Is it because there’s some reason why sexuality uniquely should be kept private? But why should it be acceptable for our media to explore all kinds of other aspects of our lives in intimate detail but somehow must stop short of getting deeply into a sexual space?
Is your objection based on the idea that the conditions under which people are brought in to participate in the production of much of today’s pornography are exploitive or coercive? If so, would you approve if the conditions of such employment were fair and if the participation were freely chosen? Or do you maintain that no pornography could be produced if fairness and freedom of choice were protected? Is it your belief that in a healthy society, for no one would it be an acceptable and wise choice to participate in the creation of the pornography (issues of consumption aside)?
If you disapprove of all explicitly sexual, deliberately arousing media – if you disapprove of all pornography—is it because you think that there’s something fundamentally wrong, or base, or sinful, or dirty about sexuality?
This certainly has been a widespread attitude in the history of our civilization. But what is the justification for it?
Sexuality is not only necessary for the transmission of life, but sexual passion is one of the most powerful avenues along which people experience a gladness to be alive.
If “Therefore choose life” is supposed to be the injunction from the God of the Bible, why would the arousal of sexual desire be contrary to our notion of the sacred in human life?
Indeed there are some religious traditions –including some threads in the Judeo-Christian line—in which sexuality is seen as connected with the sacred.
But, it might be objected, that sacred sexuality –generally, sexual love within a committed marriage relationship—is an entirely different thing from becoming aroused by pornography.
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