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Porn is not a liberating force. It's like being mad at the government for making it hard for you to smoke cigarettes.
by brink 3y ago
Porn is not a liberating force. It's like being mad at the government for making it hard for you to smoke cigarettes.
- exe34 3y agoCigarette causes lung cancer and a bunch of other things.
- johannes1234321 3y agoEspecially also for bystanders. Porn is consumed mostly privately.
- p00b 3y agoRight, but also porn is often a commercial engine for tech innovation (even if indirectly, as in this case), which in turn can be leveraged as a liberating force.
- tavavex 3y agoPorn also doesn't give you cancer. It's pretty transparent that the restrictions on it originate from hyper-religiosity and conservatism, rather than some genuine concern about public health.
- tennisflyi 3y agoLiberating force is a bit too far but it’s not the demon people seem to think. It’s about all things in moderation. Porn = dopamine. Fast food = sugars/fructose and the ilk. SM = dopamine. Loot boxes = dopamine. Ad nauseam…
- thriftwy 3y agoCan I get a socially approved amount of porn then? Would there be porn rations?
- kibwen 3y agoJust like other addictive things (sugar, caffeine, video games, gambling), the "socially approved amount" is determined by a given individual's own limits on what they can consume while remaining a functioning member of society.
- tennisflyi 3y agoSome where in between not talking about it with your mom and dad but chopping it up with a friend briefly about whatever models is so attractive and had a great scene on whatever website
- andy99 3y agos/cigarettes/weed/ and watch how many people suddenly get angry. The problem is the government telling people what to do, period.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoIt is a canary in the coal mine litmus test for if you live in a free society or not. It is absolutely a liberating force. It's uniquely liberating right now since over half of all free/open sourced AI models have an NSFW or unaligned focus (nearly the majority in the diffusion model world). Without the power of Waifus/booru websites ran by hentai aficionados, a solid amount of the generative AI revolution in the context of text to image models simply would not have happened.
- keybored 3y agoPeople would be mad at the government for the exact same reason if they made selling cigarettes illegal.
- standardUser 3y agoHave you ever made your own porn? Very liberating.
- brink 3y agoHave you ever tried abstaining? You'll find you're not as liberated as you thought.
- logicprog 3y agoHow very Christian. We're all "slaves to sin" and "idols" where "sin and idols" just means "anything people like doing", because it's hard to stop doing something you like.
- brink 3y agoIt means anything that destroys and leads to misery. Hopefully you see that someday.
- logicprog 3y agoHow very droll and condescending of you. The Golden Rule is to treat others how you'd like to be treated, so I can assume you want to be treated in a droll and condescending matter in turn, so allow me to oblige: A: What is sin? B: Anything that destroys and leads to misery. A: Do X or Y actually destroy or lead to misery, or is it moral panic, pseudoscience, misery more caused by socially enforced guilt caused by the belief that X or Y is bad, some combination of the above? [B and A engage in an interminable discussion, and eventually B's Heritage Foundation links are exhausted] A: it doesn't seem clear that any of these things "destroy" anything, or inherently cause misery. B: Well X or Y must be bad, because they're sin, so they seem gross and bad to me. There must be hidden detriments that scientists are unwilling to admit, or just haven't gotten around to proving yet. Just wait, when you grow up you'll think just like me. A: maybe.
- standardUser 3y agoYou sound like a sad sexless man.