Most modern pornography is not art, and using a selective definition of Leo Tolstoy's version of art and John Dewey's theory of art as experience, we can determine that pornography is nothing more than superficial entertainment that exacerbates the social inequalities of gender roles in society. Despite this, pornography has the potential to become art and therefore should not be censored. It is important to define pornography, as well as Tolstoy's and Dewey's definitions of art, to lay the foundation for my thesis. To begin with, in this article, the term “pornography” refers to anything that “is sexually explicit material designed primarily to produce sexual arousal in viewers.” Furthermore, pornography is available in a variety of media, be it literary, photographic or video. For this work I will analyze pornography available in video and photographic formats, as well as former workers of the pornography industry. For Leo Tolstoy, for something to be considered art, it must evoke some form of emotion that acts as a means of unification and communication for humanity. As long as the artist's intent hopes to unify, which is a positive necessity for the human experience, "art begins when a person, with the aim of uniting another or others to himself in one and the same feeling , expresses that feeling through some indications." For Tolstoy's theory, the idea of ​​intent is fundamental to the execution of art. If something is not made with the intent to evoke raw emotion, then it is not art. Tolstoy believes that art is “a means of union between men, uniting them in the same feelings and indispensable for life and progress towards the well-being of individuals and humanity”. When a...... medium of paper ...... pornographic in nature was perhaps created with the intent of eliciting love and intimacy, or celebrating an uncommodified sexuality, then it certainly could be art. Stewart Homes, a British author and pro-pornography critic, once said that “art is nothing but licensed pornography.” I strongly disagree, because today's modern pornography is very different from art. It not only degrades human minorities, but prevents humanity from moving towards perfection. When we analyze pornography through the artistic definitions of Leo Tolstoy and John Dewey, we can understand that most porn is nothing more than entertainment designed to arouse physical sensations and not emotions. Even when this is true (as is almost always the case), pornography cannot be censored, because it will always have the potential to become aesthetic in nature..