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There’s tons of posts on this topic (and this isn’t my first), but to me they always seem too specific. What I’m asking here is for a definition that fits pornography.
Now, yes, I would consider the Catechism’s “something made primarily to cause sexual desire” to be right on the money. It’s just that sometimes I have trouble interpreting the meaning of most thongs (not too long ago I thought a song was pornographic, but it turned out ot was a fun song about dancing and having a “fun, clean time” or something according to the artist).
And “would you let _____ see it” doesn’t work either, as in most cases I give myself a scrupulous attack over a picture that is displayed in the public by big companies -where everyone will see it.
Oh, and since most countries have laws banning pornography, doesn’t that mean anything legally displayed in public is fine?
And the definition “depicting sexual activity” also doesn’t work? Pictures can be pornographic without this, can’t they? But how can something not depict sexual activity but be pornography? Is this last sentence an example of something suggestive?
Then, what about “full consent” to pornography? If you don’t seek out pornography, but it comes to you when you don’t want it but you momentarily hesitate, is that full consent? When us that moment over?
My biggest problem with pornography is that I don’t have a working definition.
Now, yes, I would consider the Catechism’s “something made primarily to cause sexual desire” to be right on the money. It’s just that sometimes I have trouble interpreting the meaning of most thongs (not too long ago I thought a song was pornographic, but it turned out ot was a fun song about dancing and having a “fun, clean time” or something according to the artist).
And “would you let _____ see it” doesn’t work either, as in most cases I give myself a scrupulous attack over a picture that is displayed in the public by big companies -where everyone will see it.
Oh, and since most countries have laws banning pornography, doesn’t that mean anything legally displayed in public is fine?
And the definition “depicting sexual activity” also doesn’t work? Pictures can be pornographic without this, can’t they? But how can something not depict sexual activity but be pornography? Is this last sentence an example of something suggestive?
Then, what about “full consent” to pornography? If you don’t seek out pornography, but it comes to you when you don’t want it but you momentarily hesitate, is that full consent? When us that moment over?
My biggest problem with pornography is that I don’t have a working definition.