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Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Pornography is created by us and therefore is a reflection of our sexual desires. It is a creative expression of our sexuality, which is one of our most basic drives. Almost all of us are sexual beings with sexual fantasies, aren't they just pornography of the mind's eye? Are our sexual fantasies degrading to society? I think only the most self loathing would say they were. However, if we try and record them and share them, all of a sudden we are causing the world harm? When you think of it this way, it's a hard jump to make.When people object to pornography, what they are really objecting towards someone else's differing taste in pornography. Otherwise they would have to admit their own fantasies are somehow degrading and negative.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: Yes, it ruins our society

It seems that you claim that what is natural should be given freedom to be expressed, correct? Please notice that many people often have the desire to attack, rape, or kill others as well; ought we to be given freedom to do this as well? Of course not. This is society, we give up our natural state of existing solely for ourselves and adopt laws and reason. That is what separates us from cavemen, and removing this distinction degrades our civilization back to the state where we could not control our desires, and did not have society because of this lack of control.When I object to pornography it is not objecting to other's "tastes", as you put it. I object to the fact that it is our instincts taking over, which naturally causes a breakdown in society.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Pornography will be here as long as sex is here. Perhaps when we stop teaching everyone to be ashamed of their sexuality this will be resolved, but not any time soon I suppose. The demonizing of sexuality has a history almost as old as writing itself. Every strand of DNA in you is programed to make you a sexual creature as a biological imperative. Couple this with the fact that having sex is, in consensus opinion of the weight of human writing, the absolute measure and scale for pleasurable experience in the human condition. It is then easy to conclude why we do it and why we want to revel in it. It feels damn good ,and it is a part of who and what we are. It is only in exception to the norm when sex becomes something cruel or evil and that is why we treat such crimes with extreme intensity, but pornography(which is an arguable term in itself) cannot and does not degrade society or anything else... unless they want to be.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: Yes, it ruins our society

Your argument makes no comment on pornography's effect on society, merely that sex is natural. We all agree that it is natural and also essential, but pornography is not sex, and we cannot get that confused.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Pornography is not "degrading to our society"Pornography is an essential part of modern human existence.Almost every human has sexual desires, those desires come in different shapes and sizes but are essentially the same....Monkey see ,... Monkey want to have sex with.In the animal kingdom this is not a problem, but if you are human, you might find yourself in handcuffs(and not the kinky kind)for exercising your animal desires.So what is a person who has a sexual desire, but no one to exercise it with to do?? They could use their imagination for sexual release because there is no difference, as far as your brain is concerned, between a naked person in front of you in real life, and a naked person in your fantasies. However for some people that can be a lot of work and too time consuming.But fear not ...Pornography... is the answer,.. it is available in many formats for your viewing pleasure to help release those natural human desires.By arguing against pornography, you are essentially arguing against sex itself and without sex, you wouldn't be here reading this !
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: Yes, it ruins our society

And that is where you are wrong. Pornography is not the answer for releasing our sexual desires. It is merely being used as an excuse.You argue that sexuality is natural, and I agree. But, pornography is not natural. Animals do not have pornography. If you argue that it sexuality is natural, and thus pornography is as well, you must back up your claims by proving pornography is natural, which it is not.Either way, is releasing human desires beneficial to our society? As far as I know, your definition would classify rape as a natural desire. Is that not degrading society? Or do you think that rape is a good thing? How about murder? Or theft?
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Pornography is natural, it is a solution to a human problem. Just like beaver dens, or bee hives are also a solution to an animal problem. Are beaver dens and bee hives not natural? You say "Animals do not have pornography", that's because they don't know how to use a printing press. If they could, they would. The issue isn't if releasing human desires is beneficial to our society, but if porno is degrading. Rape is a bad solution to a human problem (sexual desire), not a human desire.Murder and theft's effect on society is a whole other debate,..maybe you should create it. !
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Pornography, Democracy and Freedom of speech are very good friends. Just take a look at the countries where pornography is a crime, you will find dictatorships, totalitarisms and theocratic goverments. In that kind of places you will see a lot of huge crimes against the humans rights. So pornography is not degrading the society, repression is degrading the society.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

The purpose of pornography is to excite the viewer which is why the different genres of pornography (IE:fetish, group, racial, bestiality,etc) exist. Depictions of sexual activities have existed since the beginning of civilization and wasn't considered obscene until the Victorian era. It's not new, so why is it an issue...again.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

This is a tricky subject, to me, I feel that pornography is a healthy fetish (watching others) in which all parties are consenting. Furthermore, it is closely regulated (to prevent the spread of disease) which would be another issue. To me, it is just sex, in an unconvential manner. It is difficult for me to see any problems with it...however...I am also a male. There are arguments out there (aside from religious) that pornography is degrading to women and the industry is as patriarchal in intent as anything else in the world. At the same time, there is an argument (by some feminists)that pornography actually empowers women.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: Yes, it ruins our society

It takes an arrogant feminist to state what is and isn't degrading to a woman, and whether they should have the self-determination to make decisions on their own.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Question: Would you say the same thing about an African American deciding when using the "N" word is degrading?I mean...isn't that the whole point of being a feminist in the first place? To make a social commentary on what is degrading or unfair for women living in a patriarchal society. Just like civil rights activists will monitor what may be degrading toward minorities.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Feminism was originally about female emancipation. To get equal rights for woman. Woman and men can both decide to do porn if that's what floats their boat. It's definitively more degrading to tell a woman that she can't or shouldn't do certain jobs, and that their freewill is less important than a feminist agenda.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Feminists try to change people's perception of women, not what people do. They don't say "you can't make porn, girls, even if you love your job", they're saying the objectification of women is a social problem that we need to address. Because, surprise, most women in the sex industry don't want to be there, and social attitudes to the sexualisation of women mean it's hard for these women to avoid being victimised. I don't necessarily think pornography is in itself degrading, but I think in its current state it allows women to be degraded, and I don't think feminists are obstructing anyone's free will in saying so.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

That's the arrogance I was talking about. A) in presuming they know what is socially best for a woman, and B) presuming that most porn workers don't like what they do. most women in the sex industry don't want to be thereCan you show me any surveys or statistics that give credence to that, specifically porn. I say specifically because sex trade is an umbrella term that includes street whores, whose working conditions are of course unfavourable. Many escorts (male and female) do enjoy their work.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Ok, I see what you are saying...but I still feel like the determination of what is "degrading" to women is a function of determining equal rights. For example, A woman, who does the same work as a man and yet does not share in equal pay...isn't that degrading to women? Though, I can see the fine line that can be crossed in which you point out.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Nothing wrong with pornography if you are mature about it.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: Yes, it ruins our society

If there's nothing wrong with it, it isn't pornography. It is art or it is educational material, or it is something else. The word "pornography" means there is something wrong with it.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

That's because originally it was used as a pejorative. People no longer associate pornography with things inherently bad. They associate it with images of nudity and sex for the purpose of arousing the individual watching it. Nothing wrong with that at all.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

It's a healthy, safe sexual release for both genders, especially for men. Better than sexual assault, right?
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

I mean, its not forced on anyone, so I dont see a problem.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

You'll go blind! After a 100 years or so, so.....
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

no, only because it is a commonly accepted form of entertainment. everyone watches porn (except sean hannity).it makes us less innocent, but is that really degrading? i will admit though that it does turn our interest into stranger and more perverted things, but that just makes life more fun (c'mon people, we all love trolling friends with goatse).
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Pornography isn't degrading! It's created by adults, for adults (or for bored teenagers) as a healthy, sexual outlet.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: It's sexy

Boobs. Big Boobs. Absolutely Ginourmous Tits. Glorious Titties. Enough Said.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: Yes, it ruins our society

In the case of pornography we do in fact have to begin by expanding the argument past sexuality as purely natural. We must also look into matters such as morality and even spirituality much deeper. Let me make this very simple here so that I may express a very general point that aims at the heart of our common humanity, not pointing to any particular religious doctrine or any other pointless argument that the pro side of pornography would offer: If you choose a lifestyle like pornography you are in fact making a pre meditated and conscious CHOICE to engage in an activity that can in fact harm people and in some extreme cases of STD's such as Aids, lead to the death and suffering of other indidviduals. This is a no brainer here. What part of pornography being harmful do you not understand unless you are someone who lives life every day with thoughtless, senseless actions and not even the slightest shread of human dignity and moral sense to your life. I have heard these new age morons talk about sex as being all spiritual and everything and yet have no objections to the interpersonal and even societal effects of things like prostiution and pornography. And even if we could eliminate all the great physcial harms through science being able to eradicate all STD's. Imagine that. No Aids. However, this would not solve the deeper spiritual, emotional, and even all moral complexities that can arise out of such an institution. As humans our goal should be to aspire to a higher level of existence, in body mind and spirit. It is to enhance ourselves both intellectually and spiritually above the desires of the flesh for greater aims. So if you feel the need to fuck everyone that you come in contact with for material exchange like money, perhaps it is you that has the problem and not the rest of society. Dont make this an issue of sexual oppression. It will not work. Your arguments on how supressed society is sexually have become irrelevent and better arguments will come against you both publicy and in the private contemplation brought forth out of your own self reflection. Answer me this. If the point does indeed come down to sexual pleasure than why can it not also include love, compassion and responsibility. Or should anyone feel sorry for those who once had the greatest sex and passion in their marriage and left it for what. hmm. Seems to me this is not really a religious issue after all. Look inside for those of you who view such material and especially those of you who participapte. Love is compassion. Love is responsibility. If you live a life that produces death in spirit and harm to others by spreading disease, tell me in one compelling argument how society could have the one thing to truly make it grow, LOVE.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Pornography was created even earlier than our civilization :) People have been fond of porn since ancient times and still we managed to fly to the moon and to create synthetic genome. BTW, sexual services is the most ancient job of women and nowadays nothing changed. I mean there are lots of girls that are ready to provide anyone with sex services in exchange for money.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Some men who want to remain celibate use pornography as an outlet.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Lemme start by saying, I think i would be more concerned with feminist ideas on pornography than religious. The religious debate is constantly fought on this site and often end in the same results. For someone to say that god says "pornography is an aborration" is meaningless to me and many others because we don't believe in a god. However, I have found there tends to be a two sided debate for feminists on this topic...Some being for and others being against...this is what I would like to be the focus of this debate.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

You realize all pornography does not involve women, right?
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Obviously, I know that...I thought the feminist ideas on pornography would be a more interesting topic because there are 2 schools of thought on pornography in the feminist community. One being that it degrades women, the other that it empowers women.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Maybe it's not the PORN that is corrupting man, but the man corrupting porn. What I mean is, there aught to be a threshold, where they know that something is unhealthy... at that point, if they were looking out for their best interest and the interests of others, s/he would do something about it. Some people cannot control themselves, and that is what I think is wrong with pornography.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Well said. I completely argree with this statement. Very logical and simple
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Why doesn't anyone say something about this rather than voting me down??? If there's something wrong with this, explain it, please.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

It's not clear what you're trying to say. Rephrase.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Finally, thank you. I was simply saying, I don't think pornography is bad, but bad people get ahold of porn and do with it what makes the pornography bad. Sex is natural, we see dogs do it. Recording sex isn't bad, we all have sex, we know what it's like, if people want to show others "Look at this, I am having sex", so be it... If they are having sex with a horse though, that is bad, and it wasn't the porn that corrupted them into believing that sex with a horse is ok... everyone knows that sex with a horse is unnatural... why then record it and sell it? It wasn't the recording of sex that lead porn to bestiality, it was the people that brought porn to that. Same with chronic masturbation, depreciation of sex, etc. The people that should have been controlling themselves, weren't. It's like a reckless driver. It's not the car at fault, it's the driver.(better?)
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: Yes, it ruins our society

Why is sex with horses bad?"if people want to show others "Look at this, I am having sex""But they don't. They need to pay the bills, need to have all the trinkets they're told they need by the media as per the capitalist ideal and have other people say Look at this, they're having sex".Pornography is a business that commoditizes sex. Good or bad, it's happening and it's detrimental to society as it currently stands (it will change, no doubt).
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

What do you think about soft-core porn? Is that degrading society?What about 2girls1cup? There are things that are acceptable as art, and then there are things that are... not. F'ing horses, eating sht, tearing your sshole open to post on the internet... those have nothing to do with love... which sex is usually associated with. If you're watching soft-core, you can see a sort of passion... kissing and so on, foreplay, it's all there and acted out... sex is there as well, though not as graphic. The usual run-of-the-mill porn though, lacks the passion, and it harder to tell, mainly because the people screwing are not good actors. It's like a Chick-Flick vs. Action film. One, there are complex social problems, the other is just explosions and what not. Hardcore porn and everything after that is there for the people who have grown tired of the rest of the porn, and out of their lack of control for their sexual appetite and impulse, have moved onto something that would actually arouse them. Just like a cigarette, if you control yourself, you won't need another one... if you cannot, maybe you need something different all together... enter the gateway drug.My point still stands. The problems that we have in society stem from mass lack of self control.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

A healthy little pussy never hurt anyone.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

"Real" mammalian protrusions are too soft to hurt anyone. Silicone protrusions on the other hand can be harmful.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

Without porn nerds would go on psycho killing sprees :)
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

No, ugly porn stars are degrading our society.
Debate: Is Pornography degrading to our society?
Side: No, it is a healthy fetish

i think pornography is safe and i think that you dont need to be 18 at least 10 because who actually w8s they just go and enter and jacking off is perfectly fine man
Debate: Is porn harmful?
Side: Yes, but its a guilty pleasure

Behind the luster of tempting spotlights and thick bundles of flowing money that the porn industry offers, darkness lies behind it.The majority of porn stars are uneducated people who falls prey at the idea of easy money and easy pleasure. Yet, they fail to comprehend that it will demote their worth as a human. Everyday, they are treated as objects and discriminated upon. Their sense of selfworth gradually degrades to the point that they end up using drugs as an escapism from their reality.And that does not include the everyday harassment and violence in their studios
Debate: Is porn harmful?
Side: No, it heals and gives life

That is your point of view. most of them are happy, simply easy money..
Debate: Is porn harmful?
Side: Yes, but its a guilty pleasure

Read the articles provided on the descriptionPorn stars do not live a happy life. Instead, they doubt their own worth as a human
Debate: Is porn harmful?
Side: No, it heals and gives life

Author of the first one also said that her Herpes was cured by praying.... I'm not fan of religious freaks as sources of relevant information.Most of them do live happy lifes and enjoy their job. They are exhibitionists.
Debate: Is porn harmful?
Side: No, it heals and gives life

As a religos person myself, I would like to say that not all of us are like that. I too have questions about the reliability of someone saying that they are cured of herpes. It is probably just in a dormant phase, which is typical of herpes.
Debate: Is porn harmful?
Side: Yes, but its a guilty pleasure

No man, he never read the article. He just browsed the comments.THe author never mentioned any miracle happening to her
Debate: Is porn harmful?
Side: Yes, but its a guilty pleasure

Thankyou for proving that you never read the article.The author never said anything about that. What you read instead was the comment section, did you?
Debate: Is porn harmful?
Side: No, it heals and gives life

That's in no way every porn star. Their are some porn stars, and ex porn stars, that rejoice on the life they live or used to live.Take Jennifer Corrales, or as she used to be known Jenna Haze. She claimed to have loved the industry and still stays in touch with the people she knew while working in it.As a perfect counter to that you can look at Marina Ann Hantzis or as she used to be known, Sasha Grey. She left the industry to become a mainstream actress and looks back on the business with regret, and would prefer to not talk about it.Those two women tell me one thing about the industry. The people in it choose to be there, and can get feelings about it any way they feel, they can choose to either own up to it or deny it.
Debate: Is porn harmful?
Side: Yes, but its a guilty pleasure

Some people likes their job no matter how filthy and offensive. But do you think that they are good examples for our next generation?The porn industry isnt a place of teas and cakes. Rather, it is where you turn yourself into a toy and will always be look down upon. You may enjoy it, but dont think that you will be mourned.