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Porn caters to the fulfillment of the “advertised” version of human sexuality.
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_____ caters to the fulfillmet of the "advertised" version of human _____.
The prevalence of porn is endemic of a post-modern society. The enjoyment of porn (particularly more extreme porn) relies on a self-fragmentation.
To say that porn isn't harmful requires a very narrow definition of harm.
I think the biggest problem with this subject is the terms and metaphors through which we operate.
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Sex is a natural act.
Sin is overindulgence.
Pornography is adultery.
Adultery is sin.
Judgement is sin.
Everyone sins.
There are lots of contradictions here, and possible logical conclusions from these statements are entirely nonsensical.
The only quantifiable thing that anyone has said a reason that porn is bad morally relies on the social ramifications - women objectified, and promotes violence against women. In my world view which does not include "sin" as a moral compass, pornography as a whole is morally corrupt for these reasons. Pornography supports the objectification of self by reducing an emotional, mental, and physical act to a merely physical act with very limited emotions. The emphasis moves away from intimacy towards power-over and subjugation. A mature society, in my view, does not rely on creating and maintaining a subjugated class of any sort... pornography, then, is not liberating in the least - rather, it is oppressing.
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Sounds like this subject strikes a chord of shame with you, but don’t blame the sinners, blame the sin. Once you accept sin, the word is no longer offensive.
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This statement is just about the most confusing thing I've run across in a long time. Don't blame the cogent, thinking, responsible human - blame the act that this human does. I know that we live in an age of fragmentation - but are you really suggesting that people should not be held responsible for their actions?
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So, in other words, a lack of fulfillment within one’s sexual nature?
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Again, this implies a natural fragmentation. The radical fragmentation of identity is a social construct.
[edit: this is Will again... *shakes head at self* Janet and I just need to make a joint account... I fail to get this right too often]