Definition of "pornography"
As sex sells advertising time
on TV, so does it drive web revenues. The explicit and
most often "hard core" nature of most sex websites is such that
the average person would
label them as pornographic.
While there is a ongoing debate over
the definition of pornography, from an
emotional perspective and in terms of
intimacy, we define a pornographic act as one wherein
you use yourself or are used as if
a
sex toy.
Sex toy intercourse
is also an act (often of mutual consent) that consciously does not seek
intimacy, rather merely access to your private and
personal genitalia. There is no serious
intent for what most people would call a "loving relationship."
Again, for the Warrior's Quest, being a sex toy is acceptable.
In
theory at least, anything done by consenting adults is
normative. In
practice, websites abound that focus on underage
sex, pedophilia, violent sex practices, and other themes that most people
do not consider normative
under any circumstance. Yet, as there is no Central Administrator,
there is no Censor. In the ideal Secular space, self-regulation is
the only recognized and respected authority.
A former Supreme Court Justice, Justice
Potter Stewart tried to explain "hard-core" pornography,
or what is obscene, by saying, "I shall not today attempt further
to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced . . .
[b]ut I know it when I see it . . . "
More than see, we experience these
sex toy websites in terms of feeling. What
we overwhelming sense
from these sites
is a feeling of dominion and domination.
In the main, both parties—but especially the women—are presented
as "sex slaves."
Although, as
noted, there is a wide-range of sexual websites, those that concern
heterosexual intercourse leave us with feelings
of aloneness, abandonment, and defensiveness.
The women, notably, appear to have been invaded and robbed.
We Earthfolk always look to acts to
ground our insights. For example, our critique of the three Big Stories
and the rise of
the Warrior's Quest is grounded in our evaluation of the Atomic Bomb
and the import of the picture of Earthrise.The
hallmark act of sex toy websites is the coital
withdrawal (coitus interruptus) and
a lack
of ejaculation inside the woman's body to complete
the act of intercourse.
The "happy ending" which
appears to be normative on these sites is a man withdrawing from
intercourse to masturbate and ejaculate
either into the mouth of a kneeling woman or onto her face.
Again, it is not these acts in themselves that draw our interest
but what
they express—as we see it, they are acts of domination and
expressions of
dominion.
