I'm sorry to hear of her illness, DaveBax. Hope she recovers fully.

You didn't offend at all. The internet, and Forums in general can be rough...it's a function of anonymity and the feeling some folks get that they can write or say anything and get away with it.

It's off topic...but a personal anecdote might help. I've been using WindowBlinds since it's inception (or close to) but up until last year I hadn't written a word in Forums, and hadn't even checked them out. At first, I was totally ignored, and then I managed to summon up the courage to post something...which was totally ignored until some passing pidgeon 'dropped' on it (or so I thought). So I found this guy Zubaz and wrote to him and told him I was gonna quit and never come back (sound familiar up to here?). "The Striped Marvel" wrote back and told me to toughen up, the net's a rough and tumble place but if I wanted to quit, there really wasn't anything he could do to prevent that.

I took his advice. I even found the nerve to Photoshop him. I've learned so much here about the software, Photoshop, some wonderful people....so take mine...stick around: You're important.

If I can help with anything, please don't hesitate to ask...I'm just around the corner. Lurking.

 

No problem, thanks for the advise.

That'll be quite a big 'plus'......

Pompeii may try to lay claim to the first....but it's a fair bet that the first cave drawings weren't all cutesy 'little man spears big mammoth'... there's bound to be one or two pics of sheilas getting a clubbing at the Neanderthal-a-go-go on a Saturday night.....

I didn't want to fill up the whole post with + signs.

It's only porn if it's intended to arouse. I would think neanderthal paintings were painted to tell a story rather than purposedly cause arousal. Writing "I was out hunting mammoth all day, then went home and banged a sheila or two" is not porn, just regular male bragging.

 

 

The 2 major problems with legislating porn is (1) WHO decides what is porn, and (2) deciding WHAT porn is.  I'm sure there would be a lot of hyperreligious, control freaks standing in line for the job of WHO decides what porn is, and that would lead to a lot of what now classifies as "art" to be stamped as illegal. (Remember former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft had drapes put on the statue of Lady Liberty in the Great Hall of the Dept. of Justice?  Supposedly that was because he didn't want to give the opportunity for journalists to take pictures of him with giant breasts in the background and make reference to his person using the word "boob," but you get my drift on this.)

Now, I know there is a huge stretch of the imagination when it comes to anally-inserted tropical fish and classical art, but I suppose, given enough time in reflecting, I could come up with some artistic meaning, even poetic, on why anally inserted tropical fish is a reflection of everyday life.  As an aside, that sounds like a really fun party game to play at an uppity wine-tasting party..."find the parallels of everyday life in this anally-inserted tropical fish film clip, and give details on why this film has changed your life."  

So, what really consistutes as porn, isn't the media itself, but the viewer of the media, more specifically the MIND of the viewer of the media.  Before the internet, and back in the Leave it to Beaver days, young boys would use the Sears catalogue as porn (all those human torsos displaying ladies undergarments....drool), or National Geographic where primitive ladies were there in their birthday suit, totally unaware that they were *gasp* naked and unashamed.

Porn, as with anything else, follows the laws of supply and demand.  By restricting its flow and distribution, it becomes a coveted thing, and more desired.  There will always be a demand for it, but restricting the supply, the demand will increase.  I say, if it's really that much of a scourge, open the flood gates and let it flow until its as common as Wal-Mart.  Then it will acquire the stigma of being blase' and people can get worked up about something that really matters in this world, like actual living, rather than fantasy.

The battery-operated boyfriend a/k/a BOB?  Actually, I belong to a forum of Medical Transcriptionists, most of us are between the ages of 30-50....BOB is a topic that comes up quite frequently there.  I broke up with BOB when I married my husband 8 years ago.  To use a quote out of context that I received in a congratulations card after my first child was born, "they're so much nicer than the plastic kind."

Want to know what porn is? Read the dictionary:

Merriam Webster

Things become (or stop being) pornography depending on the context.

A picture in a family album showing a naked child taking a bath is not porn. Take that same picture and put it in a pedophiles collection, voíla, it's child porn. It's all about context.

Dear Karen,

Love reading your replies. Good stuff. Thanks for the memories...

Love,

Bob

 

Sorry...just couldn't resist. Actually, my thanks to Karen and mickeko for good thinking material. You guys are guaranteed to stimulate a really good discussion. Mick...excellent response. 

 

 

 

I'll creep you all out. There is someone out there getting off on this thread.

The true history of sex toys will make you go.... haWhaaaa? Just ask Doc, he'll know, those pervy bastards.

NT is that prevert (good Southern English). He gets off on 'skinning', whatever that is (and it doesn't sound any too kosher to me).

Everything I learned about toys can be found HERE.

I should be ashamed.....but I'm not, ya bastage.

Proof: What happened to my computer when I looked at NT's obvious deviation. Shame on you, NT.

I read  that "porn is in the groin of the beholder" I doubt that that will ever change.

 

ouch

more laws...really.....I think we have enough laws on the books now to choke on.....more laws is just more govt hassle on freedom....once you loose your freedom to these so called more laws then what will your needs be?