Considering Voting For Kerry

[opebo]

..and the Sex Industry is huge?

Yeah I said 'aside from the obvious'

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

Imagine a World without porn???

Scary

Honestly the USA is already so tense and uptight I think if you took away porn you'ld have road rage incidents every rush hour in every city.  

Whenever I return from laid back (emphasis on the LAID) Thailand I'm shocked at all the male tension/aggression over here.

Is that from a shortage of porn, or a glut of sex obsession?

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

I had a spasm of considering voting for Kerry today.  I was reading Reason magazine down at the Barnes and Noble, when I came across this article:
http://www.reason.com/0405/fe.gb.xtreme.shtml
Apparently the prudes and moralists in the GOP are going after the American porn industry - practically the only outlet left for 'realization' of normal male inclinations in our puritannical/feminist society, and also one of our few truly competitive industries.

War, economics, all important - but this hits me where I live.  I'm considering Kerry.

I'm sure that all this country needs is more porn to become a healthy society.

I'm all for freedom of expression.  But there are limits.  "Decency" and "community standards" are not antequated relics from an oppressive society.  We learned, over the course of millennia, how to contain and subdue animal lusts so that we can behave like civilized human beings.  We are in the process of throwing out all that progress in a few short decades.  This will result in the death of society.  Chaos and violence will replace order and security.

I have no problem with what people do in the privacy of their own homes, but when society starts breaking down, it's no longer a private matter.  Children are being born out of wedlock.  This is a huge problem.  Children are being raised in one-parent homes.  This is a huge problem.  Children are being exposed to sexuality before they have the emotional maturity to understand its consequences.  This is a huge problem.  Women and children are being abused by men, who grow more sex-obsessed by the year.  This is a huge problem.

All of this is happening because of relaxing standards in mass-communication.  When what you communicate is seen, heard, and read by all and sundry, it is the responibility of the community (the national community and the local community) to define standards of decency and enforce them.  The American people are crying out for this, and the conservative politicians are listening to them.  If the liberals want to stick their heads in the sand, or listen to ACLU claptrap about "free speech," they do so at their own peril.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

"Hard Core"/degenerate/devient/violent/abusive pornography should be banned

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

"Hard Core"/degenerate/devient/violent/abusive pornography should be banned

I don't think any pornography should be "banned," as long as nothing occurring in the porn is illegal.

I do think that anything not conforming to community standards of decency (using the Burger Test) should be kept private.  That means out of convenience stores and bookstores, and sold only in "sex shops" (if a community wants to allow sex shops, that's their perogative) or online, or by mail-order.  And kept off of broadcast radio and tv.

[YRABNNRM]

"Hard Core"/degenerate/devient/violent/abusive pornography should be banned

I don't think any pornography should be "banned," as long as nothing occurring in the porn is illegal.

I do think that anything not conforming to community standards of decency (using the Burger Test) should be kept private.  That means out of convenience stores and bookstores, and sold only in "sex shops" (if a community wants to allow sex shops, that's their perogative) or online, or by mail-order.  And kept off of broadcast radio and tv.

I agree with that.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

"Hard Core"/degenerate/devient/violent/abusive pornography should be banned

I don't think any pornography should be "banned," as long as nothing occurring in the porn is illegal.

I do think that anything not conforming to community standards of decency (using the Burger Test) should be kept private.  That means out of convenience stores and bookstores, and sold only in "sex shops" (if a community wants to allow sex shops, that's their perogative) or online, or by mail-order.  And kept off of broadcast radio and tv.

I agree with that.

The Burger Test doesn't get the respect it deserves.  It strikes the perfect balance between individual liberty and the rights of the community.

[Gustaf]

"Hard Core"/degenerate/devient/violent/abusive pornography should be banned

I don't think any pornography should be "banned," as long as nothing occurring in the porn is illegal.

I do think that anything not conforming to community standards of decency (using the Burger Test) should be kept private.  That means out of convenience stores and bookstores, and sold only in "sex shops" (if a community wants to allow sex shops, that's their perogative) or online, or by mail-order.  And kept off of broadcast radio and tv.

I agree with that.

The Burger Test doesn't get the respect it deserves.  It strikes the perfect balance between individual liberty and the rights of the community.

I agree with that principle as well.

[opebo]

Imagine a World without porn???

Scary

Honestly the USA is already so tense and uptight I think if you took away porn you'ld have road rage incidents every rush hour in every city.  

Whenever I return from laid back (emphasis on the LAID) Thailand I'm shocked at all the male tension/aggression over here.

Is that from a shortage of porn, or a glut of sex obsession?

From sexual frustration.