Blogger Power Sparks Debate

Thanks for your comments. It is obvious that you've made a thoughtful effort to leave them. In reply, I'd like to start with points that we both agree with. First, I wholeheartedly agree that pornography on the Internet is potentially harmful to children. I would further add that explicit pornographic content is central in what's potentially harmful, especially to children, and that protecting them from it is the central point of this cause.

Second, I also agree that sex as a topic of discussion and education is still taboo in American culture, even in this new millennium. Most parents (and this is my opinion) would rather not have talks with their children about the subject of sex, even though they are primarily responsible for properly teaching their children about it. And when children reach prepubescence and puberty, parents often get up in arms about what the school systems want to teach their kids about sex.

And yes, a lack of sexual education allows one to fall prey to exploitation, whether they are a child or an adult, and children are especially vulnerable. And as you say, the consequences of this exploitation will follow them into adulthood, further perpetuating the problem.

Pornography as a concept of expression is not new. It is as old as the world's oldest profession. Pornography as a commodity became mainstream in the early to mid seventies, and proliferated in the eighties. With the advent of the Internet and other mediums that proliferation increased exponentially! Without a doubt, children as well as adults turn to it in order to express sexual desire, and no one could successfully argue that sex is not an essential and natural part of human life.

Here is where we will differ. Pornography is a form of expression, however it is different from the words of this blog. Under the provisions of the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution pornography has the right to exist just as much as this blog does. But, as a form of expression, pornography is an entirely different one from the words of this blog (even as we are discussing the subject).