Should porn be banned?

Question

It's apparently a fact,according to police reports,that all sex offenders possess pornography in their homes.So why isn't it banned?

Answer 1

It's an unfortunate reality of the freedom we live in. The right to choose to produce smut that negatively influences the lives of those who lack discernment and wisdom.
The same law that would ban such trash, could be used to ban things that are useful. Freedom of speech is just that...our freedom.
Just because something is permitted, doesn't make it the right thing to do. Far to many find profit more powerful than purity and purpose.
Be careful little eyes what you see. Be careful little ears what you hear. Be careful little mouth what you speak. God is watching.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

If it wasnt for porn we would never have had the opportunity to engage in this discussion because there would be no internet.
Porn gave the internet it's street credibility and the 2nd website you visited when you started surfing was a porn one.
Porn is worth $100 billion to the net so how do you ban such industry.
If everbody that posseses pornography become sex offenders over 2 billion people would be in prison.
If ever the internet becomes free. Its porn that will finance it.Besides this is an industry that does not discriminate against women of all shapes, sizes looks and colours.

Answer 4

Your argument would make sense if all people who had porn were sex offenders. And I have never seen a report that said that ALL sex offenders possessed porn.

How would you define porn? Playboy? Penthouse? Hustler? The Victoria's Secret Catalog?) Also, some people do indeed find some benefit in "pornography". Couples (or singles) may use it in the privacy of their home with no detriment at all to society.

If you think this is wrong, apply the same principle to guns. Are all gun owners murderers? Does owning a gun make you more inclined to commit a crime?

Answer 5

Illegal, deviant materials such as child pornography, bestiality, snuff and necrophilia are already illegal, and quite rightly so. Sadly, they are always going to be available over the internet, no matter how much the ISPs and police try and scour them from the web.

But banning ordinary erotic materials is a different proposition altogether, because there is a forum for legitimate sexual and erotic expression of consensual sexual activity.

From neolithic cave art showing images of pregnant women, lingams and yonis carved thousands of years ago, erotic friezes painted on the walls of rooms in Pompeii and bas reliefs carved into the walls of holy shrines in India depicting frenetic sexual activity, the portrayal of healthy human sexuality has always been seen as one of the highest forms of expression.

Even approaching modern history, we have had erotic and nude sculptures such as Rodin's "The Lovers" and Michaelangelo's "David", not to mention the Venus de Milo and any number of tasteful nides and images of scenes from Classical mythology. There are Greek and Latin and Egyptian erotic poems and stories, and even last century boasted some of the most powerful writers in literature, including the legendary French erotic writer Anais Nin.

There is a market for legitimate and healthy erotic expression in the Western world. Among couples seeking to rekindle love, for whatever reason, sometimes the only thing that can be prescribed that has any degree of efficacy at all is porn.

To just dismiss it out of hand as for "losers" is to dismiss the likes of Rodin, of Shakespeare's love sonnets and the poetry of the Romantics, and writers such as Anais Nin.

And that Puritanical attitude's not only an unhealthy fashion: it's an uncool fashion, too.

Answer 6

Because moron all sex offenders also have a bed, knives, a cooker too and that has as much to do with violence as the porn does.


All guys watch porn pretty much or like seeing girls with no clothes on and its the countries that are the most pro porn and open about sex that have the least sexaul violence. You checked that one out mate...


Ever occur to you that maybe the fact is they hated girls due to how they were treated before by girls... They can't form normal reltionships so instead full of hate and ponr is the only outlet... Ie you have it backwards and then some...


Its like saying tossing off makes you blind as tossers where glasses... instead of thinking maybe they are tossing off as due to the glasses they can't get a girl...


How about banning metal music as some who shot up a school were into it... instead of thinking maybe it was not the music but years or bullying and abuse and rejection?

Duh!!!!


Lets see your sex offenders are not normally into regular porn now are they? more like kiddie porn or violent porn and I dont mean mild silly stuff either...

Ie the stuff which is banned...


Whilst regualr porn is just poeople having sex or taking off their clothes... What most do on a regular basis.

Its just the porn is there for those who are lonely...

Like what are they supposed to do?


How about with no outlet nice lonely people bottle it all up getting more and more bitter till they hurt someone?


Then what will you blaim?

Answer 7

Sure thing, after that we can re-criminalize homosexuality.
Then we can ban sex outside of marriage, then make it a crime to not wear a burka, because too many women show skin in public.
If you are so uncomfortable with human sexuality of any kind, maybe you should go live in an Amish community, or some cult up in the mountains, or maybe you could go back to Taliban-era Afghanistan or even Nazi-era Germany and be happily suppressed!

Answer 8

Well, that argument is rather weak.

They also possess milk. Should we ban milk?

Other people possess porn who aren't sex offenders.

Personally, we need to keep porn where it is so even some degree of monitoring and enforcement can take place.

If you drive it underground, you just make things worse for everyone involved. especially when dealing with child explotation. Those people should be right where they can get nailed.

As to the rest of it, I just avoid it.

I know that it can be destructive and fosters more problems with male-female relationships, but better where it can be seen.

Answer 9

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS"
-The Declaration of Independence

Porn makes people happy ;) Therefore, it would be a disservice to the sentiments of the founding fathers for us to ban it. Note that I do not support sex offenders, but a very large percentage of Americans also have porn, and the VAST majority of these people are law-abiding citizens and do not deserve to have their unalienable right to the pursuit of happiness taken away. Besides, I think sex offenders have other, much bigger problems with their mind, and these have a much larger role in their crimes than porn.

Answer 10

It shouldn't be banned, unless it is particularly violent or degrading, but greater efforts should be made to keep it away from minors. I preferred it when porn was more honest and more furtive, instead of now trying to present itself as 'mainstream' and creeping down from the top shelf.

Shame on all the TV channels which present endless 'documentaries' as an excuse to show porn, shame on WH Smith and other booksellers which market Playboy-branded pencil cases to children, and shame on people like Frank Skinner who invite porn stars like Ron Jeremy onto what is supposed to be a mainstream chat show.