With all the anti-pornography talk, can we have a sex positive thread?

[TreasonousBastard]

93. A couple of small points...

before I have to run off for work.

Rape is a crime of violence

Just like horsewhipping, shooting, beating to a bloody pulp... It's violence and whole canons of law deal with violence, sexual and otherwise. Gallons of ink and billions of electrons have been spent trying to explain how rape is somehow special, but it is different from other forms of violence as lynching is to beating with a lead pipe and not a political golf ball to be hit for distance.

Do depictions of violence create violent offenders?

We don't know. We've depicted murder in books, songs, plays, movies, TV, and now video games since the species became literate and nobody has yet proven a solid link. We still have boxing matches on HBO and phony wrestling matches on TNT but do either promote random violence? Depicting rape in a porn video most likely has the same effect as depicting murder in a Tarantino movie, but we really don't know. At any rate, the calls for censoring Tarantino movies are not nearly as loud as the calls for censoring rape porn, so something else might be at play.

Whassup with sex?

Sex has been relegated to the same status as taking a dump. We all do it but can't talk about it. In the case of taking a dump, it's smelly and revolting with little good to say about it other than waste removal, but what's the problem with sex?

Leaving aside the small fact that most of us have actually taken dumps that were more pleasurable than some of the sex we've had, we all freely talk about the meals, the clothes, the drinking and dancing... that lead up to either activity. But not the activity itself.

This has not been true in all cultures. At times, educating young people (usually young men, unfortunately) in proper sexual performance was the norm. Why not teach sex ed as really sex ed? Not just warnings about diseases and pregnancy by embarrassed teachers but actual field work-- like they do in drivers ed? Another income stream for hookers and porn stars?

Oh, the horror! But we spend all this time and money trying to stop kids (and adults, too, btw) from doing a perfectly normal, and fun, activity while not stopping sexual ignorance, violence, or trauma. Might not just teaching how to do it right solve a lot of our problems? There are, of course, how-to sex videos already out there. What does the anti-porn militia think about them?