WHAT’S RIGHT WITH PORNOGRAPHY?
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
I DON’T AGREE with the idea that pornography is good for society. It is NOT helpful in any way to society, or to the women and men who participate in it. It is not good for the people who watch it. It has a debilitating effect on marriage and on the raising of children, as it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep it from the eyes of innocent young people.
HOWEVER…
…PORNOGRAPHY IS A REALITY FOR THE WORLD AT THIS TIME, 2013, a.d.
Now there is a NEW QUESTION: HOW SHOULD WE EACH REACT TO IT, NOW THAT IT HAS SATURATED THE INTERNET, AND THEREFORE, SATURATED THE MINDS OF MILLIONS? I have a very good answer to this question. Please read on.
AS PHOTOS AND VIDEOS AND AUDIOS OF HUMAN SEXUAL PERFORMANCE ARE VIRTUALLY A CLICK OR TWO AWAY, ONLINE, HOW SHOULD WE EACH REACT TO IT? WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO TREAT IT?
MY SUGGESTION: (you might not immediately go with this idea, but please hear me out)…MY SUGGESTION IS THAT YOU WATCH IT, STUDY IT, AND BEGIN TO TRULY UNDERSTAND THE REAL MOTIVATION OF THE PERFORMERS, THE COMPANIES, THE FILM CREWS AND ALL WHO ARE ASSOCIATED WITH IT. YOU WILL SEE A VERY DIFFERENT VIEW OF PORNOGRAPHY. WHATEVER YOUR CONCLUSIONS ARE ABOUT THIS TYPE OF MEDIA PERFORMANCE, ITS REALITY MEANS THAT EACH OF US NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND IT IF WE ARE NOT TO BE BADLY AFFECTED BY IT. TO WIN AGAINST AN ENEMY, WE NEED TO SINCERELY TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE ENEMY.
While asking myself how should I deal with pornography, I had a very interesting revelation: seven billion humans were born due to the sexual act. And that number is only the number of humans on the Earth now. As the years pass, trillions were born and died. DO YOU RECOGNIZE THIS IS PROBABLY A FACT? Each birth was preceded one or more sexual acts. SO SEX IS FAMILIAR TO BILLIONS OF PEOPLE. What people are objecting to is NOT SEX OR PORNOGRAPHY, they object to its public revelation. People don’t want to see it done broadly, as they want it to remain personal and special. They want to have the privacy between a husband and wife or female and male, and want it NOT to be seen as something dirty and hidden, due to the sometimes-negative emotions associated with it.
Recently, I found interviews done between the women and the camera-men and producers. These interviews focused on the women. The women were dressed nicely in conservative clothing, looking just as acceptable in public as you or me. The interviewer was one of the male performers. He was asking the women one interview at a time about their personal lives, and about how they enjoyed some things on camera more than other things, and how their private lives were affected by their performances, and the interviews were done completely with mutual respect between the woman performers and the man who was the male performer.
As I listened to these interviews I began to recognize what I see as the best way for pornography to go forward on the internet and elsewhere: where there is some evidence that the acts in the performances are VERIFIED to be acting, and not coerced, forced acts, on unwilling participants. Where the acts are truly erotic in the minds of the viewers, and are clearly wanted by the performers! For real! Interviews of the performers AFTER the performances, would truly reduce the anxiety in the minds of viewers that these performances are humane and wanted by all parties.
This is my solution for better-quality pornography, as it is not going to go away on its own any time in the near future. The porno-cat is out of the bag already.
This has been my opinion about this very sensitive subject.
Your Friend,
Jeff Hendrick(727)418-5976