I get where she's coming from but the whole thing seems more than a little bit overboard. Of course, any opinion of hers should have been thrown out the moment she said: "Sometimes the freedoms of like-minded, decent people have to be curtailed because of a few others."
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There's similar ideas within feminist movements who see porn as an evil toward women which should be censored. The fact remains that participation in porn, however violent, is voluntary, the women generally get paid far more, and (most importantly) you don't treat the cause by censoring such things. Any form of media can have a dark side, but it's not the job of legislature to ban freedoms on the basis of a few people demented enough to commit heinous acts that mirror them. I'd imagine that the dude in question was messed up enough that if it wasn't porn, he would've found a destructive outlet somewhere else.
Such measures would be applying band-aids to severed limbs, not seeing the problem for what it truly is but simply banning the symptoms rather than working toward true awareness and change....and stripping away our freedoms in the process.
I'm not a fan of the idea that you can get in trouble for simply watching something; not even participated, just watching. I think it's often a very dangerous way to go about limiting things. And while I understand it being that way for certain things, like child pornography, I don't think it should be expanded.
And yes, as said above, the fact is that it is voluntary, and if people are forcing women to be in it by trafficking them, then that's a problem with trafficking and not the pornography.
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I am not a porn person...but this type of shit (the infringement of freedoms) pisses me off. If some schmoe likes to bate to a bound chick getting hit with a switch, who cares. The lady gets paid for it, the shcmoe gets his jollies, and no one gets hurt...well...sort of.
"Under the new law, pornographic material which depicts necrophilia, bestiality or violence which is life threatening or likely to result in serious injury to the anus, breasts or genitals is outlawed."
This made you cry, right?
It is bullshit though, the people involved are adults and willingly doing it, as noted.
Things like violent sex acts or Beastiality and necrophilia have been happening for ages. This will continue in the present and future...that's humanity we have live with it....
I'm a very supportive of keeping these taboos secluded and away from the general public. It should be available for people who are interested or find it erotic. I'm not a very big fan of torture or even harming an indivual to the extreme. There has to be a limit and a reasonable amount of pleasure for this kind of stuff. Those that cross the line should face the law.
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Not to split hairs...but there could be occasions that people whom consent others to harm them in extreme violent ways may not be all there in the head.
For instance taking advantage of a sick mental patient. So we have to keep in mind that the people who do allow themselves could be either brainwash or mentally sick. Those that allow to harm themselves and have a reasonable brain (as well as common sense)....have fun.
Putting in other words. Play it safe....so you can play again later.
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There's no logical reason to be against it. If someone wants to die, would you rather have them go painless and peacefully or jump off a 5 story buidling onto the sidewalk, like some guy did in San Francisco yesterday?
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No...probably far from it. I was satirizing the fact that you get shit( ) for being German. I read you complaining about it in the OTF about a week ago.
As I mention earlier there has to be a limit as well as a level of responsibility when it comes to the actions.
There should be arbitration...like in Boxing for example...you can beat your opponent so much till the referee says...okay, that's enough...you have a career ahead of yourself. Don't throw it all away in just one fight.
Catching my drift?
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May 9th, 2008 10:25 PM
) for being German. I read you complaining about it in the OTF about a week ago.
