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YnotBob and I had an on-air debate a while ago (which I'll concede that he won-bastard), and it got me to thinking.

He had Rob Black from Extreme Associates on-air and I made it known in no uncertain terms (in the chatroom) that I believed his material is reprehensible. I said that if ANY material that's legal today, should be made illegal, it's EA's.

Bob called me a hypocrit for working in the industry today and not supporting his efforts the way we would have for Larry Flynt back in the day.

After talking with Bob again yesterday, he didn't retract his statement about me being a hypocrit, but also said there's nothing terribly wrong with BEING a hypocrit. (He actually apologized for making me feel bad, but I wasn't seeking an apology, so that wasn't necessary). Fine. 'Nuff said about that.

I thought further and I'm on record as stating that the legal age for women in porn SHOULD be 21 imo. Most 18 year old girls today can't fathom the ultimate consequences of signing off on naked pictures of themself whenthere's only herself and a cameraman present.

But, I don't have a big problem with women who are 18 and doing it today. I wish the age was 21, but I'm morally socialized to it so it's not THAT big a deal to me.

Now, I think we'd all agree that we don't want the government breathing down our necks for things such as record keeping mistakes, and I know MOST people would be outraged if they DID raise the legal age to 21.

But, what if they suddenly became more LENIENT. What if they were to LOWER the age to 16?? Remember that this is ENTIRELY hypothetical people and isn't likely to happen in our lifetime. (This example was the reason I called Bob, but I'm not gonna reveal his opinion, because it isn't my place to do so).

WOULD you promote it if it WERE legal where you live? I most assuredly wouldn't, because my morals tell me otherwise, regardless of whether or not it's the law. I couldn't support anyone that promoted it either. It being the law and there not being anything I could do, I'd live with it, but not be happy about it. The same as I wouldn't promote anything produced by Extreme Associates. The law has no bearing on my morals on those two issues, regardless of how much money was to be made.

For those of you too uneasy to discuss the age thing, imagine it being ANYTHING that is against your morals. Beastiality could be another example.

Simply put, could you support a law that flew directly in the face of your morals? Or would you cast your morals aside and promote OR support ANYTHING, so long as it was legal? Or, do you say, well the law says it's so, so it must be okay?


P.S. Someone who's opinion I value greatly commented on this and she told me "In my reality, I only give a shit what the law states in order to not be arrested, when it comes to what I will and will not support, the law's irrelevent to me."

Which states my opinion much more clearly in just one sentence.