Bauer

Question 1

Porn Wars

Answer 1

believed the debates that revolved around the porn wars were misguided in how they framed the issues

• Pornography cannot be reduced to just an issue of free speech
• Objectification is not synonymous with pornography
• The role that pornography plays is central and fundamental (connects to sexual desire and sexual identity) which are apart of how we construct ourselves as human beings
• Sex is crucial to being a human being
• Pornography is no longer a product for men nor made only by men

Question 2

Pornutopia

Answer 2

Bauer connects becoming genuinely human to learning to keep one’s deepest sexual longings to oneself and one’s intimates

• The concept of objectification has no place within the world of pornography
• The pleasure of pornography connects to the possibility of exploring sexual desires unfettered by reason (or civilization
• Pornography allows for sexual exploration/desires, become aware of one’s sexual being
• Allows us to live in a space of just eroticism and pleasure, absent of responsibilities and agency
• Pornography is all about taboo (taboo of being a sexual being all the time)
• Autonomy is expressed through exploring and acting on your sexual desires and likes
• To please someone else sexually is to please yourself
• Provides a new standard for both beauty and sexual fulfilment
• Pornography allows people to explore, identity and investigate sexual desires (and all its quirks and moral instabilities)