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Putting aside parenting choices, the two types of images (sex and violence) are not equivalent. Sexual images produce a physiological response... you get horny
by lurquer 6y ago
Putting aside parenting choices, the two types of images (sex and violence) are not equivalent.
Sexual images produce a physiological response... you get horny.
Violent images don’t really do much, maybe revulsion. But, other than that, not much at all.
A picture of a bullet-ridden corpse will not make you want to shoot people.
A picture of a naked chick having sex, on the other hand, will elicit a desire to have sex.
Apples and oranges.
To be sure, there are many who blame the ‘violence in video games’ and the like as the cause of crime. Those people are idiots... getting a good headshot in Counter-Strike gives you the exact same kind of thrill as making a basket or a hole in one ... nobody says, “Hell yeah! Now I want to kill someone!”
But, watching porn?
That’s exactly what it does... the imagery itself makes you go “Hell yeah! Now I want to fuck someone!” (Which, to most porn watchers, means fucking their hand.)
- BurningFrog 6y agoThe important difference between violence and nudity on film is that the violence is completely fake, while the nudity is actually real.
- throway98752343 6y agoCitation strongly needed. If anything, a bullet-riddled corpse should evoke sadness, not the desire to shoot more bullets into it or other things. Maybe you meant that watching one character inflict violence on another triggers audience feelings of aggression or fear, depending on which character we empathize with. What we watch undoubtedly causes all manner of emotions: horniness, elation, shame, fear, revulsion, pride, etc.
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- ChuckMcM 6y agoYou have overlooked that some people can get an arousal from violence. Perhaps not a large enough part of the population to worry about.