10-04-2015, 12:30 PM
Are you talking about producing porn, consuming porn, or both?
As far as producing porn goes, I see nothing amoral about it. I think sex work in general needs to be more accepted by mainstream society, to allow more legal protections to sex workers and allow less predatory practices. Thinking specifically about prostitution, a prostitute wouldn't need a pimp if she could call a police officer to protect her from a thieving/abusive john. This is why I wouldn't dictate morality based on current laws, either.
So, in the context that it is now, I think the way much porn is produced is amoral. There is a lot of exploitation going on in the industry. I don't think the act itself is amoral, but the way it is being enacted right now (on the whole) is less than compassionate.
As far as consuming porn goes, I don't think that's amoral at heart, either. The problem with porn today is that it is addictive. It's like consuming heroin - not amoral at heart, but the more you do it leads to doing it more often, and it can begin to affect your life negatively. It's up to one to decide for themselves if their vices are lowering their quality of life, or causing them to engage in acts that lean toward the STS side of the spectrum.
I think a lot of imbalance in our current generation of the male/female dichotomy is based on porn. As humans we have to accept that consumption of certain medias furthers the solidification of those pathways in our brains. So if one is watching porn that has abusive tendencies, one absorbs those on some level, especially because you go back to that realm of pleasure for enjoyment. I therefore think the opposite is true: If one is watching pornography that is based on green-ray++ sex (doubtful but possible), I think it can help encourage those pathways (those of the unblocked red-orange-yellow instead of energizing the red-orange-yellow blockages)
As far as producing porn goes, I see nothing amoral about it. I think sex work in general needs to be more accepted by mainstream society, to allow more legal protections to sex workers and allow less predatory practices. Thinking specifically about prostitution, a prostitute wouldn't need a pimp if she could call a police officer to protect her from a thieving/abusive john. This is why I wouldn't dictate morality based on current laws, either.
So, in the context that it is now, I think the way much porn is produced is amoral. There is a lot of exploitation going on in the industry. I don't think the act itself is amoral, but the way it is being enacted right now (on the whole) is less than compassionate.
As far as consuming porn goes, I don't think that's amoral at heart, either. The problem with porn today is that it is addictive. It's like consuming heroin - not amoral at heart, but the more you do it leads to doing it more often, and it can begin to affect your life negatively. It's up to one to decide for themselves if their vices are lowering their quality of life, or causing them to engage in acts that lean toward the STS side of the spectrum.
I think a lot of imbalance in our current generation of the male/female dichotomy is based on porn. As humans we have to accept that consumption of certain medias furthers the solidification of those pathways in our brains. So if one is watching porn that has abusive tendencies, one absorbs those on some level, especially because you go back to that realm of pleasure for enjoyment. I therefore think the opposite is true: If one is watching pornography that is based on green-ray++ sex (doubtful but possible), I think it can help encourage those pathways (those of the unblocked red-orange-yellow instead of energizing the red-orange-yellow blockages)
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