The Pornography Debate: Part One

Porn History and Addiction - Who's Fault is it Really?

One day while I was going through a list of freelance writing jobs I came across something where I could get paid to review adult movies. After giving it some thought and looking over the webpage I decided why not. Most of the reviewers were men and I thought that a woman's perspective might be welcomed, after all women and men look at sex and porn differently. Today I am one of the top 10 reviewers on that site and have been offered a bigger opportunity with the site. My husband is amused by it all and looks forward to reading my reviews, especially when a movie was so horrible we used the fast forward button on 80% of the movie.

Being an adult movie reviewer sparked my interest in the history of porn and the adult movie industry as well as the different attitudes toward porn, mostly based on gender. It's all really quite fascinating.

The adult movie industry as we know it today is less than forty years old. In those almost forty years society has become faced with various forms of sex addiction and it's all being blamed on the ease that any member of society can get their hands on porn. In fact, internet porn addiction is often categorized separately from sex addiction.

After spending some time reading about the Myths of Porn I found myself wondering if the adult entertainment/sex industry doesn't get a bad rap taking the blame for things that really isn't its fault but the fault of society or individuals.

Any history of pornography starts with ancient cave paintings and Greek pottery that depicted sexual rites. The bottom line is that sex has been depicted in somewhat through out history. Still, that doesn't change that when these ancient cave paintings were unearth during the Victorian Times that they weren't locked away for only the eyes of top scholars to study. It was feared that these images would corrupt women and children, and possibly anyone who wasn't highly educated. For very many years images that depicted sex or nudity were regulated to only being allowed to be viewed by the upper crust of society, as many things were at the time.