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VandalHeart -> RE: From the Viewing Other's Kink's Thread (6/15/2006 5:10:12 PM)
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Here in America, there are groups abound that "fight the good fight" night and day to stop the porn industry from depicting scenes of rape, incest, and underage sex. The list of companies effected by this crusade is growing day by day. In one case, PBS sent a camera crew along on the filming of "Forced Entry," an adult film by Extreme Associates Productions. Through misrepresentation, the religious right misconstrued that the film's contents were in fact not realistic, but real. Rob Black and Lizzie Borden Black were brought up before a grand jury and eventually the supreme court on charges of conspiracy to commit rape among others. Fortunately, what the religious right could not do was stop the actresses participating in the rape fantasies from testifying that they were, in fact, professional actresses - paycheck stubs and all. Filmmaker Max Hardcore has also faced such legal action due to the ambiguity of the scenes depicted in the vast majority of his films, since most of the actresses involved look incredibly young, their youthful appearance cultivated, and the scripts including lines such as "stop it, mister" and "don't tell mommy." Depictions of underage sex have always been illegal, rape scenes are in the early stages of being litigated into oblivion as I post this, and from the looks of things, incest is next on the chopping block. It won't be long until depictions of all hardcore sex including BDSM of all sorts, and then eventually pornography altogether will be illegalized. All the while rape statistics, in addition to underage sex, child molestation, STALKING, incest of all shapes sorts and sizes, combinations of all of the above and murder with a sexual motive are all on the rise across all of the 48 contiguous U.S.
Meanwhile, in Japan, adult entertainment is nearly three times the size of that in the U.S. and the only censorship laws in place are concerning the showing of pubic hair, the showing of penetration, and the actual involvement of underage actors and actresses. Please note, that whereas it is not legal to show these things in Japanese sold videos, it is legal to remove the digital scrambling if the videos are to be shipped outside of the country - they do not extend their censorship laws to other people. Essentially, they realize that while we may not act like it, we, as other countries, are grown ups and can make our own grown up decisions. If we fuck up, there is always the option to invoke U.N. action or go to war, but our porn isn't hurting them, so who cares? To be fair, there is one problem that came from Japan's lack of sensitivity to the potential perversion of it's country's filmmakers and other citizens. It is still a popular fetish among the Japanese film industry to depict scenes of nonconsentual groping on a crowded subway car. The craze spilled into real life, and it got to be such a problem that even low income companies were starting their own transportation arrangements for their female employees. The government eventually did step in, however, and did something absolutely crazy: they started a women's only subway line. It must be crazy, because it was actually dealing with the problem itself and its causes instead of using censorship to stop a secondary issue that, while contributary, was not the sole cause of the problem - something that has seldom happened here in the U.S.
Basically, having a fantasy and enacting a fantasy with a consentual adult, no matter what that fantasy may be, is not illegal or even immoral by most standards, including the vast majority of christianity's interpretations. Once again, people with small minds cannot accept that some people have better self control than they do. These pedantic fools know that they can't control themselves unless they stay busy, so they spend their time trying to convince everyone else that any deviance at all is evil and must be stopped. Unlike Japan, and like most of the U.S., symptoms and not causes are treated for the sake of keeping busy and not upsetting whatever aspect of the natural order is sacred to whoever.... Just live and let live until someone else doesn't let live. At that point, and at that point only, do what you think is right, but don't stop someone else's fun just because you think that it could potentially lead to something bad happening. Bad things happen every day. They can't all be stopped, and believe it or not, some people actually come out stronger on the back end. That's the stuff heroes are made of right there. Hurting people for things they haven't done, no matter what the risk of them deciding to cross the line, is wrong. Punish the guilty, and let the innocent do as they wish until you can prove that the innocent are now the guilty. Until then, let it go, no matter how distasteful you may think it is.
While we're on the subject, Dustyn, I hope you were listening, because I realized during the course of my typing that we are both doing this. Just live and let live, and so will I. I just hope we can do it at much further than arms length. I don't like you, and I probably never will. Our mutual acquaintance almost certainly never will. Neither of us cares one bit what you think of us, although you probably think it is your right and duty to annoy the living shit out of us. I would venture a guess that you aren't really fond of the posts we direct at you, either. I'm offering you the chance to just walk away from all of it. I'm not saying that you need to stop posting on this site, just quit going out of your way to annoy us. I can't speak for her, but I can say that I will stop talking to you. Sound good?
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