[Advent Shade]

Here's a couple of paragraphs from A.C. Graylings book 'The Reason of Things' on the subject of sex and pornograph;

If sexual relations are ever perfunctory and unimaginative, unsatisfying or downright frustrating, exploitative, furtive, sleazy or violent, it will have a great deal to do with the meddling hand of moralism. If there is a troubling level of sexually transmitted disease in society, it will again have much to do with moralism. If there are unwanted pregnancies, especially among single girls and young women, and a high rate of abortions, it will yet again be because of moralism. Why? Because of the counterproductive effect of moralism's futile endeavour to limit and control sexuality by denial, by limiting knowledge and opportunity, and by directing the sexual side of human nature into as anodyne and routine a channel as possible. Moralists think that if they expose people - and especially the young, those volcanoes of hormones - to as little stimulation as possible by censoring sexual images and references, and by keeping them as much in the dark and as much under a sense of prohibition as they can, they will thereby squeeze sex out of daily life, or at any rate keep it bottled.

But exactly there lies the mistake. Imprisoning sexual feelings is an invariable recipe for potentiating them. Ignorance about how to deal with them means that when they express themselves they might do so negatively, even harmfully - and with serious consequences: as when the combination of secrecy and shame with urgency results in couples not having contraception available when they need it.

That's a lot of text I know, but I really couldn't see any way of editing it down, it really is too beautiful to carry out such blunt mutilation. A.C. Grayling is a fantastic philosopher and author.