2008 Woodie Awards
Should the government restrict porn? No
The First Amendment protects porn
Carl Buchanan is a junior from Mayfield, Ky.
Issue date: 11/21/08 Section: Opinion
Taking a position to argue against pornography seems simple enough, but when someone is asked to defend this form of entertainment, you might find it is not so easy.
Personally I'd rather not have a friend call me 30 years from now to tell me he saw my daughter on the latest "Girls Gone Wild" Video. But then again, if my daughter were ever asked to be the centerfold in an issue of Playboy, I'd appreciate the gesture and compliment my daughter's beauty.
There is a fine line between what people consider pornography and artistic nudes. I tend to draw the line when midgets and goats get involved. Then again, whatever floats your boat is cool with me.
My point here is that the Internet has taken porn to an entirely new level.
My mother taught me about sex at a young age because it is biological and she didn't want me thinking it was anything too amazing or naughty. And it worked.
Pornography never really held a special or interesting position in my life. It was just something else that some people were interested in, until I saw pterodactyl porn.
I know it's hard to explain, but I was impressed that someone could actually be "turned on" by something such as this. So I investigated the weirdest and funniest types of fetishes I could find and there are so many different things on the Internet nowadays it would have taken me a lifetime to find them all.
Plus, some of the things such as masochists, are a little too intense for me.
But I would never say ban that from the Internet. I would never argue that it is not their right to do or say the things that they are entitled as human beings to say.
Much like the comedy shows and comedians who say and joke on the vilest of things without restraint or censorship, the people in these videos and pictures have every right to do what they are doing, assuming it is within the legal restraints put in place by our government.
One of the most recent phenomena to be spread among my peers is the video "Two Girls, One Cup."
After some friends showed me this video I couldn't bring myself to kiss my girlfriend for a few days, much less eat any chocolate ice cream for the next year. If that is what those two girls want to do, however, that is what those two girls want to do.
Due to the First Amendment, they have every right to post that video on their personal Web site and charge money for it. If that is how a woman has to pay her bills and take care of her fatherless babies, who are we to say no?
Sure, she could get a better job and make something of her life, but maybe she doesn't want to and is fine making $100 an hour. I don't even make that much.
Some people pay for college by doing these things and it is their human given right.
The body is a temple and a beautiful one at that.
However the inhabitant uses that body is his or her choice, not mine, not yours. Besides, nobody said you have to watch it.
Personally I'd rather not have a friend call me 30 years from now to tell me he saw my daughter on the latest "Girls Gone Wild" Video. But then again, if my daughter were ever asked to be the centerfold in an issue of Playboy, I'd appreciate the gesture and compliment my daughter's beauty.
There is a fine line between what people consider pornography and artistic nudes. I tend to draw the line when midgets and goats get involved. Then again, whatever floats your boat is cool with me.
My point here is that the Internet has taken porn to an entirely new level.
My mother taught me about sex at a young age because it is biological and she didn't want me thinking it was anything too amazing or naughty. And it worked.
Pornography never really held a special or interesting position in my life. It was just something else that some people were interested in, until I saw pterodactyl porn.
I know it's hard to explain, but I was impressed that someone could actually be "turned on" by something such as this. So I investigated the weirdest and funniest types of fetishes I could find and there are so many different things on the Internet nowadays it would have taken me a lifetime to find them all.
Plus, some of the things such as masochists, are a little too intense for me.
But I would never say ban that from the Internet. I would never argue that it is not their right to do or say the things that they are entitled as human beings to say.
Much like the comedy shows and comedians who say and joke on the vilest of things without restraint or censorship, the people in these videos and pictures have every right to do what they are doing, assuming it is within the legal restraints put in place by our government.
One of the most recent phenomena to be spread among my peers is the video "Two Girls, One Cup."
After some friends showed me this video I couldn't bring myself to kiss my girlfriend for a few days, much less eat any chocolate ice cream for the next year. If that is what those two girls want to do, however, that is what those two girls want to do.
Due to the First Amendment, they have every right to post that video on their personal Web site and charge money for it. If that is how a woman has to pay her bills and take care of her fatherless babies, who are we to say no?
Sure, she could get a better job and make something of her life, but maybe she doesn't want to and is fine making $100 an hour. I don't even make that much.
Some people pay for college by doing these things and it is their human given right.
The body is a temple and a beautiful one at that.
However the inhabitant uses that body is his or her choice, not mine, not yours. Besides, nobody said you have to watch it.
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Steve
posted 11/21/08 @ 10:46 AM CST
Why are culture war issues the only thing that is every in the opinion section? Right now the most pressing issues are if we should leave Iraq or not, should we put more soldiers in Afghanistan, should be bail out the auto industry, do economic stimulus packages work, should health care be provided by the government or not, how do we fix the education system, etc. (Continued…)
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