What's wrong with porn?

Jesus and His Daddy don't like it!

Joe, yeah, I don't know. I guess it's like a lot of things....in my opinion, if it's not completely taking over someone's life, don't see the harm in it really. I'm talking human adult participant porn. If kids or animals are involved, that's just sick. (I guess the dog could be over in the corner watching.) But regular porn, gay or straight, with whichever parts going wherever the porny people can get 'em to go -- if people want to look at that, and if they can still take care of their obligations in life and also have recreational outlets aside from that, I really don't see the big deal.
2006 Slate article: Proof that Internet porn prevents rape

They don't really give a poop about porn. They just need to make a big noise about it, because there is NOBODY who is going to stand up and publicly defend it, including all the Republican producers of porn like Jenna Jameson.

Mitt, Newt and Little Ricky Sweater Vest all took a vow that they would "stop porn." Of course, it left the messy free speech issues out of it, along with details of how they would accomplish this goal.

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As soon as one of those idiots tries to stop porn (impossible) they would lose tons of votes. Tons.

Everyone on the right loves to bitch about the "evil of porn", but believe you me no one wants it taken away. In their secret little sanctimonious hearts they love porn just as much as anyone.

Not even going to address the 1st amendment issue because it's so obviously never going to happen.

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Taz, I wish people were that integrated in their kinky and real lives. I think a huge portion of the porn audience would still vote for the "lower taxes" candidates who just so happen to be against porn.

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Wow that looks ridiculous. I think there is some problem when porn oversaturates culture -- it sounds hypocritical, but I'm glad I was born just a small handful of years too late to have been a teenager growing up with the way porn is available online now (I remember managing to download a few photos--which took hours, and finding some porn fiction but nothing else really till I was 16 or so which seemed an ok age lol). But i also made some stupid mistakes meeting up with people from online, etc. So I do think, as hypocritical as I feel saying this, there is some problem when it's normal for every 12 year old to have seen some really extreme porn compared to twenty years ago when they might just hand around a magazine they found.

But that doesn't make porn itself evil, and obviously if you actually feel like it's a problem with your teenaged boy (or girl--honestly in high school I knew one girl much more obsessed with it than most of the guys), the only way to deal with it is make it clear to them that porn doesn't often reflect reality, maybe don't put a computer in your kids room and never pay attention towhat they're doing on it, etc. The idea to just somehow get rid of it (like that would ever happen) or tell them that it's bad or evil is just gonna cause worse issues.

It just proves the old second wave feminist mantra that our bodies are politicized. Look at how women's bodies are the ideological battlefield a certain stripe of politician uses rather than deal with topics that need attention.

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Which is weird, because you would think they would think people who watch porn ARE the lowest common denominator. It's a strange culture we live in.

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Dollypop - Like most Christians, I'm just going with whatever interpretation works in my favor. If homosexuality can be considered a greater sin than any other sin, then Mary Magdelene can be a cheap hooker. And the Last Supper...well...one can imagine the ways that's interpreted.

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The GOP swept into power at the federal and state levels in 2010 running on a platform of job creation, but they've spent their time in office reviving the culture wars. In addition to rolling back women's access to health services, they've made it more difficult for young and poor people to vote, and they've stripped unions of some rights. And guess what? In November, 45%-55% of the electorate will vote for them again.

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A lot of things

It's not that Jesus wouldn't have associated with a prostitute. It's that the canonical gospels say nothing about her being one. Pope Gregory the Great said that he believed she was a prostitute in 591, by identifying her as another woman named Mary who appears in the gospels as a prostitute. Of course Maryam (Mary) was the most common woman's name in Judea in the 1st Century so there is no reason to believe they are the same woman other than that the pope said he thought they were.