Legislating Internet Porn

[Twisp]

Originally Posted by ILG

Yeah but.....soft core porn and what they see on the internet now are two different animals.

There were plenty of hard-core options before the internet as well.

[ILG]

Originally Posted by Twisp

There were plenty of hard-core options before the internet as well.

I think they were much harder to come by.

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by ILG

I think they were much harder to come by.

They weren't in my home and yet every kid in the neighborhood saw them.

[Twisp]

Originally Posted by ILG

I think they were much harder to come by.

I think you want to believe they were much harder to come by, lol. The only difference was you had to go out and actually get it and bring it home, now you don't have to.

I am talking about the hard-core stuff. If we are going to delve into the fetish side of things, yeah, a lot of those were harder to come by.

[ILG]

Originally Posted by Twisp

I think you want to believe they were much harder to come by, lol. The only difference was you had to go out and actually get it and bring it home, now you don't have to.

I am talking about the hard-core stuff. If we are going to delve into the fetish side of things, yeah, a lot of those were harder to come by.

I think that accusation is unwarranted.

Your Dad might have had 10-25 magazines in the basement vs hours of streaming video. I stand by my first thoughts.

[Twisp]

Originally Posted by ILG

I think that accusation is unwarranted.

Your Dad might have had 10-25 magazines in the basement vs hours of streaming video. I stand by my first thoughts.

Accusations? lol, it was merely an observation.

What is the difference between streaming porn and magazines in the basement/under the bed? To a young boy and from a moral standpoint, it doesn't make a lick of difference.

Not only that, but it would be easier to look at a magazine without getting caught than looking at internet porn. No need to worry about clearing your cookies and internet history, no need to worry about tracking programs.

I feel the need to state here that my father did not have any pornographic material in our household. I was exposed to it by accident, and then by purpose after that, lol.

[ILG]

]Accusations? lol, it was merely an observation.

Alright, I misread you.

What is the difference between streaming porn and magazines in the basement/under the bed? To a young boy and from a moral standpoint, it doesn't make a lick of difference.

Not only that, but it would be easier to look at a magazine without getting caught than looking at internet porn. No need to worry about clearing your cookies and internet history, no need to worry about tracking programs.

I feel the need to state here that my father did not have any pornographic material in our household. I was exposed to it by accident, and then by purpose after that, lol.

I think the difference is in the intensity of the porn. That is why there is a difference between soft core and hard core.

[Twisp]

Originally Posted by ILG

Alright, I misread you.



I think the difference is in the intensity of the porn. That is why there is a difference between soft core and hard core.

Yes, but the magazines underneath the bed were hard core also. Hustler, Penthouse, those are hard core magazines that were under a lot of parent's beds. The videos under the bed were hard core as well.

To say that there were mainly soft core pornography before the internet is ridiculous. All that pornographic material has to show to be hard core is to penetration, and there was a lot of that shown well before the internet.

[ILG]

I think it's easy to say we want "smaller government". I do. The government has it's fingers in way too many things. The hard part is finding balance. I think we can go a long ways back before we find balance. On the flip-side, we have some issues now we didn't have before. I look at the porn issues kind of like the drug issue. Marijuana and cocaine are illegal, most drugs need to be prescribed, some are on the store shelves.

We have big pharma messing with drug test results to make sales. We have the insurance industry with it's fingers in it. Now, the government is going to get it's fingers in as well. I am not for that. But, do I want all drugs, including meth to be legalized? As an allegory, how do you think that would affect America?

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by ILG

I think it's easy to say we want "smaller government". I do. The government has it's fingers in way too many things. The hard part is finding balance. I think we can go a long ways back before we find balance. On the flip-side, we have some issues now we didn't have before. I look at the porn issues kind of like the drug issue. Marijuana and cocaine are illegal, most drugs need to be prescribed, some are on the store shelves.

We have big pharma messing with drug test results to make sales. We have the insurance industry with it's fingers in it. Now, the government is going to get it's fingers in as well. I am not for that. But, do I want all drugs, including meth to be legalized? As an allegory, how do you think that would affect America?

Now? Um...we have an entire agency dedicated to it, it is the FDA.