This is not breaking news, but I just read an article about a small town taking a stand against porn, or rather a stand against anything deemed too sexy. And I just don’t understand why. Porn does not make people bad, porn is entertainment that happens to have sex, or sexual situations. You may even call it sexy entertainment if you so choose. You are not supposed to take it any more seriously than you take a monster who attacks New York or a child who sees dead people. Yes, not everyone involved in porn (whether written or video) decides that it’s the best move for their career, but there are a lot of things people try and don’t like. Still, here in America, especially small town America we can’t seem to decipher between what is real and what is not. And that’s why we keep mistaking porn for real life situations. I’ll say it again, porn is for entertainment value, not to be taken as word of G-d.

I’m reading this fantastic Canadian book on pornography by Debbie Nathan and she gives you the real, unbiased deal on porn. Basically she says the negative hype around porn is over-inflated (hell yeah!) and the media spin is always going to slant it so that people talk trash about porn.

Seriously folks, if porn was so harmful to the American population then we’d have way more problems around porn than we actually have. In fact, according to Nathan’s book:

A 2001 study by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation found that seven out of ten fifteen- to seventeen-year-olds in the United States have looked at pornography online. In another survey, completed in 2004, seven in ten eightee- to twenty-four-year-old men reported that they had visiting an online porn site in the month before the study was conducted.

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