On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 11:56:36AM -0400, Aaron Guy Davies wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, philipp wrote:
>
> > Of course it is a problem, when children receive porn vids instead of
> > britney spears songs.... And of course it is a problem, if children
> > are able to see sex&violence at the TV. But come on, guys, we all know
> > the solution to this kind of problems isn�t called "V-Chip" or any law
> > that forbids the usage of P2P apps. We need PARENTS who actually
> > deserve this term = parents who take care of their kids. A V-Chip
> > can�t do this. Laws neither.
>
> Check your premises. *Why* is it a problem for kids to have access to
> porn? How do you know our society wouldn't be better off if everybody grew
> up watching porn instead of horror movies? Why do assume parents should
> "protect" their children from sex?
For political reasons. First, totally sexually repressed people make
much better soldiers and cannon fodder than non-sexually repressed
people. Second, puritanicality is necessitated by many different
organized religions, and the reason is to perpetuate the traditional
patriarchical nuclear family, rather than not being married and just
having "nonproductive" sex with one's SO, etc. The reason for the
patriarchical nuclear family is that it first promotes widespread
sexual repression (because the only reason to have sex is for
reproduction, within the framework of the patriarchical nuclear
family), and because the "normal" patriarchical nuclear family is a
very highly authoritarian construct, and therefore helps perpetuate
authoritarian ideologies, and also, especially traditionally,
perpetruates a male-dominated society (you know, the whole husband
goes to work and wife is just a "homemaker" thing...). There are
other reasons to be against port, mainly due to the fact that plain
old girl-posing-for-guys porn is highly misogynistic, but I don't
think that this is why most politicians think "PORN == EVIL EVIL
EVIL".
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They're the teachers who tell me to fight me.
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance,
hypocrisy, brutality, the elite.
All of which are American dreams.
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