Wonderland or Not

For the pur­pose of future posts, and con­si­de­ring the email I recei­ved follo­wing the posts “Gang Rape Scene — Ero­tic Fan­tasy?”, “Sexism Where Does it Begin”, and “The Creepy Fee­ling I Get –Sui­cide Girls Redux”, I want to make a dis­tinc­tion bet­ween Ero­tica and Por­no­graphy, the way I see it.

There is always some argu­ment with this, be it legal or moral, and some feel there is no dis­tinc­tion but for my pur­pose here this defi­ni­tion by Dr. Diana Rus­sell will do.

“Ero­tica refers to sexually sug­ges­tive or arou­sing mate­rial that is free of sexism, racism, and homopho­bia, and res­pect­ful of all human beings and ani­mals por­tra­yed. This defi­ni­tion takes into account that humans are not the only sub­ject mat­ter of ero­tica. For exam­ple, I remem­ber seeing a short award-winning ero­tic movie depic­ting the pee­ling of an orange. The sha­pes and colo­ring of flo­wers or hills can make them appear ero­tic. Many peo­ple find Geor­gia O’Keeffe’s pain­tings ero­tic. But ero­tica can also inc­lude overtly or expli­citly sexual images.”

Hence, I define por­no­graphy as mate­rial that com­bi­nes sex and/or the expo­sure of geni­tals with abuse or degra­da­tion in a man­ner that appears to endorse, con­done, or encou­rage such behavior.

This will be when I am refe­rring to the por­tra­yal itself. Remem­be­ring that for me it is con­trol and his­tory of the industry which bothers me more than anything except the moral harm it does to very young boys and girls.

It is about con­se­quen­ces, and there are con­se­quen­ces which I would like to post on over then next few weeks without having anyone think I am making a judg­ment regar­ding their behavior.

There are just a few things I’d like you to con­si­der in regard to por­no­graphy wha­te­ver side of the issue you are on.

This was a pre­lude. I’ll link to this in my future posts but I feel it is best to be short and sweet so diges­ting can take place slowly. No need for gluttony.

I will be run­ning a 5K in the mor­ning and spen­ding the eve­ning here with friends watching Geor­ge­town Win their bas­ket­ball game. I may or may not be around depen­ding on how boring the game is.

Notes on this theme. It is some kind of theme still in deve­lop­ment really meant for a group blog so it is a little strange so if you find things quirky let me know. You can only see the com­ment count when you go to comment.

I will be pla­ying with this until I find something I feel com­for­ta­ble with. That was the only good thing about blogs­pot I had jac­ked that theme and it was me.

Under the cut something to make you laugh. It does make me glad that I am from almost from Aus­tra­lia.
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