It is very easy to find sexual release with internet porn. More difficult with a real life woman. And therein lies the collapse of western civilization.
What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?
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Moralizing on the subject is terrible, but there are legitimate issues with respect to production of the content and exploitation.
Doesn't that apply to basically every industry in our modern capitalist economy?
The porn industry does have some specific practical issues. Probably the most is the reliance on very young actresses. Most start while under 20 these days. People that age are too trusting. They get put in bad contracts and don't know their legal rights.
For example, I had one girl come to me an say that a studio was claiming to "own" her real name, forbidding her from working under that name with anyone else. They had also not paid her. It boiled down to producers knowing they can bully these kids. The secrecy in which most of these girls wrap their work doesn't help. They are very hesitant to complain or reach out to lawyers.
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#14It is very easy to find sexual release with internet porn. More difficult with a real life woman. And therein lies the collapse of western civilization.
When (eventually...they all do) western civilization collapses I highly doubt porn will be the leading cause. I lean more towards it being bankers, lawyers and politicians.
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#15It is very easy to find sexual release with internet porn. More difficult with a real life woman. And therein lies the collapse of western civilization.
When (eventually...they all do) western civilization collapses I highly doubt porn will be the leading cause. I lean more towards it being bankers, lawyers and politicians.
I completely agree, but it won't stop young men from being used as a scapegoat.
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#16So kids are forgoing realworld sex. When did that become a bad thing?
My whole school life I was 'encouraged' to avoid sex, alcohol and every other vice at all costs. Going to a party on a friday night was a bad thing. Sex, whether through disease or pregnancy, would destroy your life. This is still the mantra, although nobody then told me that sex would send me to hell. That part is new. So why are we not surprised that kids today have found something else? Society tells them to avoid sex at all costs. Society is just now winning that conversation.
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#17The boys used to have smutty magazines hidden away, now they have their hidden explorer folder. Same thing - different times. The relentless moralizing about sexuality and pornography disgusts me more than any sexual practice I've ever heard of or seen.
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#18The site doesn't load any content for me? I only get a header and a footer. (Windows, Chrome, ABP)
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#20It is very easy to find sexual release with internet porn. More difficult with a real life woman. And therein lies the collapse of western civilization.
> It is very easy to find sexual release with internet porn. More difficult with a real life woman.
Very true... but I don't really see the problem.
>And therein lies the collapse of western civilization.
I suspect you are joking, but behind the joke, there's a very real, very disturbing attitude.
It's a double-standard, really; in modern times, masturbation is largely seen as a positive thing, an empowering thing for women. But not so for men; the same act is somehow shameful for men. It's like there's this attitude that a man's sexuality, to be honorable, must impose it's will on others. It's an attitude that I think is both destructive to the men in question and to those we interact with. It's an attitude that should have gone away with the idea of ownership of other human beings.