I'm not going to comment on the subject matter, other than to point out the irony of the repeated use of terms like 'no one religion' and 'a broad church' to describe p*rnography...

Lev

you ask 'Why do you assume that people cannot be proud, or at least neutral, of being an advocate for the adult industry? Is it because you think that sex is 'dirty' or something? Are you still freaked out by the concept that your parents had sex, at least once?'

The obvious fruit of the pervert industry is relationship breakdown, unfaithfulness and child molestation. The gift of sex within marriage has the opposite fruits to those listed above. I find it interesting that those wanting to promote the pervert industry are often offended when asked if they would be happy for their daughters to perform sex for the public. Any legitimisation of this money making industry should be given the scorn it deserves. To try and pretend it somehow is good for society is an absolute joke. The champions of this industry are the first to shout when boys and girls are viewed as sex objects. Total hypocrisy!

Fantastic.

Hate to be boring, but I sense objection to porn from this writer is a 'feminist' issue, rather than a puritanical one.

If you look at porn as a maturbation aide, then why is all great and liberating for women to use vibrators that can vibrate faster than any mans fingers or toungue, and massive dildos, but somehow a man is responsible for a woman's feelings of inadequacy when it comes to viewing porn.

Whitty, sorry, you've lost me. Which writer are you referring to?

Yeah I realised that wasn't clear but there is no facility to edit. I was referring to Adele Horin.

Runner,

You make a number of assertions that "the pervert industry" causes relationship breakdown, unfaithfulness and child molestation.

Can you prove this? Because the empirical evidence, as you say, suggests hypocrisy on behalf of the religious institutions.

http://www.deception.com.au/

Further, as has already been shown to you in the past, that there is indeed correlations between the prevalence of sexual publications and sexual violence. Although, not the correlation you would expect.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=913013
http://www.law.stanford.edu/display/images/dynamic/events_media/Kendall%20cover%20+%20paper.pdf
http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/online_artcls/pornography/prngrphy_rape_jp.html

I also ask you to give an example of "those wanting to promote the pervert industry are often offended when asked if they would be happy for their daughters to perform sex for the public".