I didn't suggest that we should stop discussing it; I was pointing out that the arguments were becoming absurd because people were taking their own, singular experiences, generalizing it to the entire population of humanity, and then making moral judgments based on these already-skewed notions.
Pornography is any representation of human sexuality with the intent of eliciting arousal. This is the definition.
Nothing about this suggests objectification, violence, degradation, nor does any of it require specific actions in the representation. A partial-nude shot technically qualifies as pornography more than some painfully explicit videos, if for no other reason than it's better at causing arousal in the viewer.
I don't really care that certain people clearly have no idea what porn is. I don't have a whole lot of exposure to South American culture; that's fine. What annoys me is that these same people feel perfectly fine condemning the practice.
Walk down the street with a video camera rolling and catch anyone who looks sexy with the expectation that someone will view it later to masturbate: you've just made porn. This is, by the way, legal.
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