Pornography

If pornography were that undermining to human society, society would have collapsed long ago. It was not invented with the internet, you see. Roman soldiers already used to carry around dirty booklets and yet were generally quite successful in doing their job. Let (adult) people do whatever they like, as long as no abuse is involved.

Well, sexual media is encouraging sexual activites. It could have some impact on crime, I am sure. For instance, I heard from sex ed. that people often rape women because they think that women actually want to get rape, but they hide it or something. And media actually shows these things. And add the fact that when people wants sexual activities... they don't reason well, do they. Like when people are drunk.

Pornography is much like violent video games. In that people who are wired to be violent become more violent when they play those video games, and people who arent violent dont become any different.

Pornography does the same thing, if you are a healthy individual then most pornography will not effect you one way or another. However if you have a depraved mind pornography will send you into a place that may end up hurting others.

Personally pornography is bad for teenagers since autoerotica doesnt lend itself to hooking up. Then again if your one of those people that doesnt believe that teenagers should be hooking up then hand them a Hustler or something.

Pornography is bad because it pushes women into degradation. Rather than using sex as a positive force much of pornography stems from roles that make women mere objects, either to dominate or be dominated by. When one looks at pornography you dont wonder about the womans interests or how shes feeling today. No one just stares at the human doll that exists only so one can get off.

The fact of the matter is is that many porn stars dont see anything wrong with the roles they play for others. However, many fo these same porn stars were sexually abused while younger and thus pornography to them is just the way things are supposed to be. Also many porn stars also turn to drugs and alchohol later in life so the industry can't be too kind on them.

Now I know I just made a bunch of generalizations but in many situations they hold true. Im not going to say pornography needs to be banned, nor am I going to say those that view pornography are doing anything vile. What I am saying though is that people have to realize that pornography isn't just some harmless form of entertainment. It can affect lives in more ways then you imagine. Unfortunetely these seem to be mostly negative, and never positive. (Personally pornography to me is at best a waste of time.)

Great points, pinguin, dear Chilean friend...

Lol, sometimes you can't always satisfy your natural urge to have sex. So there's nothing wrong with looking at pornography to satisfy it. I think that people look way too far into pron. It's hardly a vice. Looking it at is for the most part victimless, assuming that the pron you are looking at is adult pron (and the adults who are in it consented to be in it).

Originally posted by pekau Lack of self control because they cannot satisfy natural urge. That is a problem for humanity.

No that's a problem for women...

Originally posted by Roadkill  -Child pornography is a crime, consentual sex is not.  -If you've read the works of Aristotle, Plato and the like(And I'm sure many of you have) you'll see that sex often comes up in the conversations(Especially Plato) and it's just a casual part of the conversation. That's not the way things are today. Sex is for some reason a taboo(Not so much anymore, but still) and I blame the Abrahamic religions(Though I have not done any extensive research) for making it so. Supression never works, as is evident throughout history and it only fuels the fire. Just look at all the revolutions that have taken place and how much more fierce the ones where the populous has been supressed.  -Now that sex is becoming less of a taboo all the supressed feelings are unleashed and pornography is one of the mediums. Now, let me make something clear, I do not think that pornography is wrong or immoral in any way, it's just that the view on sex in most pornography is scewed and that's not a good thing. Branding the porn industry as sleazy and immoral does not help either as it makes it a breeding ground for people who are sleazy and immoral. Anything that the populous wants but is supressed or looked down upon will always do this and it is never a wise thing. Take drugs for instance, making it illegal only makes it attract people who have no issues with destroying the lives of people. The same thing goes for prostitution.  -You cannot lecture the people on how they are to live their lives or what they are to like, you can only make sure that things don't get out of control.

We might in fact need less porn, at least in our western societies, but above all we need BETTER porn.

I.e. less insulting to both brain and other parts of our bodies. Really, especially about US porn, I never could grasp the need to constantly repeat "sl*t", "wh*re", "b*itch". And more people look as if they are in pain than having fun.

I've seen a lot of game-play in the European stuff (and at least acting as if they enjoy it), but not the constant, automatic and unthinking derogatory slurs about females having sex.
What's with that?

Originally posted by Joinville We might in fact need less porn, at least in our western societies, but above all we need BETTER porn. I.e. less insulting to both brain and other parts of our bodies. Really, especially about US porn, I never could grasp the need to constantly repeat "sl*t", "wh*re", "b*itch". And more people look as if they are in pain than having fun.

It adds to the excitement