The other day I posted about XXX Church’s claim that “Jesus loves Porn Stars”. Today I found an article on The Conservative Voice that blames Human Slavery on Pornography. So, how does the baby Jesus really feel about pornography?
Just like those poor people who suffer from having horribly controlling gambling ‘diseases’, the author describes pornography as an “on-site-sex-abuse manual” that leads the curious towards addiction and abuse. Apparently:
The greedy purveyors of pornography are creating more and more sex addicts whose depraved desires ultimately result in carnal crimes against women and children. Their insatiable demands stimulate amoral slave-traders to increase the supply of helpless victims. The sinful cycle of fleshly lust and greed feeds upon itself and grows.
Interesting. That is like saying that smoking a cigarette will lead a person to become a Colombian Drug Lord… and well, how could the baby Jesus ever approve of a person like that?
If anything, there should be more porn directed towards women. I often find that I am more obsessed with renting porn, going to strip clubs and making homemade films than my darling Zod. If I could have it my way, I would rent two porn flicks per week, go to a strip club once every two weeks and porncast a full length homemade film once a month.
No matter how ‘Mary Carey’ flakey a female porn star may be, women are still the true bosses of pornography. The only reason Ron Jeremy is a household name is because he is envied by heterosexual males everywhere. Women are the real moneymakers of porn since they are more difficult to please than males. In the 1981 NFB documentary entitled Not a Love Story, they said that it is quite strenuous to be a male porn star in the business since you have the added pressure of ‘keeping it up’ and cuming on cue. Unlike women, men cannot fake it.
Granted, there are many women being used and abused by men in the sex industry, but that is mostly thanks to a lack of rights for people involved in the trade. Perhaps if the sex industry in North America was more like old town in Sin City we wouldn’t have so many problems with crimes against women.
Yesterday I found an interesting story about the first enforcement of the 2003 Prostitution Reform Act in New Zealand. Apparently, a man was fined for “risking a prostitute’s life by deliberately taking off his condom” without her knowledge. As a result, the prostitute went through months of grueling tests and eventually the man was fined a total of $530 including court costs.
So, at first I thought this seems to be a great law to prevent the spread of disease and to protect sex workers, but once I saw that the perpetrator only had to pay $530 for his crime, I started re-thinking the whole thing. If this law were broken in the US, the cost would be much greater… unfortunately, the conservative right of America would never allow for any legislation of the sex industry for it would be against the holy text of the bible.
Who is really to blame for the international trafficking of sex slaves, then? And, does baby Jesus really like these porn stars, or is it just propaganda?
I blame those who continually deny rights to sex industry employees … the government and conservative right-wing interest groups. The author believes that everyone involved in the porn industry should be severely punished for ‘contributing’ to human slavery, whether it be women or children, but I believe that we cannot simply blame one thing for the problem.
What the author neglects to discuss in his article is that the Catholic Church and other religious institutions have contributed heavily to the sexual oppression of women and children. Not a day goes by that I don’t surf Google News and find articles upon articles about priests and pastors who have been caught molesting children or possessing child porn. There should be no tolerance for such acts… on sacred ground or not, these people should be imprisoned for their own blatant contribution to sexual slavery.
I believe that this article is designed so that The Conservative Voice can assign and pass the blame of sexual slavery onto someone else. The Theo-Cons are the real problem why the sex trade has not had a chance to progress into a fully legal and well-organized modern system. It is important for the government to develop stronger policies against sex crimes and international human trafficking, not to pass empty unfounded blame and punishment onto the porn industry itself.