Hump

My pal Kristen just celebrated her birthday. Her sweet husband organized a surprise pirate themed party and everything went off without a hitch! There were many Pirate-y grownups and no kids.

I spent the hour or so I was there talking about The Strangers' Hump Festival and the evils of pornography. For the uninitiated, The Hump Festival is an amateur porn film festival - the thought of which both cracks me up and grosses me out.

The two Pirates I was talking to were both unopposed to pornography and they were interested to hear my views and have a chat about it, and their idea for a Hump Festival film involving dogs, but not in a bad way.

I guess I just got to thinking about my porn stance - what do I really believe? Is it inherently evil? Does it provide something good in the world?  

I wouldn't censor it, but I don't watch it. I don't think, ultimately, it's good for anyone. It's confusing for kids to see (even teenagers - remember, their brains aren't quite finished developing) and as always, inappropriate for kids to see.

I think the one point I made that hit home, was that the porn of today, is not the porn of our youth. Playboy Magazine and the internet are two vastly different media. The vast difference being you can go from an image of a naked woman to very hard core porn in minutes.

In fact, I just went and looked at some on line. Just Google “naked women” and see what you get. Scary stuff.

I need to go wash my hands and maybe you need to figure out what you believe about porn. Go visit www.theporntalk.com they can help.