Leanna said:
Having a beer on a couch is an immoral activity? You must have been raised Baptist or something....
Again,
I don't think it is immoral, but baptists do. In the city of Dallas, there are wet and dry areas. You can buy booze in some parts of town and not others. Therefore booze is considered immoral by some people in Dallas, and those people force their morality on others by prohibiting liquor stores in some areas.
It directly ties in with the "legislating morality" concept.
The other two do no damage to society? You are forgetting that real people make those porn DVDs and real people are call girls ---you are forgetting the damage it does to the women and men involved in that industry. If you doubt me, go over to the forum here for people recovering from that industry. Supporting that in any way is completely immoral and disgusting, Christian or not.
I've said this in other threads, but for every Linda Lovelace or Traci Lords who says they were forced into porn, there is a Ginger Lynn or Nina Hartley or Jewel D'Nyle who proclaims that they absolutely love being a porn star.
Linda got born again
after her porn career was over so my personal opinion is that she made up the "somebody made me" gag to shift the blame so her new church buddies wouldn't look down on her.
I'm not sure I believe Traci either. She went to extraordinary lengths to get
into porn, causing a scandal when she lied about her age and was in some porn films at age 16. The porn producers wouldn't have hired her if they had known. If she was being "forced", all she had to do was
tell the truth and she wouldn't have been in porn to get all this so-called abuse.
Have you talked to every porn star in the world? How do you know the hard luck cases are the norm, and not the exception? The ones that think they were "wronged" want to proclaim it to the world. The ones who are happy just quietly rake in the cash.
How many porn stars have you actually met? I have met two: Ginger Lynn and Christy Canyon, both legends from the mid eighties. They didn't seem particularly miserable to me, and were actually rather friendly and entertaining. I didn't see any henchmen of the porn producers lurking behind them with baseball bats.
Same with the prostitutes. Sure, low-rent streetwalkers have all kinds of problems, due to the people they hang around with, but they are not the entirety of prostitution. Call girls are a whole nother level. They typically don't have pimps, which is where most of the streetwalker problems come from. The high-octane call girls get several thousand dollars a night and live a lot better than we do.