After a small search I agree that humans have never copulated in public. Among Native American tribes, when a couple wanted privacy they would go off far in the woods. Cool, huh? Voyeurism is not normal or healthy in any way. I'm willing to guess that every spiritual teacher who's ever lived would be against watching other people have sex.
@RainDownPlane makes a good point,- how do we begin a conversation as a society about the prevalence of pornography, that it could at least be dialed back? The industry is so far out of control, it has to be reigned in. If it exists then let there be some type of oversight. The groups speaking at colleges and educating the public is a great start. I hope more people will start questioning the individuals who make or finance porn. They will be called out as people become more informed. E.M. Jones has a few strong opinions but he brings up some important parts of the history :
"Over the course of the 1980s, Americans witnessed the simultaneous de-criminalization of usury and pornography. Usury and pornography go hand in hand. The ultimate result of the moral deregulation which took place beginning in the 1970s was massive student loan debt and massive addiction to pornography, which the Cato Institute justified to distract newly enslaved college graduates from the fact that they will never pay off their debts.
In 1986, the Meese Commission made significant inroads in trying to stop pornography, but government could not keep up with the combination of technological innovation and libertarian ideology which used free speech to justify pornography. In 1989, Reuben Sturman ended up going to jail after setting up a series of pornographic film houses, but the film loop he pioneered became obsolete with the invention of the VCR, and VHS tapes became obsolete with the opening up of the Internet. At that point Hollywood produced two pro-porn propaganda films—
Boogie Nights and
The People vs. Larry Flynt—and the government under the direction of Bill Clinton, a man who had difficulty controlling his passions, passed the misnamed Communications Decency Act, which effectively ended government efforts to prosecute obscenity.
Contrary to the freedom which Larry Flynt and the libertarians promised, the result of the de facto decriminalization of pornography was, as St. Augustine could have predicted, an exponential increase in addiction, which is the modern term for slavery to sin. Predictably, the media outlets under oligarchic control said that addiction to pornography was a myth. Reporting on “Fascinating, rigorous new research,”
Psychology Today announced that there is no scientific evidence to support the claim that “sex addiction is real.” That claim flies in the face of the fact that a Google search of the terms “porn” and “addiction” yields 67,000,000 results."
