Rather than inciting sexual feelings, reading or viewing pornography provides an outlet for these feelings and reduces the need for other outlets. The misguided overprotectiveness of pornography's opponents seeks to deny the individual the right to choose what is beneficial. Pornography has been blamed for ripping couples apart. They call to mind the porn-crazed voyeur who prefers porn to the real thing. The opponents of pornography ignore the couples who are actually drawn together by it.
Some couples view pornography together as a prelude to other things.
Let me decide for myself what I choose to read or view. Heaven forbid that I should seek to choose for someone else. St. Petersburg Times. All rights reserved.