From: "Greg Wooledge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Because porn promotes sexual desire.
>And why is that bad?
>> Kids have more than enough of
>> that without us giving them pornography.
>Kids have no sexual desire to speak of.
I must tender a correction to that.
Pre-pubescent children are immensely sexual.
The only difference is that, in the absence of gender-differentiating
hormones, they don't tend to focus their sexuality on skin-skin, especially
genital-genital contact.
Getting born is the one of the biggest fucks of one's whole life - getting
it on with Mom in a pretty big way.
If anyone has ever seen a birthing mother in action, they would recognise
the similarity between birthing dynamics and those of sex and orgasm.
Kids with all their boundless energy are getting it on with everyone and
everything, it's just that they're not specifically using their cocks and
cunts to do so. Perhaps that's why some people find kids hard to handle.
>Teenagers are not kids. Please
>define the age range you're talking about.
Part of puberty and its changes is the way one's sexuality starts to focus
on the genitals, and gives rise to the powerful desire to unite oneself with
others *largely via the genitals*.
Perhaps it's beneficial for children to see erotic material virtually from
day one.
Such as in Aldous Huxley's visionary novel Brave New World.
Maybe kids should be taught the tender dynamics of erotic interaction in
school, even as early as kindergarten.
"Oh, Johnny, try to be more gentle with Mary's clitoris... it's a really
sensitive part of her - take a breath, and stroke it gently with your
tongue, tease it and kiss it.... ahh, that's better, Johnny".
So much of society's ills can be attributed to the tensions of sexual
repression.
As for porn, a discinction must be drawn between porn and erotica.
Erotica is material that elicits sexual feelings.
Porn is (usually erotic) material which communicates untruthful messages and
thus disempowers a sector of society, and typecasts it into an undignified
or powerless role.
Using that definition, much or most of mainstream media is pornographic.
Kids are going to be exposed to porn at some stage. As the river flows down
to the sea.
IMO, the right approach to take is openness and guidance.
Teach the kids to discriminate between wholesome erotica and pornographic
erotica.
Teach them to discriminate between wholesome media and pornographic media.
Teach them that they are powerful beings with their own capacity to
discriminate, choose, experience, learn and grow.
David
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