I have no problem believing that bin Laden was a hypocrite. But I also have no problem believing that the u.s. government is a liar. Hence I have no opinion one war or ’tother as to the existence of bin Laden’s alleged porn collection.
Recent Comments
- D. F. Linton on Cordial and Sanguine, Part 55: Istanbul Redux
- Roderick on It’s What’s in the Dark – It’s What’s Always in the Dark
- Cordial and Sanguine, Part 56: The Mind Cannot Foresee Its Own Eternal Recurrence, Recurrence the Second on Cordial and Sanguine, Part 53: The Mind Cannot Foresee Its Own Eternal Recurrence
- Roderick on Galloping Around the Cosmos Is a Game for the Young
- Ashton on An Agorist in the Agora, with Business in Byzantium
- Ashton on Words Mean Stuff
- Mariana on That’s Just Wrong
- Irfan Khawaja on An Agorist in the Agora, with Business in Byzantium
- Brandon on Galloping Around the Cosmos Is a Game for the Young
- William Grigg on Galloping Around the Cosmos Is a Game for the Young
Meta
-
Recent Posts
- Cordial and Sanguine, Part 56: The Mind Cannot Foresee Its Own Eternal Recurrence, Recurrence the Second by Roderick
- Cordial and Sanguine, Part 55: Istanbul Redux by Roderick
- 10 + 11 by Roderick
- KSR FTW by Roderick
- Words Mean Stuff by Roderick
- Galloping Around the Cosmos Is a Game for the Young by Roderick
- Cordial and Sanguine, Part 54: Bleeding Heart Libertarianism in Istanbul by Roderick
- An Agorist in the Agora, with Business in Byzantium by Roderick
- That’s Just Wrong by Roderick
- Molinari Unbound! – Septième Soirée by Roderick
4 Comments
Pro-erotica feminist Susan Bright claims that some of the most staunchly anti-”porn” feminists had their own collections of erotic imagery. I think that the anti-porn inclinations of conservative religious types are driven by fears that pornography leads to sexual liberation. Women are often oppressed because they are viewed as threats to male strength (whether moral or physical). This is evident in some of the ideas that drove the Great European Witch Hunt, or the notions of seminal economy in the nineteenth century. People in positions of power or aspirants to power often fear, and with good reason, sexual imagery, and the dangers it poses to the “order” they hope to impose. At the same time they often enjoy it themselves.
“I think that the anti-porn inclinations of conservative religious types are driven by fears that pornography leads to sexual liberation.”
Or perhaps by the fact that pornography is soul-corrupting?
By why pass on an opportunity to smear Christians?
So, “that pornography is soul-corrupting” is a fact, but my “I think..” is a smear? While I suppose that by referring to “conservative religious types” I included many Christians, in this case I was more directly discussing Bin Laden, a conservative religious Muslim. I guess I’ll be more inclined to believe that many conservative Christian anti-pornography types are concerned with the corruption of the soul (whatever one takes that to mean) when they make as big a deal out of things like torture or war, which one would think are vastly more “soul-corrupting.”
But why pass on an opportunity to smear people involved in the sex industry?
It baffles me that the president says that we don’t need to “spike the football”, but at the same time information like this is released.
One Trackback
[...] to a reader’s email note, I learn that my recent post on bin Laden’s possible porn stash has been quoted in The Independent and The [...]