RE: [Leica] The fine line between art and pornography

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

The line is very thin, Sam, because one person's respectful treatment of
the beauty of the human form, or physical contact between loving
individuals, or whatever, is another person's treatment of human beings
like senseless beasts. I'll be John Ashcroft, or Jerry Falwell, would
put a great deal of classical art and writing in the later category,
while you would not.

So we come back to the "I know it when I see it" test - which is to say
it's a very individual thing.

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The line between pornography and art is not thin. I can't even imagine 
what would make you suggest that it is.

Pornography is objectionable because it treats human beings like 
senseless beasts. And because it offers fantasy in place of human 
warmth, kindness, understanding, and communication. It exults the 
mechanics of sex detached from its humanness. It's difficult to believe 
but there are people in relationships that require pornography as an 
integral part of their sex life. The dummy actions on a screen mean more

to them than the person they are with. The detachment of reality from 
sexual intimacy is a very bad thing. Have you noticed that almost all 
serial killers engage in some type of perverted sexual ritual with their

victims? Pornography is infantile and destructive.

Now I wonder who come to its defense?


Sam S



Phong wrote:
what do people object
> in pornography ?  I assume that the objection it is not just
> about unclothed women.  What _is_ the fine line between art and 
> pornography then ?  What is the difference between naked and 
> nude ?  What is art ?  Are the stone carvings in the temples
> at Khajuraho less a work of art than the Gothic cathedrals 
> in medieval Europe ?
> 

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