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> I reckon a large proportion of people will opt out HAH! I had a friend one day in tears because her bf had some porn on his laptop. She was shocked, outrag
by TheAnimus 13y ago
> I reckon a large proportion of people will opt out
HAH! I had a friend one day in tears because her bf had some porn on his laptop. She was shocked, outraged etc.
She owned a dildo.
Some people have horrific double standards, unless people make a stand against censorship (unlikely) or their desire for porn (even less likely). This is only going to get worse.
- gaius 13y agoI was both bemused and disturbed when it seems the entire female population went nuts for 50 Shades Of Grey recently. On my commute on the train on the way to work, you would see them twirling their hair, chewing their lower lips, writhing in their seats, sometimes even (subconsciously I'm sure) rubbing themselves. Can you imagine what would happen tho' if a bloke was reading a porn mag or watching a movie on his laptop? There is a huge double standard in play here.
- rmc 13y agoCan you imagine what would happen tho' if a bloke was reading a porn mag That does happen. The likes of "Nuts" or "Zoo". Most of those lads mags are as pornographic. The double stardard is that if a straight woman has lots of sex, she's a slut who should be ashamed; yet if a straight man has lots of sex, he's a stud and should be congratulated.
- gaius 13y agoI have not read either of them but I suspect we may have different definitions of pornographic. Are we talking photos of actual sexual activity here, or just girls in their underwear? Do you consider Page 3 to be porn?
- pbhjpbhj 13y agoPornography is defined by intention of the producer or by the action of the viewer/consumer. Page 3 is porn because it's designed to be sexually titillating. A picture which was taken showing someone's feet, say, may have been taken without any desire to be sexual but nonetheless can be used as pornography. Nuts and Zoo and what have you have photos which are intended to be sexually enticing, ergo they're [soft] porn. Generally the demos can control [via the government, to an extent] the production of works intended to be pornographic but not the private use of pornography.
- dagw 13y agoIn what world is that a double standard??? Enjoying masturbation and sex toys while disapproving of pornography seems like a healthy and reasonable stance to take.
- highace 13y agoShe probably didn't like that he was getting it on without her.
- RyanZAG 13y agoI initially assumed your comment was a joke of some kind - but I think you might actually be serious? Could you explain how it's reasonable?
- 4ndr3vv 13y agoComeon, seriously? Do we need to talk about exploitation in the porn industry all over again?
- dagw 13y agoPornography is not created in a vacuum. There is a large industry surrounding it and, at least according to some, some of the practices of parts that industry is troublesome. There are also reasons to believe that watching porn might in some scenarios affect the viewer in negative ways that abstract sexual fantasy does not. Reasonable people can of course disagree to the scope and accuracy of the above objections, but I'd consider neither fundamentally unreasonable. Masturbation on the other hand is almost universally considered a normal and healthy part of adult sexuality. Basically just because someone might find porn degrading to women or morally objectionable, doesn't mean they in any way oppose sex and their own sexuality.
- RyanZAG 13y agoDildos are not created in a vacuum and has a large industry surrounding it - and a lot of the practices involved in that are troublesome too. Sweatshops? I'm sure there is pornography created by people who want to make it. I'm less sure there are dildos created by anyone who wants to be making dildos (the actual workers, not the boss). I'm sure some people would find a wife using a dildo as degrading to the husband and morally objectionable. Probably most of the middle east. That certainly doesn't give me the right to call it bad, though.