The UK Porn Debate
The subject of porn has been getting a lot of attention in the UK for quite some time.
This piece ran in The Guardian on Saturday.
What’s especially troubling is the way in which porn has so deeply infected culture that its youth are actively watching porn and acting out in school.
The question the author wrestles with is this:
Do the rest of us have to live in this grossly objectifying and demeaning culture just because some people want access to porn?
Great question. Porn should not be the default setting of ours, or any society. And yet, that’s what it has come to — with further expansion seeming to be on the horizon.
The author then provides this interesting bit highlighting a strange development in the UK pertaining to what is permitted on radio, on television and in advertising:
I have to admit I’m fast losing my sense of humour. It was unacceptable for the BBC to play the No 2 single “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” in its entirety during the chart countdown despite it being a legitimate, if childish, way for those who didn’t venerate Lady Thatcher to have their voices heard, yet it’s OK to advertise a soft drink by naming it after slang for female genitalia? Where was the Advertising Standards Authority when that one was signed off?
Standards? Well, perhaps those are really more like suggestions.
And then there is this gem that the author provides:
We are battling a tsunami of smut that, far from being postmodern, clever or even sexy, is conceived to appeal to our basest instincts, stereotyping men as brainless Neanderthals and women as legitimate prey. Men should be up in arms about the insult to their intelligence and to the women they love.
Agreed. Men should be offended by what porn is saying about them as men. Porn is an insult to our intelligence, to say nothing of the damage it does to our souls.
Intentional Warriors 
One Response to “The UK Porn Debate”
“Porn is an insult to our intelligence, to say nothing of the damage it does to our souls.” And this is the Simple truth.
Some youth today don’t care, they flaunt it everywhere you, twitter, display pictures.. It’s just pitiful.
I’ld like to ask the question, Where did we go wrong? But I think we all know better. God help us all..