But the whole point of pornography, even soft porn, is to be ‘better than real life’, to present an unrealistic fantasy. As ‘in the flesh’ human beings we can often disappoint when compared to the air-brushed, well-lit, carefully posed, silent photos of beautiful men and women.

But the whole point of pornography, even soft porn, is to be ‘better than real life’, to present an unrealistic fantasy. As ‘in the flesh’ human beings we can often disappoint when compared to the air-brushed, well-lit, carefully posed, silent photos of beautiful men and women.

Ethis is a fine line to tread, and an even finer line to promote to others. What is one person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter. What is one person’s ‘acceptable behaviour’ is another person’s ‘disgraceful behaviour’. There are personal ethics and the moral, ethical code of the cultural milieu one finds oneself in == leading to the “when in Rome…” idea of changing one’s behaviour (and possibly values) because of the environment. Mistresses and concubines were acceptable at one time and in some locations, now they are not. Respecting one’s elders and giving up a seat on the bus for them was acceptable behaviour once, now it is not. Different times, different milieu, different cultural expectations of a person’s behaviour.

Having said all that, I’ll now wander off and read your post!

Ethis is a fine line to tread, and an even finer line to promote to others. What is one person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter. What is one person’s ‘acceptable behaviour’ is another person’s ‘disgraceful behaviour’. There are personal ethics and the moral, ethical code of the cultural milieu one finds oneself in == leading to the “when in Rome…” idea of changing one’s behaviour (and possibly values) because of the environment. Mistresses and concubines were acceptable at one time and in some locations, now they are not. Respecting one’s elders and giving up a seat on the bus for them was acceptable behaviour once, now it is not. Different times, different milieu, different cultural expectations of a person’s behaviour.

Having said all that, I’ll now wander off and read your post!

another question is .. can you really promote ethics without being cheesy and too preacher-ish ? I have just done a blogpost about it

another question is .. can you really promote ethics without being cheesy and too preacher-ish ? I have just done a blogpost about it

hello, old fruit!

Some sort of ‘action’ would be good, but I don’t know what could be done. I read somewhere that someone had been testing the Creative Commons licence to see how much ‘teeth’ it had (Neville’s blog, perhaps?) but so far it seems that the licence is difficult to police — finding the buggers is half the problem. Although in your instance Monsieur Le Merc should be able to do something. Any word?

And when do I get my personally-signed copy of the calendar, then?

hello, old fruit!

Some sort of ‘action’ would be good, but I don’t know what could be done. I read somewhere that someone had been testing the Creative Commons licence to see how much ‘teeth’ it had (Neville’s blog, perhaps?) but so far it seems that the licence is difficult to police — finding the buggers is half the problem. Although in your instance Monsieur Le Merc should be able to do something. Any word?

And when do I get my personally-signed copy of the calendar, then?