I don't have any spectacularly exciting ideas, sorry. Most of y'all seem to be advocating a trip to Amsterdam, but I can't really believe that very many of us have got the spare money (or the time: Week 12, I mean, think about it...) to make such an extravagant excursion feasible.
At least, I know I haven't, so I can't get behind that idea.
One topic that struck me as being conspicuously absent from the module guide was that of pornography-- particularly its changing position / status as 'entertainment' in modern society (or has that really changed, in any meaningful way...?), and the means and media of its consumption. Both the the production and the consumption of porn are still regarded as essentially 'bad' by social moralists-- just think back to the Moral Majority censorship shitstorms of 1980s America (those of us who were around)-- yet it's now freely available in any flavour and quantity to anyone with an internet connection... and I can't help but notice that a very large section of the class cited pornographic photos and/or videos as primary masturbatory aides in Thursday's survey.
I think that a session on porn and its value to society is clearly called for...
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I'm in agreement with Pornography being a huge and mostly overlooked issue. The sheer amount of free and to a lesser extent paid porn sites on the net and their content does require scrutiny. To my mind adults should be able to look at whatever they like as long as it doesn't break any other existing laws of consent. The fact that it is so openly available to children is a different matter. With our desensitised attitude to porn it's easy to forget how distressing and confusing some of the content available could be to minors. The policing of the internet is a non-starter so the responsibility falls on parents to try and shield their kids from inappropriate material. Maybe we should be looking more at the insatiable desire of the public to watch pornography, is it merely a case of human curiosity and libido? or is it symptomatic of a moral sickness in society?
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