Porn - Philosophy For Everyone: How To Think With Kink - Plot & Excerpts
Not because they are not problematic, but because that problem itself is very difficult to articulate. It rests on the assumption that we ought to treat pornography as very different from other aesthetic objects (literature, films, paintings, etc.) because pornography necessarily involves immoral practices. Accepted artistic objects are judged aesthetically separate from any considerations of immoral practice in their production or immoral ideas in their expression, and immoral practices or decisions on the part of artists, such as Gauguin’s treatment of his family, are very often excused because of the value of the object itself. But this is not so with pornographic objects. Art can be immoral and the artist who exploits others is censured or punished, but art need not involve these practices. An accepted intuition about pornography is that one cannot make or participate in pornography (including consuming it) without being party to some wrong. However, what this immorality might be is more difficult to discern. So, we must first identify something about pornographic objects which is different from other aesthetic objects and, second, be able to ensure a consensus of agreement that this thing deserves an attitude of disapproval. It is no good me, the individual David Rose, stating that pornography is obscene for me personally and ought, therefore, to be banned because I might also object to use of capers in cooking, but that would be just my opinion and no one is obliged to agree even if they respect my right to express it.
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