First of all I congratulate you for your consciousness of the democratic right to dissent and disagree. True spirit of democracy lies in the freedom of expressing our legitimate right to disagree the notions and ideas we think against our conscience. In a country, full of sycophants and false praises, when we come across someone who disagree to an idea I think right, is a happy matter for me. I hold high respect to such people who allow their mind to speak. You would also like me more if I speak out the things I regard true, opposing me idealistically, right?
When I tell porn or erotica has a purgative effect, I mean it is in a society which has uprooted all its old dirt. European society, especially the Scandinavian nations, accept change after eradicating its past sleaze. Say, the ugliness of the primitive society was completely abolished before the advent of feudalism. After much time, the capitalism pushed aside feudalism with its all reactionary elements. Capitalism, its old order of exploitation of men and nature disappeared on the arrival of socialistic ideals, retaining the liberalism, freedom of opportunity, encouraging healthy competitions among the entrepreneurs. Only after the removal of the old dirt of a system, the new system arrived.
But unfortunately, such a change did not take place in India and the US. Changes of a new order came into being on the layer of the dirt of the existing system. And another changes of another system took place on the layers of yet other old systems. That was why Indians are in the space and at the same time Sati is practiced here.Wandering cows and the the world’s best IT company can be seen in the same street. India and other Third World nations show the juxtaposition of things that belong to all the dirt of the old systems and the present. Liberal sexual ideas have no place here at the same time the rich can have ultra sexual practices like wife swapping and rave parties. Living together and lying couples brutally just because their choice of partners happens here.
My arguments may be ridiculous but I believe that economy and sex are the true dynamics that decide a healthy society. In a way, the ideals of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud are the ultimate for making an ideal society. Bob Marley not Yesudas can sing better for a good society, Vincent Van Gough nor Ravi Varma can paint a better world.
A cultured mind that reads porn can find its purgative quality. Some one who think sex is tool for torture, someone who doesn’t allow new ideals to flourish, will develop more perversion resulting in problem for others.
Phil Zukerman’s studies on Scandinavian nations and my sojourn in Copenhagen [Official] are the points of argument. I do not argue that my words are truthful to all. I just talked the things which seem true to me. At the same time I respect others opposing views however strong they are.
Hope you have more to say in this regard and let the breeze of ideas flow freely. My garden has enough space for receiving the freedom of breeze….