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What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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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.

I wonder how many problems in the middle east would be solved by bringing em' easy access to porn...

A lot. Even more by giving young men ANY access to women :-)

Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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So 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…

Sex is an important part of human relations, to forgo it is to leave out an important part of your personal development in my opinion.

I doubt too many people will become permanently celibate due to porn. But they might forego a random risky encounter with a stranger in favour of ten minutes with tube-something. That seems like a win.

Future sexbots, on the other hand...

Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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From my point of view online porn looks boring because it objectifies women too much. It’s just so mechanical nowadays. Whenever I happen to view porn from the eighties it looked much more natural. But then again I guess back then porn actors where only a few dozen and they knew each other quite well so this allowed some kind of intimacy to grow between them. Now porn has become a commodity, there are thousands of ac…

Indeed, intimacy and passion for each other is beautiful, but it is hard for two complete strangers to fake it. Sex is great, but it is an order of magnitude better when it is an expression of love. It is like eating a hamburger vs a fancy French meal. In both cases you satisfy your hunger. But the experience of getting there makes all the difference.

It is called acting, and the television/movie industry seems to have figured it out. Of course, you do not want strangers, but rather long-standing co-workers, but this is as true for porn as it is for acting and coding.

Even if, for some reason, intimacy and passion could not be faked, you could just hire couples.

Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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It might be worthwhile to examine this phenomenon in a larger context. For example, I know a girl who is obsessed with watching sticky sweet romantic shows and movies like "twilight" and "the bachelor". The romance portrayed in these shows is extremely unrealistic and I feel it gives her unrealistic expectations of romantic relationships. Certainly there are no shortage of young men smoking too much marijuana and watching too much internet porn and generally not trying in life who wonder why they can't find a female partner, but likewise there are a lot women who are overweight, unclean, disorganized and generally not exciting (or even downright repulsive) watching romantic shows or reading sexy novels and thinking their world should be that way.

The larger phenomenon is, in my opinion, media substitutions for reality. It's like to much sugar and causes certain individuals problems. But it's not a problem isolated to porn and young men.

Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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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.

I wonder how many problems in the middle east would be solved by bringing em' easy access to porn...

Interesting theory actually. And so simple (and as academics say "elegant"). You have to wonder why the US isn't raining down "propaganda porn viewing devices" instead of leaflets. (I'm serious a self contained unit with an LCD and enough memory and power to play some porn..perhaps with solar charging to boot.)

Of course the reason they would never do this has something to do with how porn is viewed by mainstream folks and how an aghast media would present this even if it was an actual practical solution to a problem. Would seem to be worth a try.

Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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I wonder how many problems in the middle east would be solved by bringing em' easy access to porn...

A lot. Even more by giving young men ANY access to women :-)

Ah yes. Operation "me loves you long time".

Ref: Full Metal Jacket (link is a nsfw video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12tce-THLUE

Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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lsc: your comment is marked [dead].

Oh man, I would find a shadowban, especially over something so overtly political so amusing! Of course, it's probably just a technical glitch.

(FWIW, this comment is not [dead].)

Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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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…

Interesting. I don't know the specific wording, but how much of a contract holds up if one side doesn't hold up their end (not paying the other party). I know it's all down to what's in the specific text, but.. certainly morally, when you quit fulfilling your end of the bargain, I don't feel much of a need to uphold mine. Yes, I'm older now, but I know I felt that way even as a kid.

That particular story just bugs me. Somehow they'd rather pay attorney fees against her for doing something she should be allowed to do, vs just using that money to ... pay her for services rendered in the first place. Touches a nerve, cause I had someone not pay me. But they had money to respond to my lawsuit, and in extremely great detail (20+ pages to detail all the ways they do not owe me anything for the several weeks I built their project and delivered it to their client).

Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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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.

There may be something to that, given porn in Japan has been prevalent for longer, albeit, pixelated and they are going through population contraction due to many people of reproductive age being kind of indifferent to real sex.

Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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It might be worthwhile to examine this phenomenon in a larger context. For example, I know a girl who is obsessed with watching sticky sweet romantic shows and movies like "twilight" and "the bachelor". The romance portrayed in these shows is extremely unrealistic and I feel it gives her unrealistic expectations of romantic relationships. Certainly there are no shortage of young men smoking too much marijuana and wat…

You might find "Don Jon" a good watch: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2229499/
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