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View Poll Results: Is online pornography obscene or decent?
Obscene 8 33.33%
Decent 16 66.67%
Voters: 24. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 02-18-2018, 06:40 PM
 
Location: NJ/NY
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Oh my god.
That has to be a troll post.

I will sleep better tonight convincing myself of that.

 
Old 02-18-2018, 06:41 PM
 
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Originally Posted by 16 Acres View Post
Child pornography is illegal.

Why can't adult pornography be illegal as well?
Children can't buy booze.
Therefore, why can't we make booze illegal as well?
 
Old 02-18-2018, 06:41 PM
 
Location: SW Virginia
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And yes i think all online pornography should be stopped.
Agree.
 
Old 02-18-2018, 06:42 PM
 
Location: SW Virginia
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Children can't buy booze.
Therefore, why can't we make booze illegal as well?
They did at one time...
 
Old 02-18-2018, 07:04 PM
 
Location: Gaston, South Carolina
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So if pornography is protected by the first amendment and is a victimless thing, according to insane liberal progressives, then the ownership of firearms should not be restricted in any way and fully protected under the second amendment.
So you had to make a fake post about pornography to make an old analogy about guns? Come back when a guy kills 17 people with porn. Then we'll talk.
 
Old 02-18-2018, 07:11 PM
 
Location: SW Virginia
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Well, it looks like I just answered my own question. Evidently it falls under "the artistic expression protections of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution".

But to dig into this a little deeper, what if and why can't the subject of "the artistic expression" be changed to a different interpretation? As in my opinion, it is not Art and who's fooling who? The majority of the people viewing it are not looking at it Artistically.

And where and when did someone draw the line to it being illegal till a certain age, then it becomes legal? That's the part I want to see in writing.
 
Old 02-18-2018, 07:14 PM
 
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Well, it looks like I just answered my own question. Evidently it falls under "the artistic expression protections of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution".

But to dig into this a little deeper, what if and why can't the subject of "the artistic expression" be changed to a different interpretation? As in my opinion, it is not Art and who's fooling who? The majority of the people viewing it are not looking at it Artistically.

And where and when did someone draw the line to it being illegal till a certain age, then it becomes legal? That's the part I want to see in writing.
Damn, that's 90% of the art I look at. And it is Art....of course, only a small percentage of it. Art is in the eye and mind of the beholder, but when a woman (or man for some) spends a LOT of time making her "temple" (remember, the body is each of our temples) into something that Michelangelo would have loved to carve, that's art. Even better, it's alive.

How can one look at drawings, statues, etc. of ancient times and then claim nudity or the female form is not art?

Nice try tho.

Note - much (most) stuff I look at I don't like. But that's my taste in art. I'd say the same if I was in a store where they sold pottery.

BTW, Trumps 130K Ho - that's not art. I checked her out and....nah. Trump was making fun before of fake boobs.....looks like he doesn't care anymore. She looks like she got the bargain job.
 
Old 02-18-2018, 07:19 PM
 
Location: SW Virginia
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Damn, that's 90% of the art I look at. And it is Art....of course, only a small percentage of it. Art is in the eye and mind of the beholder, but when a woman (or man for some) spends a LOT of time making her "temple" (remember, the body is each of our temples) into something that Michelangelo would have loved to carve, that's art. Even better, it's alive.

How can one look at drawings, statues, etc. of ancient times and then claim nudity or the female form is not art?

Nice try tho.
What you are talking about and Pornography are Two different things.

Did you ever see Michelangelo carve out anything like the extreme examples of what is available online?

If Michelangelo ever did, they would had ran him out of town.
 
Old 02-18-2018, 07:27 PM
 
Location: Just over the horizon
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Originally Posted by Cheesesteak Cravings View Post
Porn is obviously obscene. But are you proposing increasing censorship of the internet?
Obscenity is in the eye of the beholder.

Yes, I know there's laws regarding community standards, but what community rules over the Internet?

Personally, I think if you did away with online porn, the Internet would collapse overnight.

Millions of people don't pay $80.00 a month for a high speed connection to argue on city data....lol.

Fact is, porn has become a lot more mainstream than it used to be.
 
Old 02-18-2018, 08:40 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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Your statements already reflect the status quo. So what are you arguing?
It appears this thread was created by the OP as a soapbox from which he can make derisive comments about groups of people he disagrees with.
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