if someone wants to watch pron, teh interwebs is a beautifull place
Well I wouldn’t say beautiful as much as frightening.
This debate is sort of like arguing if it is a good thing that we orbit the sun every 365.25 days, wouldn’t it be better if it was 365 or 367? 371 would be great, we could keep a calendar for as long as we want (the days wouldn’t cycle). Hey how about we get some rocket boosters and push out our orbit a bit. Oh wait, we probably don’t have enough fuel on the plant to do that…
The argument isn’t about if we should or should not have porn, we don’t have that choice. The only choice we have is what type of porn are we going to have, are we going to have one where the actors are treated fairly, not exploited and have safe working conditions, or not. This is partially a consumer choice, and partially a legal and regulatory one. You can enforce contractual and safety laws and focus efforts on child pornography and blocking children getting access. However, if you do attempt complete censorship, it means the whole industry goes black market, completely unregulated and uncontrolled, with even worse negative consequences.
I think the easiest way to combat pornography is better sex-ed for youth, as Bertrand Russell argues:
Every boy is interested in trains. Suppose we told him that an interest in trains is wicked; suppose we kept his eyes bandaged whenever he was in a train or on a railway station; suppose we never allowed the word "train" to be mentioned in his presence and preserved an impenetrable mystery as to the means by which he is transported from one place to another. The result would not be that he would cease to be interested in trains; on the contrary, he would become more interested than ever but would have a morbid sense of sin, because this interest had been represented to him as improper. Every boy of active intelligence could by this means be rendered in a greater or less degree neurasthenic. This is precisely what is done in the matter of sex; but, as sex is more interesting than trains, the results are worse. Almost every adult in a Christian community is more or less diseased nervously as a result of the taboo on sex knowledge when he or she was young. And the sense of sin which is thus artificially implanted is one of the causes of cruelty, timidity, and stupidity in later life. There is no rational ground of any sort or kind in keeping a child ignorant of anything that he may wish to know, whether on sex or on any other matter. And we shall never get a sane population until this fact is recognized in early education, which is impossible so long as the churches are able to control educational politics.
I never knew that Mr Russell had something to say about sex as well! He described here, methinks, the psychology behind the now well-known Streisand effect
Rigil
No, it isn’t.
my xbox beats nookie any given day.
I prefer chocolate.
cappuccino
Ah, the blowing of the horn, the forward jerk, the faster growing puffing, the rocking rhythm, the noise from the coupling…
Ha-ha. ;D Very good Hermes. I spent some minutes trying to do something with this, but, sadly, I lack you’re sense of metaphor!
Rigil
Thanks, glad to bring a smile. 
'Round and around and round and around…
ODM last year had around 400 subscribers for the sex channels which subscribers need to subscribe to as a separate porn package
I need someone to explain to me in little-person words what the problem with that is.
If you trace back the history of this case to its beginnings, the legal issue is that StarSat/ODM commenced broadcasting adult content without first being duly registered with the FPB, which registration is a legal requirement. So it’s not the broadcasting per se that’s the problem, it’s that the broadcaster’s ducks aren’t all in a proper legal row.
Of course, the thing that surely started this whole, er, rumpus is the doubtlessly blustering moral outrage a handful of Calvinistic prudes felt at the thought that someone, somewhere might actually be enjoying a view of naughty, jiggling bits. Those would be the selfsame prudes who sneak downstairs at night and browse the web to check up on what they might be missing…
'Luthon64
SExactly. Looking at the comments on that article really lifts the veil on just how backwards some people still are.
Sure, the prude brigade got lucky on a technicality, but I doubt this would ever have emerged as such a huge problem had they kept their holier-than-thou noses out of it. I have no need for a porn channel in my life but damn, mind your own business!.