True. Pornography can lead to desensitization. But we live in a desensitized world. If a doctor’s priority is to euthanize a healthy depressed patient (16 thousand patients were euthanized in Canada alone in 2024) instead of trying to help him by offering a good book to read or a glass of whiskey, not to mention decocking 10 year old kids cause they believe they’re in a wrong body, then pornography seems to be the least of our problems.
An awful lot of the trans madness is actually fueled by porn from what I've read. Also, Okeefe did an undercover thing a while back where an executive at pornhub (or somewhere similar) admitted to pushing the deviant stuff on people that weren't even looking for it.
The article on this subject that I have been waiting for! I worked in youth mental health. Pornography was widely used, and at the epicentre of problems involving sexual violence and coercion, body shaming, bullying and rape culture.
As is the case with nearly all of America's problems today, we can thank our Supreme Court for unleashing mass porn on Americans of all ages. It began the "job" as far back as the 1950s, in so many words ruling that pornography is protected by the Ist Amendment, arguing that nobody could really define it any way. Justice "Whizzer" White sarcastically dissented by saying "I may not be able to define it, but I know it when I see it." So does everybody else.
How are you going to enforce a ban on Greece’s or Italy streaming of porn to US? There will always be sources that will stream this stuff to anyone who has a computer or smartphone.
Your ban would not be taken seriously. It would be easily evaded.
Is this written with AI? How about if porn is such a serious topic you use your own brain to write about it rather than outsourcing your thinking to a computer?
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I didn't think it was. In those other guys' defense we can all get a little paranoid about trying to spot the AI anymore. I'm like that with AI narration on YouTube videos. I believe I might have falsely accused a less expressive narrator of being AI before. lol
I think that pornography is a symptom, but only that. Look at Rococo art. Look at Renaissance art. It's full of deliberately, very public, pornography. Most kids caught sight of Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" long before puberty.
I'm part of the first generation to be born into a world with the contraceptive pill. Prior to the arrival of this pharmaceutical, "Sex" was about reproduction. Sure, everyone had sex for pleasure, but that's not where it sat culturally for the majority. Even glamorous starlets such as Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Collins confessed that their earlier marriages occurred because of the social constraints regarding sex. In a later era they wouldn't have taken that step.
The contraceptive pill turned sex into a recreational activity in the public mind. It's no accident that the invention also coincided with the decriminalisation of homosexuality across The West.
Yet again, Big Pharma did its best to dismantle the natural for profit... with wholly foreseeable consequences. Even at the time, "The Permissive Society", was a phrase coined to describe what others called "Free Love".
Don't get me wrong. I love what the pill has allowed us to experience. However, to attribute today's ills to "pornography" is to not see the wood for the trees.
It causes the sexually addicted to have more and more trouble achieving satisfying relationships. they constantly crave novelty. This leads to more and more extreme deviation from a loving monogamous relationship.
Speak for yourself mate . Ain't watched that crap and absolute filth since well , forever ,!! Not my world and I'm not about to take responsibility for other idiots who do or have anything to do with them !!;
So children, adolescents and young adults who first view pornography because it pops up in their internet searches for things totally unrelated to pornography are "guilty"? You may not realize how common this is and the profound effect that it is having on real world relationships.
It is now very common for young, and not so young, women to report that their male intimate partners start to strangle them without ever asking whether the woman would want such a thing because the men are watching pornography which makes them think that women do enjoy being strangled as part of a sexual encounter.
The violent, hateful-towards-women pornography on the internet is orders of magnitude different from pre-internet pornography. It bears no resemblance to the Playboy centerfolds of the mid 20th century or French postcards of the 19th century, or even the most violent, misogynist depictions of sex in the past. Videos with audio which depict violent sex have a wholly different effect on the human nervous system.
You are correct that "love, desire, and human dignity will never be associated with porn".
That is why we should all be concerned with the enormous amount of time which so many men and some women spend viewing online pornography, conditioning themselves to feel and think that what they see and hear is acceptable and desirable sexual expression.
As for young people, many now in effect get their sexual educations from online pornography, often viewed on their cellphones. Girls think that they need to go along with what they see in online pornography and boys think they are being shown what it is to be a "real man" sexually.
This is an important message. Thanks for the reference.
Not all pornography is like this- it’s possible to have wholesome and healthy pornography consumption, and there are fine companies and individuals that do such work. But the overwhelming emphasis is imo where the money is- on promoting domination, female pain and degradation, cruelty, anonymity, roughness, subliminal homoeroticism, and male pleasure. Love, simple caring, preparation, protection, relating, allowing time for female body arousal via foreplay are antithetical to what sells to young men. So it’s no surprise that an industry catering this way to moral necrosis is going to do great evil to participants and customers.
The issue with pornography is that it objectifies people for the sake of selfish pleasure even if it is not the hardcore sort. It is a problem in kind, not degree. It is a thing which is inherently wrong.
I don't expect society to eradicate all pornography as I am not an utopian ideologue, but we aren't talking about gas station nudie mags. We are talking unlimited access to vast amounts of pornography of all types, "good"/less extreme and bad. That has to be restricted in big ways, especially when the average age of pornography exposure approaches the age of 10. In the end, there is no "good" pornography to be exposed to, especially not when it's clear that it affects children the most and for decades then on!
It's similar to how in places where prostitution is legal, human trafficking is more prominent. Having "good" legal prostitution does not prevent bad prostitution; if anything it only increases it. Same with "good" pornography. It's tied up with the bad. To your point however, if societies can manage a trade off where wide access and extreme forms of pornography can be successfully restricted while leaving access to moderate forms in less easily accessible places (like physical media at an adult store), that is clearly the right path forward.
True. Pornography can lead to desensitization. But we live in a desensitized world. If a doctor’s priority is to euthanize a healthy depressed patient (16 thousand patients were euthanized in Canada alone in 2024) instead of trying to help him by offering a good book to read or a glass of whiskey, not to mention decocking 10 year old kids cause they believe they’re in a wrong body, then pornography seems to be the least of our problems.
They are tied together, along with a bunch of other diseased notions.
An awful lot of the trans madness is actually fueled by porn from what I've read. Also, Okeefe did an undercover thing a while back where an executive at pornhub (or somewhere similar) admitted to pushing the deviant stuff on people that weren't even looking for it.
It’s central to some of those problems though.
The article on this subject that I have been waiting for! I worked in youth mental health. Pornography was widely used, and at the epicentre of problems involving sexual violence and coercion, body shaming, bullying and rape culture.
I knew that the internet would lead to evil
Porn became popular before the internet.
As is the case with nearly all of America's problems today, we can thank our Supreme Court for unleashing mass porn on Americans of all ages. It began the "job" as far back as the 1950s, in so many words ruling that pornography is protected by the Ist Amendment, arguing that nobody could really define it any way. Justice "Whizzer" White sarcastically dissented by saying "I may not be able to define it, but I know it when I see it." So does everybody else.
And how would you expect the Supreme Court to enforce a ban prohibiting porn on all platforms today?
50 years ago it was much easier to jail and fine creators of the garbage.
But today? How are you going to enforce an internet ban with multiple world platforms available to distribute the hardcore smut?
The SC was right in the 1950’s.
The same way our government enforced a ban on criticism of Covid regulations. As did the rest of our so-called democracies.
Yeah?
How are you going to enforce a ban on Greece’s or Italy streaming of porn to US? There will always be sources that will stream this stuff to anyone who has a computer or smartphone.
Your ban would not be taken seriously. It would be easily evaded.
Same way Europe bans American non-porn that it doesn't like.
What porn company do yu work for?
Added to this, the extent to which pornography destroys marriages. (Speaking from experience).
Is this written with AI? How about if porn is such a serious topic you use your own brain to write about it rather than outsourcing your thinking to a computer?
Why would you think it was? I asked the AI if that article was written with AI and it didn't think so.
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I didn't think it was. In those other guys' defense we can all get a little paranoid about trying to spot the AI anymore. I'm like that with AI narration on YouTube videos. I believe I might have falsely accused a less expressive narrator of being AI before. lol
Why didn't they delete True Settler's then? What characteristics are you seeing that make you sure it was written with AI?
Not saying I disagree with you. I'm no authority on it. I just wonder what you guys are seeing?
I think that pornography is a symptom, but only that. Look at Rococo art. Look at Renaissance art. It's full of deliberately, very public, pornography. Most kids caught sight of Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" long before puberty.
I'm part of the first generation to be born into a world with the contraceptive pill. Prior to the arrival of this pharmaceutical, "Sex" was about reproduction. Sure, everyone had sex for pleasure, but that's not where it sat culturally for the majority. Even glamorous starlets such as Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Collins confessed that their earlier marriages occurred because of the social constraints regarding sex. In a later era they wouldn't have taken that step.
The contraceptive pill turned sex into a recreational activity in the public mind. It's no accident that the invention also coincided with the decriminalisation of homosexuality across The West.
Yet again, Big Pharma did its best to dismantle the natural for profit... with wholly foreseeable consequences. Even at the time, "The Permissive Society", was a phrase coined to describe what others called "Free Love".
Don't get me wrong. I love what the pill has allowed us to experience. However, to attribute today's ills to "pornography" is to not see the wood for the trees.
Without a sincere belief in God and His word, there are no moral boundaries.
It causes the sexually addicted to have more and more trouble achieving satisfying relationships. they constantly crave novelty. This leads to more and more extreme deviation from a loving monogamous relationship.
Speak for yourself mate . Ain't watched that crap and absolute filth since well , forever ,!! Not my world and I'm not about to take responsibility for other idiots who do or have anything to do with them !!;
love, desire, and human dignity will never be associated with porn. Is the dissosiation of responsible sex and an unrealistic expectation
And no Internet has nothing to do with this . This started since before the Romans. The guilty party is the user
So children, adolescents and young adults who first view pornography because it pops up in their internet searches for things totally unrelated to pornography are "guilty"? You may not realize how common this is and the profound effect that it is having on real world relationships.
It is now very common for young, and not so young, women to report that their male intimate partners start to strangle them without ever asking whether the woman would want such a thing because the men are watching pornography which makes them think that women do enjoy being strangled as part of a sexual encounter.
The violent, hateful-towards-women pornography on the internet is orders of magnitude different from pre-internet pornography. It bears no resemblance to the Playboy centerfolds of the mid 20th century or French postcards of the 19th century, or even the most violent, misogynist depictions of sex in the past. Videos with audio which depict violent sex have a wholly different effect on the human nervous system.
You are correct that "love, desire, and human dignity will never be associated with porn".
That is why we should all be concerned with the enormous amount of time which so many men and some women spend viewing online pornography, conditioning themselves to feel and think that what they see and hear is acceptable and desirable sexual expression.
As for young people, many now in effect get their sexual educations from online pornography, often viewed on their cellphones. Girls think that they need to go along with what they see in online pornography and boys think they are being shown what it is to be a "real man" sexually.
https://culturereframed.org/
100% correct.
This is an important message. Thanks for the reference.
Not all pornography is like this- it’s possible to have wholesome and healthy pornography consumption, and there are fine companies and individuals that do such work. But the overwhelming emphasis is imo where the money is- on promoting domination, female pain and degradation, cruelty, anonymity, roughness, subliminal homoeroticism, and male pleasure. Love, simple caring, preparation, protection, relating, allowing time for female body arousal via foreplay are antithetical to what sells to young men. So it’s no surprise that an industry catering this way to moral necrosis is going to do great evil to participants and customers.
The issue with pornography is that it objectifies people for the sake of selfish pleasure even if it is not the hardcore sort. It is a problem in kind, not degree. It is a thing which is inherently wrong.
I don't expect society to eradicate all pornography as I am not an utopian ideologue, but we aren't talking about gas station nudie mags. We are talking unlimited access to vast amounts of pornography of all types, "good"/less extreme and bad. That has to be restricted in big ways, especially when the average age of pornography exposure approaches the age of 10. In the end, there is no "good" pornography to be exposed to, especially not when it's clear that it affects children the most and for decades then on!
It's similar to how in places where prostitution is legal, human trafficking is more prominent. Having "good" legal prostitution does not prevent bad prostitution; if anything it only increases it. Same with "good" pornography. It's tied up with the bad. To your point however, if societies can manage a trade off where wide access and extreme forms of pornography can be successfully restricted while leaving access to moderate forms in less easily accessible places (like physical media at an adult store), that is clearly the right path forward.
Are you and Holly Harp related? I ask because your post is exactly 100% correct too.
Your first sentence killed the rest of your reasoned composition.