I'm not necessarily pro-porn (though I do watch it from time-to-time), but I will say this:
If any of the Greco-Roman societies back wayyyyyyy before our times had a method to record their endeavors via film, they would have no doubt preserved many of their orgiastic exploits. As to whether they would intellectualize it and broadcast it to the rest of society, who knows? I'm not saying Cog is wrong, per se, but DD also had a point about some of the work being created for that purpose. Artistic purity, sometimes, is a blanket concept that masks some of our basest impulses (though as a writer I can honestly say that there are moments in time where it does actually exist, especially when it comes to our line of work. No doubt anybody else in the thread shares a similar perspective).
It's morally reprehensible, sure, but I hold porn in the same regard as somebody willing to imbibe narcotics: If you wanna **** with your body, it is YOUR right to do so. Nobody should stop you from getting shafted by Joe Blow in an adult movie because it is your choice. Horrible, HORRIBLE exceptions to this do exist (i.e. child slave rings and what not) but I am talking about the people who, while down-and-out, have the ability to make a choice. Just because these down-and-out people make the decisions to sell their body doesn't necessarily make them disgusting creatures, either. It's their choice, it's their lifestyle---if it screws them over in the long run, so be it. They took a gamble.
That's my two cents.
Smooth Criminal
