Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.
If we must have the Production Code, then I think the only way to use it effectively is to judge a film as a whole and determine whether its effect is good or bad.
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.
Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.
I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.
