Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/11

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Subject: RE: [Leica] The fine line between art and pornography
From: Tim Atherton <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:43:05 -0700
 
> Pornography is objectionable because it treats human beings like
> senseless beasts. And because it offers fantasy in place of human
> warmth, kindness, understanding, and communication. It exults the
> mechanics of sex detached from its humanness. It's difficult to believe
> but there are people in relationships that require pornography as an
> integral part of their sex life. The dummy actions on a screen mean more
> to them than the person they are with. The detachment of reality from
> sexual intimacy is a very bad thing.

Interestingly almost all your description of pornography could be applied to
a very large amount of the "non-pornographic" programming on N American TV
in one form or another.

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