Posted on 02/28/2005 5:53:06 PM PST by LauraleeBraswell
Prostitution: one adult pays another adult for sex- is illegal
Pornography: Where one adult pays two adults to have sex and brings a camera, This is legal.
Pornography has been around for over one hundred years, since the time of the camera,
but it has only been the last few decades where it became the money making industry that it is today. And today's pornography is much much worse.
This question came to me after reading this article
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1353029/posts
an excerpt "The Justice Department is appealing the dismissal of an obscenity case in Pittsburgh in which a federal judge said prosecutors went too far in trying to block the sale of pornographic movies over the Internet and through the mail. The case initially was prosecuted under Ashcroft""
Should pornography be illegal?
It's an opinion question, you answer, give your reasons. Is it free speech or not? Why. And where is the line drawn? Has pornography promoted homosexuality and unsafe sex? Or is it a privacy issue?
Should there be standards on pornography?
Concerned Women for America say No- what do you think?
IMO, it should be illegal.
"Defend Pornography tell me its endearing qualities?"
Well, of course it should be illegal.
That is, as long as I am the one who decides what's porn and what's not!
Fed Gov should not enforce such laws. Leave it to the states.
But the problem is not with the laws but with culture. Restructuring a moral culture will help create a population that is much less tolerant of pornography and the like. People will avoid it out of moral conscience or fear of shame.
And prostitution has,since the dawn of time,involved more people than just the prostitute and the "john"!FYI...even in ancient times,when prostitution was legal,pornography wasn't!
Another silly question from you? Not enough homework to keep you occupied,dear?
Does Playboy count as pornogaphy?
Who decides what's porn and what isn't? Lolita? Romeo and Juliet? Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure? The Symposium?
If you don't have something interesting to say, then don't say anything. I'm not talking about art. And I have read up on it, I want to know what people HERE think.
The gov't should treat prostitution as a business arrangement, like buying food: there are regulations and health/safety standards, but otherwise the government doesn't tell you what to eat.
And there is something in the culture that I do not like can we make that illegal too?
What if everyone in America gets to choose one thing to make illegal?
That should work well.
Porn, the taped or photographed act of two people having intercourse to be distributed for mass viewing.
No, but Harry Potter is.
hi hi hi :9
Yes. Playboy is pron.
That sounds like a very Christian solution.
Making something legal tends to "normalize" it.
It would have a terrible effect, I think, on the minds of people to suddenly have pornography be considered legal/normal.
It's like calling "evil" to be "good."
Once you begin to lose all moral foundations, then society crumbles....maybe it's a slow crumble, but still it falls.
Think of the effect, for example, on people's minds (and hearts) if child prostitution were suddenly legalized/normalized.
Without moral boundaries, society falls into depravity.
Who should set the standard for what is porn and what is not?
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