Is it not pornographic to have "Songs of Songs" in the Bible?

Thank you for the question and thank you Irv for answering the question.

Then he said to them all:..If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. (Luke 9:23-26)

The people of other faiths surely raise this question and they love to play around Book of Song of Songs. However, we do not need to justify our faith to others. It is not on their approval that Bible becomes Word of God and Jesus as our LORD and Savior. For we should not be ashamed of Word of God because;

The words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life (John 6:63)

The answer is simple, if Bible has to be a code of life, then it must have instructions to every aspect of our lives. It should guide us spiritually, socially, and morally as followers of God the most High through our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.

1. "Love your wife in the same way you love your body and your life."(Ephesians 5:28-33)
   
2. "The husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife."(I Corinthians 7:3-5)
   
3. "Rejoice in your wife all your life. Let her breasts satisfy you. Be captivated with her."(Proverbs 5:18-19)
   
4. "Tell your wife how captivated you are with her body."(Song of Solomon 4:7; 7:1-8)

If Bible is to be a moral code of life then Song of Songs play an important role in living a happy true married life.

Book of Song of Songs is detailed description of;

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

The man and his wife were both naked and they felt no shame. (Genesis 2:24-25)

First of all Song of Songs is only for married couples. It does not promote immoral sexual activity. It is a dialogue between King Solomon and his wife or husband and a wife. It only guides how a man should become one flesh with his wife.

God created man and woman and all the sexual parts too. People of other faiths do agree with this. Now God created sexual parts and so He knew why He created them. If He guides a man how to treat, love and treasure his wife, what is wrong in it?

Lastly, God commands us

"Do not be captivated by other women."(Proverbs 5:20)

How a married man can be captivated by other women? The answer is simple if that man looks down on the body of his wife and treasures some other woman's body. Song of Songs simply tells a man how to treasure his wife as a favor of God and how to be captivated by his wife's body.

God bless you

I searched Internet and found this information on Wikipedia

Title
The name of the book comes from the first verse, "The Song of songs, which is Solomon's."

"Song of songs" is a Hebrew grammatical construction denoting the superlative; that is, the title attests to the greatness of the song, similar to "the lord of lords", "the king of kings" or "holy of holies" (used of the inner sanctuary of the Jerusalem temple). Rabbi Akiba declared, "Heaven forbid that any man in Israel ever disputed that the Song of Songs is holy. For the whole world is not worth the day on which the Song of Songs was given to Israel, for all the Writings are holy and the Song of Songs is holy of holies." (Mishnah Yadayim 3:5).

Authorship
Solomon as author

Some people translate the first clause of the title as "which is of Solomon", meaning that the book is authored by Solomon. Rabbi Hiyya the Great said Solomon first wrote Book of Proverbs, then The Song of Songs, and afterward Ecclesiastes. Rabbi Jonathan said Solomon first wrote The Song of Songs, then Proverbs, then Ecclesiastes. The Talmud, however, states the order of the canon, listing Proverbs first, then Ecclesiastes, and then The Song of Songs.

Solomon as audience

Others[who?] translate the first clause as "which is for Solomon", meaning that the book is dedicated to Solomon. It was common practice in ancient times for an anonymous writer seeking recognition for his work to write eponymously in the name of someone more famous. Some[who?] read the book as contrasting the nobility of monogamous love with the debased nature of promiscuous love, and suggest that the book is actually a veiled criticism of Solomon, who, according to 1 Kings 11:3, had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.

God

Another approach to the authorship is that offered by Rashi, consistent with allegorical interpretations, rendering the narrator "he to whom peace belongs", i.e.: God. The Hebrew name of Solomon, Shlomo, can also be inflected to mean the constructed form of the noun shalom, peace, which through noun declension can be possessive. This means that the author is in fact Solomon, but he narrates the book from the perspective of God, who is conversing with the Jewish people, his allegorical bride.

Other

Twenty first century linguistic work, including re-examining the dating of early Hebrew poetry, according to evidence of dialectic variation, has been applied to the Song by a number of scholars from different traditions. Noegel and Rendsburg, for example, conclude as follows.

"The Song of Songs was written circa 900 BC, in the northern dialect of ancient Hebrew, by an author of unsurpassed literary ability, adept at the techniques of alliteration and polyprosopon, able to create the most sensual and erotic poetry of his day, and all the while incorporating into his work a subtext critical of the Judahite monarchy in general and Solomon in particular."

Interpretation and its use

According to Jewish tradition in the Midrash and the Targum, the book is an allegory of God's love for the Children of Israel. In keeping with this understanding, it is read by Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews on Shabbat eve, to symbolize the love between the Jewish People and God that is also represented by Shabbat. Most traditional Jews also read the Song on Shabbat Chol HaMoed of Passover, or on the seventh day of the holiday, when the Song of the sea is also read.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_Songs