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C we find love in porn
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C we find love in porn Before we can answer the question of why people use porn, we need to ask what porn is, and who its users are. Although lawyers, feminists, priests, and scientists all have tried to describe it, a satisfactory definition of porn does not exist. Some distinguish between erotica and porn, with porn being more violent, portraying unequal power in sexual relations, or showing activities that are judged to be immoral. The Webster dictionary defines pornography more instrumentally, through one of its presumed functions, as "the depiction of erotic behavior intended to cause sexual excitement." Porn or not, representations of sexual behavior have existed through the centuries and across cultures. It has been said that pornography documents man's archetypical concern with sexuality. But does this mean that the reasons for its existence, or the functions of porn, have remained the same over time? The answer is no. The famous Kama Sutra, with its sexual illustrations, is known as erotic literature, but it was mainly used as an educational device, an instruction manual. In the brothels of Pompeii,<b> explicit </font></b>paintings of sexual positions on the walls served as a menu, so a shy customer could point to an image to indicate what he wanted (etymologically, the word pornography comes from "writings about prostitutes"). In Greece, representations of sexual intercourse could be found on the bottoms of 's plates, so they could have something amusing to look at when they finished their meal. And in Athens, you could find phallic statues of Priapus on street corners, at which women would kneel and pray for fertility. The modern Western world has removed<b> explicit </font></b>sexual depictions from everyday life (although allusions to sex are omnipresent), and nowadays the term "porn" is reserved for a more restricted category of sexual representations, one with a narrower function, consistent with Webster's definition -- namely, to cause sexual excitement. |
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