The Sunny Side of Smut

   The article “The Sunny Side of Smut” is written to expose about the different view towards pornography where it can be seen as a positive side. The excerpt by Melinda Wenner Moyer suggested that it is not immoral act to watch pornography as it is able to prevent many serious sex cases like rape and sexism. As we know, pornography has been labelled as an immoral action to be done but this article inversely comes up with the ideas of seeing pornography in positive view. In fact, despite of others example the writer came up, we could barely think critically that pornography is a bad idea to educate people.

    Porn along with controlled masturbation improves performance. Sex therapists often recommend using masturbation as practise for sex. Adding porn into the mix can help make it more realistic, improving the ability of man or women to respond and perform during the real thing. However, Porn makes women seem less attractive to men, Naomi Wolf. "The Porn Myth." The Atlantic. 2010: "The onslaught of porn is responsible for deadening male libido in relation to real women, and leading men to see fewer and fewer women as “porn-worthy.” Far from having to fend off porn-crazed young men, young women are worrying that as mere flesh and blood, they can scarcely get, let alone hold, their attention”. Porn can serve as a (partial) substitute for sex life. For people that (for various reasons) don’t have a sexual life, pornography can (partially) serve as its substitute. This holds especially well for men, who are much more visually oriented (with regard to sex) than women are, as can be seen from the fact that the clear majority of pornographic material focuses on the female form. Nevertheless, Porn leaves men feeling empty and upset with themselves. David McLeod, a marketing executive, said to the Guardian in a 2003: "You can easily get too much of it. It's deadening, nullifying, gratuitous, unsatisfying. At one point I was single for three years and I used a lot of porn then. After a while, it made me feel worse. I'd feel disgusted with myself and have a huge purge”

Porn degrades human romance to mere sex. It debases human interactions by eliminating love, laughter and all other emotions, and reducing them to the crudely sexual. While this is not always the case with porn, it is generally true, thus sending the wrong message to men and women about how they should prioritize sex in their lives.

Pornography encourages promiscuity and shallow relationships. Ray Wyre, a specialist in sexual crime, said to the Guardian in 2003 that pornography "encourages transience, experimentation and moving between partners. Pornography does damage because it encourages people to make their home in shallow relationships”.