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caseymoz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 08:08 PM
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329. Pornography is actually easy to define.

Once people are allowed to use the forbidden pornographic terms to define it.

Pornography is text or images (which are created or recorded) that are made specifically to masturbate with. Granted, someone can use a work as pornography, but to be actual pornography, the wanking has to be its specific, primary purpose. It's why Evil Angel isn't known for it's documentary work as well. There's really no confusion about what their work is and what it's for. They its business plan is very well defined.

You wonder why they used to ban movies and books that look mild by today's standards, it was because with a shortage of porn, people would use the least suggestion or flash of leg as their masturbation image. Of course, they wouldn't talk about this, much less write about it.

It's obscenity that's not easy to define. They sound like they're synonymous, but there not. Some people who like pornography will find images of violence to be obscene, whereas other people find all pornography to be obscene. I'd like to say it's an image that traumatizes you.
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