Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Porn, the entry drug?

Hostel made #1 movie (which in January certainly does not make it an artistic triumph). Interestingly it puts forward the idea that the next step beyond porn and fetish sex is violence. Recognizing that the movie does not intend in the first place to put forward a viewpoint but rather to 'entertain' with wanton sex and violence. Recognizing also that this very post will drive LAGuy nuts. It is noteworthy that the 'message' of this film is consistent with what theocentrists have been saying against porn--it objectifies people and that the nth degree of that objectification is violence and death.

LAGuy notes: Theocentrists should stick to defending their wacky, unproven supernatural theories rather than claim that recognizing people (especially men) are physically attracted to others ends up in violence and death. The nth degree of sexual objectification, oh, almost 100% of the time, is ejaculation. (I admit I'm not being fair to theocentrists, or anti-porn activists in general, by ascribing AnnArborGuy's beliefs to them, but we'll deal with that some other time.)

Meanwhile, the body count of religion, from those who explicitly explain their objectives and obsessions, is hundreds of millions, with no end in sight. And the award for the most dangerous societies of all, religious or otherwise, goes to those (e.g., Soviet Union, Nazi Germany) where the leaders were extremely concerned with wiping out degeneracy and keeping things clean.

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