen't mean you oppose clothes being made surely? You oppose people exploiting clothes makers. Some people are exploited who pick rice. Do you oppose rice? No, you oppose the exploitation of rice pickers. See I can use extreme examples to make points too!

The VAST majority of people in porn are willing participants. This simple fact to me means there is no use or valid reason to oppose porn or the porn industry as a whole, even if there are some people being exploited, fight the exploitation, not porn!