Erotica is written or auricular or visual celebration of human sexual enjoyment. Anything that involves force is pornographic and should be prohibited. Erotica should arouse sexually but in a way that wants to bring happiness to yourself and others. It needs to involve some kind of love or goodness. Erotica will not corrupt a person unless that person is already corrupt in which case erotica is a good thing that is abused. You can’t condemn what can be abused for anything can be abused.
Is it wrong and unhealthy to savour erotica? Everything sexual is wrong and should be made illegal if it is for it fills the mind with erotic fantasies. Erotica does no harm for unlike pornography there is no degradation or turning people into depraved monsters as violent television programmes do. Those who blame it for turning them into practicing perverts have heard of masturbation. They are kidding themselves.
Religion says, "Appearing in erotica is being treated as a body for the titillation of others not as a being to be valued for being a person." It doesn't have to be as long as it is about the beauty of the body and sexuality. And if that is demeaning so is liking a person for being friendly for you like them not for their qualities but for YOUR perception of their qualities and not just because they are persons for if they were nasty you would not like them. You can gain pleasure from a person without desecrating the dignity of that person. When you like another person it is only yourself you like for you invent your perception of them that you like. If you think of the person in the naughty pictures as a mere object the only evil involved is in your attitude which you need to change not in looking at the pictures.
We have to permit degradation to check more serious degradation or the degradation of a bigger number. If we ban "dirty" pictures and if it is true that they are always degrading then we will be degrading far more by taking away their fun and degrading the models by putting them out of work. They say it is not unbecoming for a husband to make love to his wife when he does not like her - you cannot like everybody all the time - which shows the hypocrisy of their carpings.
Humanism will use erotica to attract people to our beautiful purified Atheism and get the precious message of godless redemption across to the world.
