sethnintendo said:
Ah see my group of friends is pretty open/given that it happens. There isn't shame of jerking off to porn. Now if that's all you did 24/7 I can see that as problem but that goes for almost anything. |
shikamaru317 said:
It's not too surprising to me that the percentage is that high. 68% of people in the US claim to be adherents to one of the religions that would classify pornography as a sin (Protestant Christianity, Catholic Christianity, Islam, Judaism). Meanwhile, there is this new SJW, woke feminist movement of people who are against pornography on the grounds that it exploits women for profit. |
Not only is pornography conceptually struggling for public acceptance a lot more than the media portrays, but in fact it has become less accepted over the last couple years.
2018:
43% say OK
55% say not OK
2019:
37% say OK
61% say not OK
2020:
36% say OK
61% say not OK
This appears to be a reversal of the previous upward trend in public support...which seems to suggest that the theory industry advocates have often advanced that people's lack of support for their business is owned to ignorance is bullshit. There have never been more Americans consuming pornography and Americans have never been less religious, and yet public support for porn appears to be waning.
As you might be able to tell by my tone, I'm among the industry's principled detractors, and my motives are not religious. (I'm an atheist.) I don't hold a lower view of people who consume pornography. It's made to be biologically addictive (at least for men anyway). I do have a low opinion of pornographers though.
The problems I have with the industry are numerous, ranging from the ready availability of content produced without the consent of the female participants (i.e. "revenge" porn photographs and videos, upskirting photographs and videos, videos of actual, non-simulated rape and molestation, etc.) to the simple reality that the wanton proliferation of porn since the turn of the century in particular thanks to the internet has made people's sex lives worse than they were before overall. Some of the more muted ways in which people's sex lives have worsened include the increasing commonality of erectile dysfunction among men (i.e. inability to achieve erection during actual sex) and the fact that only a minority of women today report "always or nearly always" achieving orgasm during sex today, down from 56% in 1999. Some of the less subtle consequences have included a dramatic uptick in strangulation of women during "consensual" sex, which has, in many cases, been wielded as a legal cover for cold-blooded murder. Today's young women often show signs of trauma from theoretically consensual sex because of how violent and abusive the standard practice has become. Is it really any wonder why younger people, and younger women especially, today are delaying sex and child-bearing longer and having sex less often than their predecessors at the same age despite all of this glorious sexual liberation they've supposedly been handed by the internet?
"A 2019 study published in Archives of Sexual Behavior also confirms links between porn consumption and “adolescent dating violence and sexual aggression,” showing that violent pornography exposure was associated with all types of teen dating violence. In fact, the study reports that “adolescents who intentionally viewed violent pornography were almost six times more likely to report sexually aggressive behavior than those who had not.”
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Today, a majority of scenes in mainstream porn contain both physical and verbal abuse targeted against the female performers. Psychologist Ana Bridges and her team at the University of Arkansas also found that 90 percent of scenes contained at least one aggressive act (if both physical and verbal aggression were combined). And that’s just the regular stuff. There is even harder material available (the so-called “dark web” material, which is illegal) for those who can afford it — snuff movies where the violence can reach a point of no return for the female victim, including death."
Not trying to say you have to agree with me, just pointing out that there are, in fact, actual reasons why many Americans object to a culture of sexual objectification and they're not all rooted in a religious insistence upon personal modesty. Label me whatever you want.
Last edited by Jaicee - on 08 August 2020
