Posted by Ex on February 01, 2002 at 02:35:16:
In Reply to: There is always a choice. posted by Emily on February 01, 2002 at 01:14:44:
: : People are ALWAYS forced into a job they don't really want to do, but have the skills for. : Just like you don't understand this objection to pornography, i don't understand the argument that women have the choice to do do what they want.
: Always? Careful with that word, dude. Ok, so, when someone goes to a fast food place and fills out the job application and drives themselves to the interview, they didn't have a choice to do those things? Of course they did. They could not have a job. They could go to school. They could live with their mom forever. There is ALWAYS a choice. Some choices may not be too pleasant, but we are never, EVER forced to do anything. Free will. I could go ram my car into a tree right now if I wanted. I have that choice. I could quit my job and move on the streets. It's my choice. I may not WANT to do some of those things, but not wanting to do something and not having the choice to are COMPLETELY different.
i do not have the choice of becoming the next American President, so i aim for something lower... and the cycle continues. sure, people in the porn industry have a choice whether or not to be in that business, but due to financial difficulties and the like, they feel within their own minds that they're forced to be there. perhaps 'forced' isn't the right word, but they're definitely 'pressured' into being there. anyway, my point is that most people in the porn industry are there for financial reasons, and given the option, would probably choose any other job offering the same salary.
: : As i said in another post, it's stuffed down our throats, it's society that really doesn't have a choice in this case.
: LOL!!! How in the world is it stuffed down our throats?!?!?!?! Last I checked, you have to be 18, have a driver's license, credit card, blah blah blah, to obtain it. I know know what was going on down there in the Carolinas, Ex.
of course it is. turn on the tv anytime late at night and you'll see what i mean (sometimes not strictly porn, but it derives from it). open up your email and read your messages, there are ads everywhere... popups on our browsers, etc. 'free sample images', etc. you don't need much imagination to see porn through many ads either. our minds are weak, our greed makes us want more and more, and the porn industry is satisfying this greed. depending on your view, this can be good or bad.... but for me it's bad. if the porn industry stuck to themselves i'd have no problem with them, but they don't and they're polluting innocent minds.
: : In regard to men, that too i disagree with, but the reason you never hear about this is because we men are never affected by male porn, so it will not cheapen anything for us in the way i suggested above.
: There are men in regular porn, humping the girls.
i look upon women with beauty, i look upon men as men, so seeing something beautiful transformed into ugliness (not physical) is much more devastating than seeing a man transformed. i think it's purely the fact that men take no interest in men so feel they can do what they feel like.