When will the public wise up to this

Problem is it must work because people keep doing it

“There is more illegal sexual activity in the bible, which is awash in rape by invading armies, marriage of women not old enough to consent (or who simply don’t consent), sexual harssment of servants, genuine legally binding enslavement of women, polygamy and incest, than there is in a typical hardcore pornography movie, magazine or website.”

Watch out now! If you can’t bend your brain through enough complicated apologetics to white wash this kind of thing someone might accuse you of having a painfully limited understanding of theology.

The vast majority of American adults, and a good share of older American teenagers, have engaged in activity well within the range of soft core pornography personally, and probably a majority have engaged in activities shown in some hard core porn. Many who haven’t will eventually.

Yet, they show up to their jobs, raise their children, attend church, vote, help elderly neighbors shovel snow, and pay their mortgages anyway. Indeed, those who don’t have sex (indeed, who don’t have sex with multiple partners over a lifetime) are more deviant compared to American social norms, than those who do.

There is more illegal sexual activity in the bible, which is awash in rape by invading armies, marriage of women not old enough to consent (or who simply don’t consent), sexual harssment of servants, genuine legally binding enslavement of women, polygamy and incest, than there is in a typical hardcore pornography movie, magazine or website.

Even for those who don’t, almost nothing in porn (apart from child porn and rape/incest porn) is illegal if done consentually and without compensation, and there are places (Nevada) and circumstances (theatrical performances even outside prostitution legal parts of Nevada) in the U.S. where even the compensation part is legal.

In contrast, our society makes only the most trivial efforts to prevent the depiction of violence. Yet, the percentage of Americans who have ever used a firearm, explosive or bladed weapon in anger is far smaller, even most police and military personnel never personally kill or seriously wound someone in their entirely career, and almost all violence by anyone other than a solider or a cop is illegal. Hell, even a typical movie car chase is enough to send the average person to stint in jail.

Rationalization for something unpleasant?

I don’t find Hudgens or Tisdale unpleasant. I don’t find the pictures unpleasant. I don’t find ‘lesbian’ unpleasant. What I find unpleasant is that people make such a big deal out of it, and I didn’t rationalize for that.