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I think pornography is going to be a significant selection pressure on the human race, much more than we realize. We're basically running a global-scale experim

by mjfl 8y ago

I think pornography is going to be a significant selection pressure on the human race, much more than we realize. We're basically running a global-scale experiment right now. Who knows what's going to happen in 10-15 years, when the first generation with firehoses of firehoses of HD porn just a click away their entire lives, comes of age to marry and have children. I think it's going to effect both men and women pretty badly. Men will be emasculated by the relative difference between the pornography they watch, the expectations porn creates, and the barren reality of their actual sex lives. I think this is going to disincentivize men even more from pursuing sexual relationships, even more than just having their desires pseudo-satisfied by the porn itself. Women are going to be stunned by the attenuation of men's desire for them, desire that came as an assumption to thousands of years of cultural norms (male-led courtship) and perhaps even instincts built into our genes. Porn may require/cause a genetic readjustment. We won't live long enough to see.

apocalypstyx 8y ago
I'm beginning to wonder if sex-related information has some affect of the 'universal acid' that dissolves too many of the fantasies we need to sustain ourselves. This seems to me one reasons society, as a whole, tends to hate sex workers so much: there's something about it that nakedly reveals the capitalist-market transactions we are all submerged in and can't escape from, and it reveals it in such way our only recourse is the instinctual reflexes of 'kill it with fire' and 'nuke it from orbit'. In regards to porn, or the discussions we have around porn, it often times seems as if we are on the verge of having to, or being forced to, articulate that not only can most people not tell the difference between reality and fantasy (how many people refer to an actor by a character's name, rather than at least, as 'the actor who played X'?). Instead, we come close to being forced to admit that not only is there no reality-fantasy divide, but that everything is fantasy, that everything is models in our heads, even our heads.
guskel 8y ago
I think social media and dating apps are going to have a much more deleterious effect.
bitL 8y ago
Video games are now more interesting than Hollywood productions; most TV shows/movies are borefests comparing to what you can experience in some advanced videogame with almost photorealistic graphics. Soon we will be able to deploy more AI-based goodies like completely replacing NPCs with people we know by providing single photos, realistically synthesizing their voices etc. At some point we will be able to directly stimulate brain's pleasure centers which might kill off drugs, porn, art and as a side effect, civilization. Our present time is already looking like a badly directed reality show; I believe it is going to be a lot worse, Kafkaesque and artificial.

by mjfl 8y ago

apocalypstyx 8y ago

I'm beginning to wonder if sex-related information has some affect of the 'universal acid' that dissolves too many of the fantasies we need to sustain ourselves. This seems to me one reasons society, as a whole, tends to hate sex workers so much: there's something about it that nakedly reveals the capitalist-market transactions we are all submerged in and can't escape from, and it reveals it in such way our only recourse is the instinctual reflexes of 'kill it with fire' and 'nuke it from orbit'. In regards to porn, or the discussions we have around porn, it often times seems as if we are on the verge of having to, or being forced to, articulate that not only can most people not tell the difference between reality and fantasy (how many people refer to an actor by a character's name, rather than at least, as 'the actor who played X'?). Instead, we come close to being forced to admit that not only is there no reality-fantasy divide, but that everything is fantasy, that everything is models in our heads, even our heads.

guskel 8y ago

I think social media and dating apps are going to have a much more deleterious effect.

bitL 8y ago

Video games are now more interesting than Hollywood productions; most TV shows/movies are borefests comparing to what you can experience in some advanced videogame with almost photorealistic graphics. Soon we will be able to deploy more AI-based goodies like completely replacing NPCs with people we know by providing single photos, realistically synthesizing their voices etc. At some point we will be able to directly stimulate brain's pleasure centers which might kill off drugs, porn, art and as a side effect, civilization. Our present time is already looking like a badly directed reality show; I believe it is going to be a lot worse, Kafkaesque and artificial.