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Monday, February 4 2008

Small towns stay away from porn

This is not breaking news, but I just read an article about a small town taking a stand against porn, or rather a stand against anything deemed too sexy. And I just don’t understand why. Porn does not make people bad, porn is entertainment that happens to have sex, or sexual situations. You may even call it sexy entertainment if you so choose. You are not supposed to take it any more seriously than you take a monster who attacks New York or a child who sees dead people. Yes, not everyone involved in porn (whether written or video) decides that it’s the best move for their career, but there are a lot of things people try and don’t like. Still, here in America, especially small town America we can’t seem to decipher between what is real and what is not. And that’s why we keep mistaking porn for real life situations. I’ll say it again, porn is for entertainment value, not to be taken as word of G-d.

I’m reading this fantastic Canadian book on pornography by Debbie Nathan and she gives you the real, unbiased deal on porn. Basically she says the negative hype around porn is over-inflated (hell yeah!) and the media spin is always going to slant it so that people talk trash about porn.

Seriously folks, if porn was so harmful to the American population then we’d have way more problems around porn than we actually have. In fact, according to Nathan’s book:

A 2001 study by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation found that seven out of ten fifteen- to seventeen-year-olds in the United States have looked at pornography online. In another survey, completed in 2004, seven in ten eightee- to twenty-four-year-old men reported that they had visiting an online porn site in the month before the study was conducted.

That means that a lot of men (and women) have looked at porn and this hasn’t made them do crazy things. I’ve been reading a lot lately about soldiers who have come back from war and done crazy things, like kill innocent people because war made them crazy, but apparently porn is more evil than war. It seems that the fight against porn is more important in certain small towns then the fact that war is making some soldiers return home way more scarred and abusive than watching 20 minutes of two (or more) people having sex ever will.

If you want to read the story about how February is declared the White Ribbon Against Porn Month you can (I’ve linked to the article in the first paragraph), but basically they’re trying to crack down on cell phone porn, oh and Victoria’s Secret sexy advertising. Whether or not you view the latter as porn is your thing, but maybe as we continue to show extreme violence on primetime TV, we can continue to blame porn for all the evils of this world. I mean promoting violence is cool, right?

Maybe what we need to do is encourage more people to speak to their children about sex. This is just stupid already. When are people going to wake up and see that there are plenty of worse things than porn* out there.

*this is not to say there’s not bad porn, it’s just to say there’s positive porn around and worth supporting

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