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Don't get me wrong, raping girls is not normal. But how is that different from any other illegal business? It is the same thing with drugs? people who smoke ca
by polote 6y ago
Don't get me wrong, raping girls is not normal.
But how is that different from any other illegal business? It is the same thing with drugs? people who smoke cannabis are aware of people in Colombia being killed for them?
Making porn legal and accepted is the way to go to solve those problems. Not making it forbidden. The more you will try to make it illegal or to hide it the more harm you will do to those girls.
I'm not sure pornhub is encouraging people to upload rape videos, child porn on their platform, and actually it is pretty rare to see that kind of content on pornhub. Contrary to telegram, periscope, vk, and small porn websites
- haram_masala 6y agoFirst of all, it’s not just women appearing in pornography. Some people believe that pornography is inherently harmful; that viewing it degrades the viewer and psychologically harms them. Making pornography “acceptable” would be accepting this harm, inflicted on countless millions of people, in order to protect the relatively tiny amount of people who perform in it.
- polote 6y agoHow many many of the people telling this message publicly watch at porn privately?
- haram_masala 6y agoProbably a similar percentage as the people with drinking problems who will tell you to abstain.
- doubleunplussed 6y agoAnd we call such people "puritans" and don't let them dictate our moral norms.
- haram_masala 6y agoWe also call them “behavioral psychologists.”
- drew-y 6y agoYou're not really addressing their point. Some people believe that drugs are "inherently harmful", but an outright ban or "war on drugs" made the problem worse. It pushed drugs to the unregulated black market. The same would happen if you were to ban porn. Demand would still be there, people would just be forced to go onto the unregulated black market to satisfy their demands. Meaning it would make the situation much worse. If porn were to remain legal than the government can resolve these issues by proposing regulation to mitigate the abuses.
- haram_masala 6y agoPlease read my post a bit more carefully. I’m addressing the “acceptable” part, not the legality.
- drew-y 6y agoAgain, his point that making porn more "acceptable" means that people and our government will start having open conversations about it. This means making clear rules that both acknowledge the right of these sites to exist while also ensuring actors are treated fairly. Sticking your head in the sand like we have been doing has helped no one.
- gamblor956 6y agoAre you aware that smoking cannabis is absolutely nothing like rape? and moreover is already legal in many U.S. states where cannabis can be grown and sold legally??? Also, Porn is already legal.* And it is already accepted by large portions of the population. Making porn more acceptable doesn't end the rape problem.
- farias0 6y agoI don't know, I think that if we treated it as less of a taboo we could popularize regulations and unions and stuff like this.
- scpedicini 6y agoYeah, kinda reminds me of the legalized prostitution that is heavily regulated by the government in the Netherlands.
- hackinthebochs 6y ago>Are you aware that smoking cannabis is absolutely nothing like rape? You severely missed the point. The comparison was between the relatively lack of outcry over cannabis smokers who presumably enable atrocities carried out by drug cartels in Colombia and elsewhere.
- sushisource 6y agoCoke users might have been a more apt analogy given weed is increasingly legal around the world, but, yeah. Wooosh
- gamblor956 6y agoNo, did not miss the point because you didn't make one. Cannabis wasn't grown in Colombia until very recently; cocaine has always been it's primary drug export, and unlike cannabis, cocaine has not been legal in the U.S. (or most of the West) during the lifetime of anyone alive today. If you had said cocaine from the beginning I might have agreed with your sentiment if not the specific details, because porn has enabled sex trafficking and CP and other heinous crimes. But you clearly meant cannabis, not cocaine, and so your statement doesn't make any sense.
- vangelis 6y agoPersonally, I prefer to mainline my uncut Colombian cannabis. Columbia has legalized cannabis and is looking to legalize cocaine to undercut the criminal enterprises.
- mrleiter 6y agoJesus christ. It's "not normal"? What kind of absolutely detached statement is this? Porn is legal in many countries, especially in the USA and Germany, two big markets for creation and consumption. Yet, still a lot of women are raped. Your logic is just completely wrong.
- oweqruiowe 6y ago> Making porn legal and accepted Just to add another perspective, Scott Santens had an interesting reply[0] to a tweet AOC had about legalizing sex work > Sex work is work, but as long as poverty exists it's impossible to tell who is doing it voluntarily and who is doing it because they feel they have no other choice in order to make a living. It's another reason unconditional basic income is so important. [0]:https://twitter.com/scottsantens/status/1339053954144014338?s=20 https://twitter.com/scottsantens/status/1339053954144014338?...