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Re: What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]

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Post by ryandv »

krapp wrote: post #24
pmlnr wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a much bigger question why, such a completely natural and normal thing, like nudity, in the supposed to be educated - at least in basic biology - 2025, be made and exclusive thing. The intro of the 1986 Once upon a time... Life animation series, that's the best human biology educational program that exists to this very day, starts with scenes many would classify as nudity - but it's also essential to the topic a…

>It's a much bigger question why, such a completely natural and normal thing, like nudity, in the supposed to be educated - at least in basic biology - 2025, be made and exclusive thing. Western culture and its morals around sex, gender and nudity are founded on the patriarchal taboos of the Abrahamic religions, whereby human nudity in general, and female nudity in particular (because women are the source of original…

> shift against the progressive norms of prior generations (and a moral panic about "groomers" and "pedophiles")

Not altogether an unreasonable concern, considering that the International Lesbian and Gay Association at the United Nations was literally allied to NAMBLA and other pro-pedophilia groups, for 15 years [0].

It's only when the Americans threatened to take away the money that something was done about it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILGA_consultative_status_contr...

Re: What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]

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Post by 9x39 »

danbruc wrote: post #140
fullshark wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m sure you’ve seen sexual content you wouldn’t want your children to see. A lot of pornography is also for lonely horny men and gives children false and even unhealthy impressions of human sexual experience.

There is of course sexual content that is inappropriate for children but I did not advocate for letting children see any sexual content out there instead of an anvil onto the head of a cartoon character. But I think it would be better if the husband comes home and has sex with his wife instead of shooting her in the back.

>but I did not advocate for letting children see any sexual content out there

No, you did.

>Would it not be much better if children see people having fun fucking each other

Re: What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]

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Post by danbruc »

9x39 wrote: post #152
danbruc wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is of course sexual content that is inappropriate for children but I did not advocate for letting children see any sexual content out there instead of an anvil onto the head of a cartoon character. But I think it would be better if the husband comes home and has sex with his wife instead of shooting her in the back.

>but I did not advocate for letting children see any sexual content out there No, you did. >Would it not be much better if children see people having fun fucking each other

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Re: What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]

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Post by spacemadness »

nrvn wrote: post #124

> The image attached to this blog post is a stock photo of a nude pregnant woman. Absolutely nothing sexual. maiesiophilia (pregnancy fetishism), maschalagnia (armpit fetishism)…

You obviously didn’t read their article then because they already made your point in a following sentence.

Re: What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]

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Post by macintux »

dcow wrote: post #136

I’m sorry… all these comments about societies banning nudity and graphic violence are really skirting the point. In the context of modern age regulation, at a social level, nobody is arguing people at large should not have access to violent and sexual content. This isn’t about religion oppressing women’s sexual freedom. The argument is that children should not have unguided access to adult content. On top of that mos…

> In the context of modern age regulation, at a social level, nobody is arguing people at large should not have access to violent and sexual content.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/project-2025-por...

> Just five pages into the foreword by the president of the far-right Heritage Foundation think tank, the proposal stakes out an uncompromising position that porn should be banned, porn producers and distributors should be sent to prison, and tech companies that circulate it should be shut down.

Re: What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]

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Post by spacemadness »

ta1243 wrote: post #104
louwrentius wrote: post #69

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It's very hard. Teenagers will teach each other to circumvent any of this within seconds. It's as old as the internet. But maybe it would be healthier if you discuss this topic with your 12-year-old. The reality is that they'll be able to find any kind of pr0n within seconds when they has access to an unfiltered computer or phone. At age 12 it's also expected that you start the transition from a child to an adult, so…

They're really not interested yet now and get annoyed when other kids in the class post it It's about being able to control and monitoring in the real world, where unlike the 90s the "family computer" isn't the thing in the corner of the living room. There's 6 more years before they're an adult, 4 more years before they can legally have sex, and typically at least 4 years before they start heavy petting, plenty of ti…

You might want to rethink your perceived timeline for how sexuality works in practice for teenagers if you’re waiting to talk to them on schedule. Source: was a teenager.

Re: What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]

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Post by spacemadness »

jermaustin1 wrote: post #28
homeonthemtn wrote: post #5

This is a relic mindset from the start of the Internet. The website itself even visually reflects that. Is there a marginal grey area around adult content? Yes. But beyond that margin is a vast ocean of explicit, intentional adult content. As someone who grew up in both the decentralized "new" era of the Internet, and now lives in the hyper localized algo driven version of it... It's all shit. And I'd never want my k…

> And I'd never want my kids to be exposed to it. That is why parental controls exist. As a close to middle aged adult without any kids, why do I have to hand over my ID to protect YOUR kids? But that isn't want this is about. The people who don't want porn around aren't doing it because of the kids, they are doing it for some religious/cult belief. If you look into the history of how law enforcement has protected ch…

I guess we’re overdue for another satanic panic style crusade from people who live in fear and use children as their shield.

Re: What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]

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Post by spacemadness »

diggan wrote: post #72
mnw21cam wrote: post #43

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I agree. Different people have very different thresholds for what is "sexual", so it's incorrect to make a blanket statement that it is not sexual. It's sexual for a decent proportion of people - just the fact that this article was tagged NSFW shows that.

> It's sexual for a decent proportion of people - just the fact that this article was tagged NSFW shows that I don't think it shows that at all. Any content not suitable for a work computer in the typical office gets a NSFW label, it's literally in the name. An image of some war-time event can be as NSFW as an image of a woman removing her clothes, and at the same time neither images can be sexual.

Yeah it’s certainly not safe for work. Should it be? I mean, ideally yes. In practice? Hell no. I don’t need Karen from accounting coming up with her own reasons why I’m looking at a naked pregnant lady even though I know there is nothing wrong with it.

Re: What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]

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Post by krapp »

jbd0 wrote: post #146
krapp wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The context of this thread and the linked article implies that we aren't discussing every civilization on Earth. I apologize for not explicitly having stated that, sometimes I forget that this is HN, where nuance and context go to die. Norms against nudity within Western societies - excluding non-Western societies such as in China, Japan and India - are based on Abrahamic religions. It is true that other non-Western…

> in the US breastfeeding is considered implicitly sexual and thus allowing it in public spaces is controversial No it's not https://thelactationcollection.com/blog/breastfeeding-in-pub...

Note that I said it's controversial because it's considered implicitly sexual, not that it's illegal. The article you posted literally mentions the social stigma I'm referring to.

Re: What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]

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Post by zakki »

danbruc wrote: post #90

Why is this discussion always about nudity and sexuality? Would it not be much better if children see people having fun fucking each other than seeing people murder each other in countless ways? Why is it more acceptable to show Wile E. Coyote trying to murder Road Runner by dropping anvils onto him than showing Bugs Bunny and Lola Bunny fuck each other? Ignoring for the moment that children probably find the former…

I believe if we took that path (children see people having fun fucking each other), we will see more 9yo pregnant girls going to school. Are you ready as a parent?
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