White_Savage said:
Okay, Riggins, I am one of those people who is also libertarian to think that legalizing prostitution might be okay, but your way of comparing the two is absurd. No one ever caught an STD from porn, and porno movies don't form swarms on the sidewalk on certain streets, etc.
I also put the idea that pornography nessecarily leads to hordes of sex-crazed rapists right up there with the idea that violent video games lead to shootings or that allowing so-called "racist" dialogue leads directly to another incarnation of 1940s Germany...silly and alarmist.
BTW, the thing responsible for the break-up of most White families, and I have seen this over and over, has nothing to with booze, drugs, porn, or anything else. It has to do with the fact that women have been carefully taught to be insufferable harpies towards the boyfriend/husband, to believe they are doing him some sort of a favor by having a relationship with him, to be disastisfied and blame the husband when life isn't like a romance movie, and to think that the fact that a man wants to run his own household is some sort of tyrannical oppression. Oh yeah, and the incredible strain, tension, and bad economic effects caused by encouraging/forcing married women to work full time.
Totally untrue that the porn industry has never had an HIV outbreak. There have been two big ones that I recall actually. The last one happened as recent as 2004 when Darren James, Jessica Dee, Miss Arroyo and Lara Roxx all contracted HIV. The industry was so scared they shut down for a whole month and had 3 separate generations of quarantines. Porn male actors are known to often lead very sexually active lives outside the industry, where as the women are more interested in romantic relationships outside of the porn industry. There is also rampant drug use in the industry which increases the dangers of STDs. There is of course no measure to prevent porn actors from having rampant sex in their own personal lives. And the use of condoms are not even required for the porn industry for the sex in the filming.
And the Japan statistic actually supports my argument. In Japan prostitution is legal giving these "horny male virgins" a sexual outlet. In America for certain kinds of sexually frustrated men, hard core porn will cause them to become more sexually frustrated. Some men who become addicted are addicted b/c of their loneliness and lack of sex in their lives. They become more angry that they are in this position when they look at others partaking in sex b/c they feel like the only ones.
You can see what happened in America by looking up the large jump in sex crime statistics and linking it with cultural changes. First there was a jump in sex crime statistics when the Supreme Court allowed hard core pornography for freedom of expression in magazines and videos. Then another jump happened when hardcore pornography became easily accessible with the spread of the internet. For men that are sickos, access to hardcore porn could cause them to commit sex crimes IMO.
Hardcore pornography is easily accessible to children and some of it like S&M (linking violence with sex and combining it w/ sexual frustration is a great idea isn't it WS) is very damaging to people especially young minds. Just like games like Grand Theft Auto can corrupt certain types of minds, especially children, and make them turn bad; hard core porn, especially S&M porn corrupts minds. Just think you put the idea of going on a killing spree to steal cars to earn accolades in a video game and label it as fun and people are shocked that it corrupts certain minds. Hard core pornography should absolutely not be legal IMO and certainly not w/ prostitution illegal.
Many men who go to prostitutes are either married men or men that can't get any. Therefore the rampant spread of HIV, especially if condoms for intercourse were required by the government, would not happen. In fact it is more dangerous for the women and the men that partake in it to keep it underground. The women are not tested for HIV except where it is legal in Nevada, making the spread of HIV IMO more likely b/c people still pay for sex in other states. It makes no sense to lock up a couple of young friends who went to Atlantic City and got a prostitute for one of their birthdays b/c they hadn't been laid in 5 years. If we are going to criminalize the selling of sex we should go after the Johns in charge, not the buyers. And if hardcore porn is going to stay legal, lets stop the hypocrisies and let the general public pay for it as well. WS, your point makes no sense to me at all.
Edited to Add: Hard core pornography to me is any photos or video depicting people engaging in sex acts; possibly even including kissing if they are indeed naked. Soft-Core is simply naked media depiction of a male or woman with no person to person sexual interaction involved.
Edited by: ToughJ.Riggins
