Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Marie
Anyway, what he says about dumb surfers is also what I believe is true: they might pick, what I call humiliating porn, up as normal and bring it to real life. Bad example maybe, but what about that soccer player.... whats his name... van Persie. That is, in my eyes, a classic "reality porn" story.
|
Actually, that particular point has been argued many times, but nobody has succeeded in proving it to be true yet. It's analogous to the idea that action movies and computer games cause violence, which is argued just as often and is equally unfounded by research.
Bodelier acknowledges that though, in his article, when he calls that particular argument "weak". The large chunk of his article he dedicates to it is therefore little more than demagogy.
Interesting is that even though he considers the argument to be "weak", it is the only real argument he has for outlawing extreme porn specifically. After all, sexual slavery, child porn, physical threats, snuff, etc. are all illegal already, so that would not require additional legislation. He fails to make any real connection between extreme porn and those things, so there is no other rational "why" behind his position that extreme porn should be illegal than the argument he himself does not accept.