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**bapimporb** · 10-07-2008, 08:15 PM

First, why can't "soft porn" be literature too?

Where is it written that literature is not allowed to be sexually arousing?

What is the ratio ? you know, the amount of actual depictions of sexual activities to pages ? that's 'allowed' before a piece ceases to become literature and becomes "soft porn".

... Is it possible, I wonder, to create sexually stimulating pornography without a) exploiting young women; and b) pretending it's literature?

Yes ? not least because not all porn features "young women". And if we're talking about books, then how are "young women" 'exploited' by books?

And, err, yes. But I'm not aware that anyone has pretended otherwise.

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bapimporb Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 532 Senior Member	First, why can't "soft porn" be literature too? Where is it written that literature is not allowed to be sexually arousing? What is the ratio ? you know, the amount of actual depictions of sexual activities to pages ? that's 'allowed' before a piece ceases to become literature and becomes "soft porn". ... Is it possible, I wonder, to create sexually stimulating pornography without a) exploiting young women; and b) pretending it's literature? Yes ? not least because not all porn features "young women". And if we're talking about books, then how are "young women" 'exploited' by books? And, err, yes. But I'm not aware that anyone has pretended otherwise.
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