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Well, it's a good thing that I never said that.

• tomxor 7y ago
  Oh really, so why does the subject of sex not benefit from these qualities of fiction?
  • xwkd 7y ago
    I never said that it didn't.
    • tomxor 7y ago
      > [...] Porn is to sex education as war movies are to combat training. > If I learn what "sex is about" through porn [...] > It seems limiting to "explore your sexuality" in the novelty of visual and auditory stimulation [...] These arguments are all against the fictional nature of porn as a substitute for sex or sex education... which no one is suggesting, so it's a straw-man. Porn is not a replacement, it is both less and more, just like other fictions. The only time the OP suggested it as a replacement is where there is no alternative, which is perfectly reasonable. War films are not a substitute for combat training because they are not supposed to be. The remainder of this argument is for the value of fiction, which seems a little unnecessary.
      • znpy 7y ago
        > The only time the OP suggested it as a replacement is where there is no alternative, which is perfectly reasonable. Thank you, you got my point. > War films are not a substitute for combat training because they are not supposed to be. The remainder of this argument is for the value of fiction, which seems a little unnecessary. War movies can depict war as something awesome as well as something awful. Needless to say, there are movies that depict war the former way and movies that depict war in the latter way. The very same way, there are many kinds ("genres") of porn that illustrate sexuality in many ways.