Thursday, August 16, 2018

Pornosophy: Aborting an Image


l997 Playboy covergirl, Karen McDougal
Pornography is like an unwanted pregnancy. While not the result of any real sexual act,  it leaves an indelible imprint on the imagination. It’s a little like being impregnated. One of the differences from copulation is that it results in a picture rather than a fetus, though in this case the transgressive image is practically impossible to abort. It’s too bad that Roe v. Wade didn’t deal with the problems of removing an unwanted sexual scenario from the brain rather than just the unborn child in a woman’s uterus. In general there's one other element about pornography that separates it from human sexuality in general and that’s the sense that it's unending state tempts mortality. The biblical temptation that’s the provenance of this nether side of human sexuality is forever canonized in the pornographic conceits that outlive both their performers and audience. Pornography is like the plague to the extent that it's so viral. Is it an overstatement to call a phenomenon epidemic when a site may receive millions of hits in one day? The question of pornography is not ethical or even esthetic to use two of Kierkegaard’s famed categories, it’s phenomenological. If one is to discuss pornography, one might be better served to discuss it along with the matter of opioids, which serve a purpose for those who control their use, but have nefarious consequences when employed by addictive personalities.

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