The Pornography Thread
And taking acts so personal (the physical acts of sex) and making them public just seems wrong. — anonymous66
Privacy is meant to be provided and assured by society, not dictated, meaning it is up to us what to keep personal and what to make public.
And doesn't the porn industry just promote the idea that people are merely a means to an end? — anonymous66
I argue that the porn industry's actions and/or intentions don't define pornography, that you confuse pornography with sexual objectification and that the porn industry doesn't really promote such sexual objectification as much as it reinforces it. The last may seem just a pointless argument about semantics but what I mean is that demand makes porn as objectifying as it is, it's not an inherent trait of porn itself.
You talk about porn as seeming wrong to you. I ask you: why is that? My guess is that you either don't understand its purpose, thinking any sexual activity should be reserved for procreation or that, at the opposite pole, you view sex as more than baby-making, like as an expression of passion and most porn out there fails to support that view, being as dispassionate as it is, and so becomes revolting.