[little jeremiah]

I'm merely basing my opinion on:

A. Every single monotheistic religion in the world, also including Buddhism
B. The stated viewpoint of the original Founding Fathers and many of their honorable, thoughtful and wise contemporaries.
C. My unclouded commone sense and intelligence, and powers of observation.
D. Great thinkers current and ancient.
E. History.

You are basing your opinion on your sexual desires and the need to see those desires justified.

Hmm, I wonder which viewpoint carries the most weight?

[little jeremiah]

And you limited what my point was. I am not saying that there should never be allowed any sexual imagery. I am saying that untrammeled sexual libertinism is a good way to ruin civilization.

I am not in favor of putting skirts on piano "limbs", burkhas, or defacing legitimate art work. There is a vast gulf between prudery and an out of control porno industry along with an anything goes sexually libertine social atmosphere.

[eno_]

I see. So the federal laws against pornography at the time of the Founding were... ?

In Jesus's time, sexual imagry was a) unheard of; b) a common household decoration that survives to this day in, at least, mosiacs in Roman homes.

And would your "common sense" and "powers of observation" have more to do with pulpit-pounding preachers pushing their own view of hell fire, or with the actual history of sexual expression in society?