Question :
Osho,
What is your view of pornography and what are your views on the new morality of sexually free societies like Sweden?
I will not condemn. I appreciate it. Sexually free societies are not degraded, rather, they have come to face the facts of life honestly. They are more honest than so-called moral societies, which are basically dishonest. If sex is a fact then you must take it as a fact – no beating around the bush.
And pornography is an art, unless your mind is perverted. If your mind is perverted, pornography becomes a disease. Otherwise it is a simple art. If I paint a beautiful flower you appreciate it, so why not appreciate it if I paint a nude woman? It is just as beautiful. And if a naked flower is beautiful, a naked woman or a naked man is also beautiful.
But a naked flower will not create any attitude in you of condemnation, whereas a picture of a naked woman will – not because it is pornography, but because the whole culture bas been anti-sexual.
Sweden is really the vanguard of the new morality that is developing. It is not a degraded society.
-Osho, “The Eternal Quest, #5”