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My knee jerk reaction is actually to agree with you wholeheartedly: sex is arousing and violence isn't. But if I can play devil's advocate, isn't it possible th

My knee jerk reaction is actually to agree with you wholeheartedly: sex is arousing and violence isn't. But if I can play devil's advocate, isn't it possible that if sex was more commonplace and less censored it would be less arousing? Sure there's a biological aspect, but I think a lot of sex is psychological. And if our threshold for what was considered "exciting" was brought down by a complete normalization of nudity and erotic content, wouldn't it not be that uncomfortable at all? Similarly, if we completely censored violence, wouldn't you be incredibly uncomfortable if violence showed up in a google search while you're presenting to peers at work? Personally, I'm inclined to think that the answer is yes. I think it's all relative. And I think our censorship is directly linked to the fact that it's uncomfortable.

50656E6973 8y ago
>isn't it possible that if sex was more commonplace and less censored it would be less arousing? Evidence of this is the female nipple.
nine_k 8y ago
If visuals of sex became more commonplace and less arousing, won't it make real sex less enjoyable? This is a testable hypothesis. We have a wide variety of cultures on Earth, from highly wrapped-up to those where almost complete nudity is seen as a norm. We could research and compare. It doesn't even take traveling away from the Western civilization; just compare the US and, say, Germany, with their vastly different sensitivity to depicted or real-life nudity.