(28-12-2010 03:43 )gazfc Wrote: So in your mind you'd be ok with your children viewing the babechannels/hardcore porn at any age??
Well why not? There's no proof this is harmful, in fact, the evidence shows it is harmless. There are people today living in cultures that don't wear clothes and do indeed have sex in front of their children, their neighbours and their neighbours' children - and none of them believe this is wrong or harmful because, for the thousands of years they've lived like this, they've never seen any harm come from it.
As I was trying to point out before, we only believe what we believe because we don't know any better and, moreover, we're not being given any opportunity to find out the truth. We're being FORCED and ORDERED by OFCOM to believe-in and put-up with their insane censorial bullshit - for which they've not provided any evidence whatsoever to back up their reasons for such censorship. OFCOM simply decided to apply a "cautionary approach" based on their own IGNORANCE of the facts and despite all common sense and real-world evidence to show their beliefs are based on irrational fears and discriminatory bullshit.
Quote:Children should be protected from adult material until they're old enough to understand it properly, it shouldn't be shoved down their throats from an early age just because a small minority of people can't conceive that it may be harmful/unsuitably for children.
No one suggested it should be "shoved down their throats". But the FACT remains that we're born with one purpose in life - to reproduce and perpetuate our species. Sex being the whole purpose in and of life, it is highly unlikely that creatures born to shag will at any point in their lives be harmed by a knowledge of how babies are made.
Moreover, as there is no proof of any real harm, porn should not be banned just because some minority can't conceive it may be harmless/suitable for children.
Porn exists because human societies have decided to cover their bodies 'in shame' and carry out sexual relations in secrecy. Porn exists because there IS a social need for it - if no one wanted it or wanted to make it there would be no market or industry for it. But the fact is, the market and industry is MASSIVE, therefore, there exists a HUGE social need and demand for porn.
All so-called 'moral' arguments against the porn industry and market seem to stem from some bizzare notion of 'human dignity'. Apparently there's no 'dignity' being in the normal and natural naked human state. You have to cover-up, you have to have sex behind closed doors, otherwise they'll come and arrest you for indecent behaviour - that's a rather oxymoronic view of human dignity as we're all apparently so disgusting and indecent that we must hide our bodies and sexual activities to be 'decent' and 'dignified'. This supposed moral dignity makes no sense whatsoever, it is nonsense, it is religious nonsense and, it is what we're all brainwashed to believe from a very young age.
Quote:I wonder aswell how the girls themselves would feel about children watching them, would they be comfortable with it? Would they even do the job if they knew that was happening. Would you yourself be alright been naked in a sexual way innfront of children??
As I pointed out earlier, if you haven't been brought-up to believe sex is 'disgusting', 'indecent', 'obscene' and 'dangerous' then you wouldn't bat an eyelid at having sex in front of your grandmother or grandkids. Why does no other creature on earth show any fear at having sex in full view of the world? There is nothing to fear, there's only an irrational belief that sex (and porn) is something we should fear.
Quote:I see you mention sexual assaults stats been down( wouldn't know about that so I'll take your word for it) but what about teenage pregnancy been up? Could that not be because kids are seeing porn to early? Anorexia also on the increse which is mainly due to teenage girls having the wrong image of beauty been forced upon them which the model/adult industry has a massive part in. Hell I've read in the news before about boys trying to stretch their cocks because theirs wasnt as big as the guys in the porn films they'd seen. Those are the type of kids that need protecting from adult content.
Well there's nothing we can do to protect nutters and idiots from themselves. However, knowledge and education are how most of us choose to protect the 'innocent' from any stupid behaviour arising from their ignorance of the facts.
Quote:In an ideal world no person would need protecting from anything whever that be nudity/violence etc but we don't live in some kind of utopia, we live a world where different people get offended by a variety things. We're lucky we live in a world where people can be protected from unnecessary harm.
I'm afraid we live in a world where people are unnecessarily protected from that which is utterly harmless and, actively encouraged to believe in harmful bullshit which leads to censorship, terrorism, war, torture, child abuse, murder and all the rest of the shite that plagues human society.
Quote:I can't even understand what most of the complaints are about, there's an almost endless amount of ways to see some stronger stuff if that's what you fancy, I could understand if ofcom had banned all nudity but really nothing has changed from before and it's not like the uk is the only country that doesn't allow adult material to be broadcast on unencrypted channels.
The fact there are other ways to see stronger stuff is entirely the point. WHY ban it on TV if we can all find it in the corner shop or on the end of a mouse click? OFCOM have simply created their own little fascist dictatorship so that they can control and extort money from anyone they don't like the look of.