Apr 21 2009
Could Pornography Go The Way of Tobacco?
What will future society think of current society’s porn acceptance? That was the basic premise behind yesterday’s New York Times “Idea of the Day.” The blog post asks:
The public moral status of tobacco half a century ago is strikingly similar to that of pornography today,” a scholar writes. Like tobacco once was, Internet pornography is “widely accepted as an inevitable social fact,” for better or worse. But as with tobacco, that could change.
Mary Eberstadt of the Hoover Institute seems to think pornography could share a similar vilified fate as tobacco.
Before the Surgeon General came out with all that cancer causing stuff, tobacco was widely accepted and widely used. Today, pornography is (more or less) widely accepted and widely used.
However, unlike tobacco, it’s hard to see how pornography could be dangerous or life-threatening as long as we’re talking the normal stuff – no kiddie porn or violence here. It’s just a little harmless fun. Then again, I guess that’s what people used to think about smoking too…
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