There seems to be a downright dark age confusion among people as to what is considered pornography and what is art. There is a very obvious, strong, simple distinction. Pornography is meant to arouse the body, specifically the genital area. Art is meant to arouse the mind, heart, soul. There is no idea or concept behind pornography and its sole purpose is provide instant visual sexual stimulation to the viewer, whereas art serves the sole purpose of making you think, contemplate, use your head in a complex manner that creativity stimulates in us. It would take a lot more effort and imagination to be sexually aroused by a nude work of art, for instance, than a straightforward pornographic image. Art, at its very nature, has no relation to an industry as low as pornography—works of art stand apart from it like a mansion from a mobile home. Only an idiot with an IQ of 20 wouldn’t know the difference. It’s true that art can be as explicit as porn sometimes, but how is that a bad thing if its objective is never to arouse sexually, thus putting an entirely different label on it? If art ever does use porn as a subject, only in an obvious way to make a philosophical point or social statement, to make fun of it or degrade it. Art is creation. Porn is destruction. Polar opposites. Ignorance is the enemy here.
