Beloved ones and ones, Iyest greetings in purity and righteousness...
This topic, whew I feel I have so much to say...
Give thankhs for bringing up this discussion sistren EmpressBlogger, and also to the ones who have shared opinions.
First I want to address the definition as I see it of pornography. I don't think that anything that the individual sees as inciting lust is considered pornographic, as the I had said sistren that a clothed man with long locks is porn for the I. I disagree. Though the man's appearance is beautiful and causes a physiological reaction in the Iwomban, the man himself is not an object of pornography. He is simply a man, and the I a womban, and the response is natural and necessary if we should Itinue the human existence. What I define as pornography is material specifically designed to both dehumanize the subject into a sex object, and control the mind of the viewer at the same time. For example, an artistic nude photo is not considered pornographic to me. There is a huge difference between nakedness and nudity. Nudity is natural existence of all creatures, while nakedness is revealing the body in an unnatural and perverted way. As a photographer I used to photograph the nude body regularly. Artistically and with the intention of glorifying the beauty of the natural form. The same idea applies to the photographs (or even scenes from daily life eye witnessed) of African womban with their breasts showing. This is not nakedness because it is the natural state of these womban all the time. They are not revealing anything for the specific purpose of inciting a sexual response. Maybe they are simply feeding their children. The same idea applies to the men of the Suri tribe who fight (often nude) by striking each other with long wooden sticks, the winner to be glorified as a master herdsman and warrior. Their natural nudity is not scandalously revealing of anything, it is simply how they exist.
There is a huge difference between these images of naturality, and materials that are created with the specific intention of inciting sexual arousal, to a complete stranger no less!! First and foremost we must think of the WOMBAN who is posing in the photo, not the man who is looking at the image later on down the line. I say this because pornography is a largely female industry... but the same applies for male pornography. And we are not even approaching yet the subject of explicit videos of sexual acts. All of these materials, first of all, degrade those who pose/perform in them. The person who has stooped to that level, whether male or female, has completely lost respect for themselves as a GOD CREATOR OF LIFE (what sex is meant for) and degraded themselves to the point of objectification. And most of these people posing, they are doing it not only out of lack of selfrespect, but also out of economic desperation! This is not a fate that we should wish on ANY of our fellow human beings, and we as conscious individuals should feel heartbreak at the idea that our brothers or sisters would lose their regal dignity and divinity in this way. How can you look at your sister exposing herself in this shameful way without weeping? Can you go inside of her mind and her heart, just imagine how she feels about herself? If so, you would never ever be aroused by those images, only sickened, and heartsick also.
I want to address the idea of masturbation also, since the I Matafale brought it up. Even masturbation without the use of pornographic images or videos. What we have to realize is that sexual acts without the intention or even remote possibility of CREATION OF LIFE are empty, void of purpose. To seek orgasm without intending to create life, this is the way of people who are stuck in the physical senses, forgetting their spiritual nature. It has taken me a long time to overstand the reason behind sexual ascetism, but I finally see it. To engage in sex and orgasm, even WITH a beloved partner, even in act of life creation, is an action which ties us more and more to the physical senses. When in fact we are not bodies. Our bodies are only loaned to us from the earth, to be used as vehicles. We are not physical beings, we are spirits controlling bodies as one drives a car. To identify with the body and to seek physical stimulation is a distraction from our spiritual essence. The more often we indulge the physical, the more we program ourselves to identify as a body (not a spirit DRIVING a body). For these reasons I don't think that it benefits anyone to masturbate at all. It is a huge disservice to yourself as a spiritual being, and it is a risk of becoming addicted to sensory stimulations of all kinds.
Hemphill and RastaGoddess.... yes Iyahs, I agree 100% with the I&I statements, both. More wiseminds and innerstanding for I&I, nothing less!
Rastafari love
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