The reason behind prohibiting visual erotica

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The reason behind prohibiting visual erotica

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1Urquhart
Editado: Dez 30, 2012, 10:56 am

Hi Folks,

I am puzzled by one question that I can not find the answer to:

why is it that it is ok in books, movies and on tv to repeatedly, time and again show torture, murder of all sorts, piles of naked dead bodies from the concentration camps, plus killings in cowboy and Indian movies, etc. but it is outlawed to show pictures in any of that media pictures of a naked man's or woman's body gently and sensitively being made love to?

I have asked my wife and she doesn't know.

Do you?

Ur.

2betweenthecovers360
Editado: Dez 31, 2012, 5:05 pm

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3groovykinda
Dez 31, 2012, 5:10 pm

Well, before someone jumps in with the usual: "Puritains, blah blah blah," there's a couple things to keep in mind.

First, I'm not aware of too many book covers that show piles of naked dead bodies or people being tortured. And I own a bookstore. Though I don't watch any tv, I haven't heard of many shows showing piles of dead bodies or graphic scenes of torture.
If your question is: why is it okay to show violence but not sex, there's a number of reasons.

Economics. Pictures of people intertwined romantically sell, but pictures of people having sex don't. People don't want to be seen reading them. The explosion of e-readers is changing all that, since you can read anything without people knowing it. It was different in the 70's-there were a lot more sexually explicit covers of books then. But political correctness and conservatism came along, and that all went away (sigh).

Plus, and this is my personal theory: Violence is something that (we hope) happens to other people. Sex is something that (we hope) we participate in. It's more personal. And embarrassing too.
And, if you're reading a book with violence on the cover, people don't think you're going to get excited and angry and violent. If you're reading a book with graphic sex on the cover, they're probably going to think you're either going to get or are already aroused, and that's uncomfortable.

If your question is: why is it illegal to show graphic sex but not graphic violence, because the people who want graphic sex don't have as much political power (and money) as the people who want the status quo to remain the same.

4Urquhart
Jan 2, 2013, 9:01 am

Charlie

Thank you. I am going to have to think about the points you have made.

Ur.

5Urquhart
Jan 9, 2013, 4:01 pm

Again thanks for your answer and also for being a book store owner!

Your answers really have been helpful; but I am wondering if there are other answers as well.

The Greeks seemed more open to visual erotica than we are today. Wonder what the implications of that are.

Ur.

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