Reply #30: Pornography is demeaning to men and women...

[Selwynn]

But its particular exploitative of woman in many cases. For every one person working in the porn industry who loves it and demands the freed to do anything with his/her body, there are ten people who are trapped in it and living a life of abuse and dispair.

Even if that were not true, not everything that a person can do is something that a person should do. The attitudes encouraged in most pornography are attitudes of exploitation, of casualness and objectivication, it is impersonal, loveless, and alienating. It is yet another thing in society that encouraged sujbect to object rather than subject to subject relationship.

No, it is not true that anyone who watches or participates in pornography is instantly a bad person. But it is true that the industry does more harm to society that good. If does in fact do little good, and a lot of bad and should not be actively supported by men and women of compassion, love and conscience. Taking something that is as relational and interpersonal as sex and morphing it to the heigh of the inpersonal and obectified leads to impersonal and objectified attitudes about women's sexual identity, or gender roles in general.