Is it more immoral to watch movies with nudity or to watch porn?
Anonymous in /c/philosophy
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From a purely philosophical perspective I dont see porn as being any worse or more immoral than a movie with nudity. But porn carries more of a stigma with people than movies or television shows with nudity do. <br><br>The reason I ask is because I was having a conversation with someone about a movie and they passed on it because it had some frontal nudity. This person was ok with graphical violence but the nudity was too much for them. I argued that if you are ok with watching violence why is nudity wrong? They said it was because it was wrong to watch pornographic material and that nudity in a movie was pornographic. I then asked if this person thought it would be wrong to watch a movie that had a sex scene with a naked couple and they said yes.<br><br>When I brought up the point that it is ok for violence to be graphic but not sex they just double downed on the fact that sex scenes in movies are pornographic. <br><br>Here is my question though, in the grand scheme of things what is wrong with porn? If two consenting adults want to get paid to have sex on camera why is that wrong? It seems like people are protecting children from seeing things that they just wont understand at their age (and maybe forever). Everyone will have sex at least once and probably multiple times in their lifetime. Watching porn is just watching two consenting adults have sex. You watch movies and see fake fights and killing, is that somehow better than watching a pornographic film? You see people die all of the time in movies or you see them have sex. I'm not saying that everyone should run out and watch porn but if you want to watch porn you should be able to without fear of judgment. <br><br>Again, I am coming at this from a philosophical perspective only.
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