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Edited: Please read and reply if you disagree with my view that porn reflects the greater social contract of society. An apathetic vacuum. (American? Capital
by mjevans 1y ago
Edited: Please read and reply if you disagree with my view that porn reflects the greater social contract of society.
An apathetic vacuum. (American? Capitalist? Global 'Elite'?) Society does not care about the people, actively seeking to use and exploit.
When things go badly who gets the pain? The common person, the modern serf. When things go well who takes the rewards? Their boss's boss's boss.
Porn is just a scapegoat, a symptom of the larger issues. Of the broken social contract for being part of a larger whole and everyone being better off for that collective work.
Though perhaps it's also a symptom of the failed liberation of society from outdated gender roles. Movements towards equality made some progress on empowering women, but didn't finish the job of shattering the yolk of stereotypical roles entirely to reshape the social contract for equality, inclusion, and freedom from old stereotypes. Echos of those old stereotypes, and new flawed ones, can be seen as the basis of the roles explored through exaggerated fiction even if it's erotic in nature.
- IAmBroom 1y agoOK, I'll bite. "Porn is... a symptom of the larger issues." Since male monkeys in the lab will willingly trade food for monkey porn, I think you have a pretty high hurdle to prove that societal issues cause porn. Also, you continue the article's unproven premise that "porn is bad". That's an opinion. And objectively, what few factual studies I've seen tends the other direction: ready access to porn correlates with lower sexual violence in countries.