A few excerpts from an article in The Washington Post today concerning pornographgy:
[I]The popularization of pornography is everywhere. In the suburbs, the shopping mall, the movie theater, the radio, the television, our living rooms: Pop Porn.
“Pornography has lost its political purposes and is now ‘naturalized’ as just another form of representation,” says Lynn Hunt, author of “The Invention of Pornography” and a professor of history at UCLA.
“Years ago, you could think it was somebody else’s problem,” says Bruce A. Taylor, president and chief counsel of a Fairfax-based anti-porn group, the National Law Center for Children and Families. “It was a big city problem. A guy problem. A dirty old man problem. But the Internet has put hard-core movies in everybody’s home.”
“Most families have people who have seen hard-core porn. A majority of Americans have experienced it. Now they know what’s wrong with it.”[/I]
So, pornography is a multi-billion dollar industry. This article is only talking about the United States, but what’s going on in other parts of the world? I am curious to know if the same things are happening out there…in Germany, or Denmark, or anywhere. I was always under the impression that the laws concerning pornography had a little more leeway in other countries than here in the States, but I could be mistaken. I know there are also different laws ranging from state to state.
But, in hopes to start a discussion, if you read the article I’ve linked to…with pornography apparently going mainstream…where do you draw the line? I’m not talking about kiddie porn and animal porn…I don’t think that’ll ever be legal…it’s just not natural. Sex sells, right? But seriously, is there a time when it goes too far?
