Re: More sterility

In the 70s boy skin mags were perfectly legal in my country up to 1978. I don't see what is wrong with capturing the beauty of a boy, and I don't see what harm comes from wanking over such a picture. Crazy preconceptions? Well, I suppose those will be quickly dispelled by a real sexual encounter. Dulls sexual arousal? According to who? That wasn't my experience of consuming porn when I was younger. Rather the contrary. Divorces sex from real human relations? Well, I don't accept that every orgasm must be with another person to be valuable, or that there is anything bad about solitary masturbation. Encourages the subjects to treat their bodies as commodities? This is purely rhetorical. A 13 year old kid gets some pocket money in return for a few nude snaps. What is wrong with that? There are a lot worse things that people do for money. Most jobs, for example. Pederasty is not itself procreative. One could just as well say that man-boy love sterilises. But just as man-boy love can be part of a culture that is more fertile than our present one, so sex work, including erotica, can be integral to a fertile society. Prostitution and the family have gone hand in hand. The declining fertility of our societies might be analysed in terms of urbanisation, neoliberalism, feminism or technology. But sex work? Porn? I don't find moralising pseudo-explanations convinving. It's about as plausible as saying that Rome fell because of its sexual decadence.