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This obsession with banning sexual content is bizarre to me. "It's because payment processors yada yada", I don't care. It's fucking weird and unnecessary and t
by Sakos 4y ago
This obsession with banning sexual content is bizarre to me. "It's because payment processors yada yada", I don't care. It's fucking weird and unnecessary and tiring. We all want porn. Why does a single culture get to push its insane puritanical values on all of us?
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y agoThere's a reason why MindGeek (the owner of all the major porn sites) is based in Montreal.
- tido99 4y agoWhich "single culture" is that? I disagree with censorship and morality policing as much as you seem to but opposition to porn is the norm worldwide across nearly every culture. A 2019 Gallup poll found that 61% of American respondents believed pornography was "morally unacceptable." That's nearly twice the share that thought smoking marijuana was immoral, and higher than abortion. Somewhere around half of American women support banning it altogether, as well as a not insignificant share of men: https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resources/lehmanfigure2-w640.png https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resources/lehmanfigure2-w640... (IFS is a biased source here, but the surveys they cite are not)
- Sakos 4y agoAnd probably 99% of those 61% watch porn. Polls aren't worth anything in regards to some topics.
- TeMPOraL 4y ago> Which "single culture" is that? Obviously, USA-ian. The poll you quoted and linked deals with what Americans think, which is kind of reinforcing GP's point: the current treatment of pornography around the world, especially on the Internet, is in large part a US protestant/puritan cultural export.