I will say, here in the beginning, that I truly hate pornography. The true evil of pornography is that it tells the lie that the deed makes the life, rather than the truth which is the life must enable the deed or the deed is just a hollow and meaningless charade.
There are so many forms of pornography in our world: power porn, pistol porn, money porn, on and on ad nauseam, and of course the form most folks think of in association with that word which is sexual porn.
Of course, there as above my definition runs far, far beyond the sexual in and for itself. My definition concerns any and all things where sexuality and sensuality are presented not as the servant of love, but rather as its' master.
I have no problem at all with looking at naked people doing interesting things, hey, if you're young and athletic and the two of you feel like hooking a knee apiece through the chandelier, grabbing the china cabinet with a hand apiece while still managing to do something interesting in the middle? I'll take a look, might even learn something. Just don't show me sexuality degraded into brutality in the name of love, shallow ego trips promoting self deceiving forms of cruelty. In my life I've seen what happens to people when those attitudes gain traction, I've seen what it does to lives. It isn't pretty.
I've also seen how sex and sexuality has been misused by the various social entities... governments, religions... as the fulcrum for levers to compel folks to accept their more often than not irrational beliefs. I'll name no names because I'm sure you have your own list of those. Common to both, the pornographer and the manipulator is one thing they absolutely must have for their tactic to succeed: ignorance of the difference between love... the bond between hearts and lives... and the sex and sexuality intended to serve as support and sanctuary between those whose lives are fused as they undertake the labor of love which is the consequence of sex: rearing the children who will continue the human race.
The AntiPorn series of stories are written to contest that ignorance, they are to the best of my ability stories where sex and sexuality are central to the theme and plot set to illustrate the difference between sex and love, to show those two huge facets of the human condition from a perspective to recognize each for what it really is.
[this post edited and revised Sep 2016]
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