06 Oct '14 10:58>
Morality aside for the moment, the issue with pornography is that it takes something natural, that being the need for sexual intimacy and fulfils that need, artificially. Its like having no money and peering desirously into the sweet shop window and what happens is you end up merely licking the glass and dreaming about those tasty sweets inside. In other words, its a poor substitute for the real thing.
As an art student (some years ago) we painted/drew many nudes (I always felt some empathy for the models as they were made to pose in large often cold rooms), but there is a difference between art and pornography and that is its motivation. The human form is a beautiful thing, but context is everything. Thus if one visits any museum or art gallery you are likely to see Titian portraying unclad plump ladies in abundance (the fashion was for voluptuousness even then) and yet one does not feel the same sense of desire as when tantalising young women project their mammary glands into cameras as two beacons shining luminously for guys that are lost.
So what is there left to say but that context and presentation are everything in this instance. So many lonely people sucking up images into their minds. It cannot be healthy.
As an art student (some years ago) we painted/drew many nudes (I always felt some empathy for the models as they were made to pose in large often cold rooms), but there is a difference between art and pornography and that is its motivation. The human form is a beautiful thing, but context is everything. Thus if one visits any museum or art gallery you are likely to see Titian portraying unclad plump ladies in abundance (the fashion was for voluptuousness even then) and yet one does not feel the same sense of desire as when tantalising young women project their mammary glands into cameras as two beacons shining luminously for guys that are lost.
So what is there left to say but that context and presentation are everything in this instance. So many lonely people sucking up images into their minds. It cannot be healthy.