Pornography & Politicians - Damian Green

I didn't think I had ever seen pornography, but then I read the definition - "Printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate sexual excitement". So how is this different to a lot of what we see on TV nowadays? I have seen male female, female female & male male sex acts in very explicit detail on my TV in my sitting room all the time.

Wikipedia, as usual, gives a wide description of pornography.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography

So what is obscenity? - Obscene behaviour, language, or images - Offensive, rude or shocking. Usually being too obviously related to sex, or showing sex. Again, I think I have seen this on my TV.

I'm not sure if I'm naive or prudish. I wouldn't have thought so after 40 odd years of marriage, but who knows.

The thing is, why should politicians, especially male politicians, be any different to any other man. I imagine most men have looked at dirty magazines. Many will have been to strip bars. Many will also have looked at porn on their computers. Porn is instantly accessible, live, & in a way which it wasn't not so long ago. Personally I don't think that is a good thing, because it is also accessible to young people & children.

The things that make the current furore about Damian Green concerning is that it's possible that he did this while "at work", (I use the term losely), & then he may have lied about doing it - UPDATE - Did lie.

The fact that he is a Politician does mean that he is rightly held to very high standards. I couldn't give a toss if he did this at home. I do care if he did this while he should have been carrying out his governmental role & was being paid by us the taxpayers. I also care if he lied, because, as we all know, politicians are supposed to tell the truth!

I also care because I wonder whether the women participants in porn are there because they actually want to be. However according to a sex therapist in "Psychology Today":-
"although a small amount of pornography depicts gruesome behavior, not only does porn not demean women, it celebrates female sexuality—typically without the culturally redemptive context of love, relationship, intimacy etc. This is what people from across the political spectrum find so upsetting. Demeaning to women—that women are imagined as truly sexual beings? Really?"

I think I'm a confused Granny - I don't know what I think about pornography now. Except that I would prefer not to have it gratuitously on my TV screen all the time. It's really getting very boring. How do these actors explain their "performance" to their children?