UPDATE Man Faces Minimum 1 Year in Prison for Bringing Manga to Canada On His Laptop

[sapphi_snake]

@seiya19:

1. Th ideea is that such material may confirm the paedophile's views and give him the necessary encouragement to enact his desires.

2. Yes, being attracted to someone who is r looks like a pre-pubescent child makes one a paedophile. Search the web. You'll find pics of 18 year olds who look like 6 year olds.

3. This is a pointless argument I think, so I won't bother adding much to it. Art is not science, but interpreting it is.

the work has its own inherently artistic value

There's no such thing. Art only exists in the mind of humans.

As I mentioned before, the idea that a work ceases to be art the moment you show sexually explicit content is completely irrational and only explained by the moral views of the time, evidenced by how the evaluation of what we consider to be "taboo" or illegal has changed throughout history.

I don't believe I ever said anything of the like. I said that porn is meant to be "jerk off material". Not every work that features sex is meant to be "jerk off material" (for example the books from The Millennium trilogy feature lots of sexual scenes, but the books themselves send an entirely different message).

although "superior" is rather ambiguous...

Superior, as in a higher level. It can be considered "higher" because it's less obvious, and cannot be seen by an uneducated person.

For example, in sexually explicit content, different sexual positions and gestures, the settings (time/place) where these ocurrs, the kind of people involved, etc could denote various interpretations for different people, which would be more or less relevant to them.

Not any interpretation is relevant, and some can be terribly far-fetched.

So, what if someone takes a look at one of these "filthy" images and interprets that there's value in it, beyond sexual arousal ?

If they can give convincing arguments, they can be taken into consideration.

 

I have a question for you, and I hope you reply: take something that you consider to be a work of art (film, book etc.), and tell me why it's a "work of art", why you consider it to be that way.