On “On Porn and Society”

It’s been several months since Paul Morris/Treasure Island Media and MOC teamed up to bring you a different perspective on porn, society and how the two seem to fit so well together. Looking back I think we’ve hit on something. Porn, in all its infinite varieties, seems to outgrow its skin with each passing day looking for wider and more validating audiences. Porn is everywhere and it’s a victory for every free-thinking individual out there. Hypothetically speaking, if porn ever were to be silenced the results would be disastrous. Sex would literally go underground forcing its participants to engage in what would then be called Illegal Behavior. And we can barely imprison people fast enough now! You can’t criminalize sexuality. Or, perhaps, you can but not for long and not without consequences.

Pornography is a way for society to understand its relationship with others in a forum that’s non-judgmental but taps into a very primal urge particular to men – the need to sexualize things. That’s normally not bad but when it can’t find a healthy outlet – which pornography does do for a good majority of its viewers/participants – we end up with goat lovers and all other manner of sexual deviancy. Thank goodness, then, for porn.

Pornography remains precisely because we don’t know what we as a society would do without it. Its elimination – or the threat thereof - would be, to those opposed, a final nail in the coffin in the war against sexuality and, to those in favor, it would be one more reason why pornography needs to be validated and will likely be very soon.



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