So what is and what isn't pornography?

[Bluzmann57]

I ask this because yesterday, my employer had an annual, required by federal law, safety training session. There were a few DVD's and then some pictures. We were warned in advance that if we had weak stomachs the pics could be upsetting. The situation was some workers were trying to unload a bulldozer off of a flatbed truck and were not using ramps. They were trying to just roll it off the bed of the truck, which is not only guaranteed to damage the machinery, but is also extremely unsafe. It proved to be fatal to one guy standing in the wrong spot at the wrong time and two of the pics were indeed gruesome, a guy with his head cut off due to the 'dozer rolling over on top of him. It proves a point, but it also offends me more than pictures of naked people. I say this because there was a "Christian" guy in our group who was railing about a couple of nudie magazines that a trucker left in his work area. I told him that in my opinion, the pictures which were passed around were much more disturbing than naked people in a magazine. He just wouldn't agree at all. So what I want to know from DUers, are those pics of the guy with his head cut off more disturbing than naked people in a magazine? I maintain that the dead man is more disturbing than people posing nude and getting paid for it. The photos did have an effect, I doubt that anyone who ever sees them will even think about unloading heavy equipment without proper safety procedures.
Incidentally, this incident occured in China last year, which is likely why we didn't hear about it here in the USA.

[karlrschneider]

1. Nude people might or might not even be pornography. But this is obscene:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Rather simple qualifier, IMO.

If you masturbate to it, it's pornography.

Workplaces accident videos, and car crash videos during Driver's Ed courses, are meant to be cautionary warnings.

Unless you jack off to it, in which case it's pornography.

:thumbsup:

[Jonathan50]

4. Undies ads in the Sears catalog?

I guarantee that they've been pounded to.

[don954]

3. let me put it this way

i see nude people in my sleep, its going to be a good dream. :evilgrin: IF i see dead people, its a nightmare. Which do you think id rather have??!

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

5. Your Error In Your Premise Is That You Are Treating It As If There Is A Right Or Wrong Answer When

there isn't.

It's up to each person to determine for themselves which is offensive to them. You can have all the people you want agree with your position in this thread and that still wouldn't make his view more wrong. On the flip side, maybe a ton of people would agree with him. That wouldn't make his view more right either.

It's a subjective opinion and most definitely one of 'to each their own'. It's ok that you have the opinion that you do and ok that he has the one that he does. Neither is more right or wrong than the other.

[Southsideirish]

6. Caller on Relevant Radio (Catholic) said image of female body "pornographic"

Today on the Drew Mariani show a caller told of picking up a copy of "O," Oprah's magazine, and seeing a page of 4 naked female bodies. I don't know what the purpose was but I imagine it was supposed to be something regarding respecting one's body - no matter what it looked like.
Anyway, he said he was disgusted by the "pornography" in a popular women's magazine, etc. and the host agreed with him.
Since when is a photo of a nude woman "pornographic?"

[niyad]

7. the entire bush maladministration is pornography

[Bucky]

8. The root word "pornos" carried the connotation of slavery, that is...

a second class person whose body you were free to utilize for pleasure (or pain). So I'd say porn is when you degrade a person's worth and erotica is when you celebrate one aspect of it.

Or maybe I'm defining the slippery slope.