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02-14-2007, 03:18 AM
Pornograph. Just seeing the word causes the collective gasp across the globe.
Yet not even the United States Supreme Court can give porn a definition. In a crowd of 10 people you could get 10 definitions of what porn is. The person on your right may consider Michelangelo's David to be obscene, while the person to your left may see it as a work of art.
Widely renowned books such as, "Anne Frank: Dairy of a Young Girl," "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and "Ulysses" by James Joyce have all been considered pornographic at one time or another. But remember, these are some of the books we considers classics today.
"I even get e-mail from fans at Harvard," said Jenna Haze, Best New Starlett of 2003 at the Adult Video News (AVN) awards in Las Vegas.
Playboy is one of the hottest selling magazines on the planet, with a circulation of 3.2 million in 22 countries including the U.S., Japan, France and Germany just to name a few. "Playboy was founded on the notion that nice girls like sex too," said Hugh Hefner, owner of the Playboy corporation. Celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy, Carmen Electra, Drew Barrymore, Shannon Doherty and Charisma Carpenter (of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") have graced the cover of Playboy.
There are 12,000 people employed in the U.S. porn industry, mostly in and around San Fernando Valley, Calif. These people and the consumers who buy their products generate $30 million in sales tax for California each year. Twelve thousand people are making a conscience decision to participate in consensual sex acts and let someone else record it.
"I guess you can say I'm just actively living out all the fantasies I had in high school," Roxy West told Testosterone Nation. She also went on to say, "Porn enables me to do just that. While getting paid for it, of course."
Watching porn doesn't hurt the people who watch it and does not hurt the people who participate in it, so why should one be denied the right. Think of the couples who need to spice up their love life. Perhaps they could pop the pornographic DVD into the player and discover new ideas or finally discuss those high school fantasies.
Then you have the pure entertainment value of watching the movie. How many porn watchers can say they have not sat back and laughed at the obviously fake breasts or wondered which doctor helped that young man grow in his "nether" region?
Who is getting hurt from watching a pornographic movie, or looking at a "dirty" magazine? Is the human body not a work of art itself?
"If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not to me," said Larry Flynt, founder of Hustler.
source (http://media.www.theallstate.com/media/storage/paper801/news/2007/02/14/Opinion/Embrace.Porn.It.Can.Help-2716802.shtml?sourcedomain=www.theallstate.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com)
Yet not even the United States Supreme Court can give porn a definition. In a crowd of 10 people you could get 10 definitions of what porn is. The person on your right may consider Michelangelo's David to be obscene, while the person to your left may see it as a work of art.
Widely renowned books such as, "Anne Frank: Dairy of a Young Girl," "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and "Ulysses" by James Joyce have all been considered pornographic at one time or another. But remember, these are some of the books we considers classics today.
"I even get e-mail from fans at Harvard," said Jenna Haze, Best New Starlett of 2003 at the Adult Video News (AVN) awards in Las Vegas.
Playboy is one of the hottest selling magazines on the planet, with a circulation of 3.2 million in 22 countries including the U.S., Japan, France and Germany just to name a few. "Playboy was founded on the notion that nice girls like sex too," said Hugh Hefner, owner of the Playboy corporation. Celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy, Carmen Electra, Drew Barrymore, Shannon Doherty and Charisma Carpenter (of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") have graced the cover of Playboy.
There are 12,000 people employed in the U.S. porn industry, mostly in and around San Fernando Valley, Calif. These people and the consumers who buy their products generate $30 million in sales tax for California each year. Twelve thousand people are making a conscience decision to participate in consensual sex acts and let someone else record it.
"I guess you can say I'm just actively living out all the fantasies I had in high school," Roxy West told Testosterone Nation. She also went on to say, "Porn enables me to do just that. While getting paid for it, of course."
Watching porn doesn't hurt the people who watch it and does not hurt the people who participate in it, so why should one be denied the right. Think of the couples who need to spice up their love life. Perhaps they could pop the pornographic DVD into the player and discover new ideas or finally discuss those high school fantasies.
Then you have the pure entertainment value of watching the movie. How many porn watchers can say they have not sat back and laughed at the obviously fake breasts or wondered which doctor helped that young man grow in his "nether" region?
Who is getting hurt from watching a pornographic movie, or looking at a "dirty" magazine? Is the human body not a work of art itself?
"If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not to me," said Larry Flynt, founder of Hustler.
source (http://media.www.theallstate.com/media/storage/paper801/news/2007/02/14/Opinion/Embrace.Porn.It.Can.Help-2716802.shtml?sourcedomain=www.theallstate.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com)