Porn has been with us since the beginning of every culture. Only the media changes. And porn has always made the changes happen.
Recent examples:
Porn fueled the demand for VCRs. Before them you had to go to a theater with sticky floors.
Porn was the beginnings of the internet for the masses, and is still the ONLY thing that constistantly makes money.
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A thing is not good or bad, right or wrong, a thing IS. What one does with said thing is determinate.
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Anonymous2005-07-03 13:38
Porn is:
1. Good for you. It makes you happy in the long term. Thus it's good.
2. Good for your family. If you are happy, they will be happy. If you jerk off to porn, you'll be less likely going to cheat.
3. Good for others. Porn creates thousands of job positions and helps the economy. Porn companies also pay taxes to sustain your country.
Therefore, porn is better than the church.
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Anonymous2005-07-03 14:12
PORN CAUSES CHILD ABUSE AND AIDS!!!
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Anonymous2005-07-03 14:13
There were actually these people who came to my health class in 9th grade and said that. Also said that watching porn makes you more likely to get involved in anal sex and makes you more likely to beat your partner. Also said it caused a rise in STDs (still figureing that out) and caused you to become an abusive father.
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Anonymous2005-07-03 14:14
And they were funded by the school too.
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Anonymous2005-07-03 17:28
>>6 watching porn makes you more likely to get involved in anal sex
Might be; it made me a lot kinkier, and I'm thankful for it. I'm now happier.
more likely to beat your partner
Just the opposite. The more perverted you two are, the more you understand each other, the more fun you have with each other, the more energy you burn together, etc., but in the end, motherfuckers will beat their partners regardless of how much porn they watch.
it caused a rise in STDs (still figureing that out) and caused you to become an abusive father
Hmmm... Yes, and it also makes people eat babies and makes Santa sad.
And they were funded by the school too.
Lol, sad...
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York!TnfC957mQY2005-07-05 20:08
I would actually like to see a complete shift of pornographic production from requiring the use of real models to animation, drawings, etc. While not as bad as prostitution, making porn DOES instill a slight emotional blunting in many cases. The problem in any case is exploitative. If we can do away with exploitation, things will be innately better. I'm not looking at this from an ethical standpoint, so much as from a concern for an expedient organization of society. But you have to account for mores and local values in any such analysis.
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Anonymous2005-07-06 4:46
The problem in any case is exploitative.
Only because society says it has to be that way. >.>
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Anonymous2005-07-06 9:26
Porn for the people. Public TV should air porn.
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Anonymous2005-07-06 10:23
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you can say the same thing about child porn...
I love anal sex(with my girlfrien or with my boyfriend ^_^;)
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York!TnfC957mQY2005-07-07 7:23
to actually answer the question: porn is a necessary evil (albeit a negligible evil if society can change). So it's two of the three. Not everyone can or desires to fill their free time with the typically noble pursuits held up by 19th century philosophers (science, scholarship), so we while our time away with diversions which are ideally enjoyed in moderation-booze, internet and porn. I would contend that religion is an unnecessary evil, and will have to be supplanted by equal mixes of intellectual masturbation (books, science), the arts, and harmless personal self destruction, all of which, in the right balance, expedite the human project.
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Anonymous2005-07-16 21:16
Porn's good, as long as you don't let it become something you do constantly, sitting alone in your basement for years.
This is what hentai does. I think it should be considered worse than real porn for that reason.
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Anonymous2005-07-17 18:30
So is hentai addiction a bad thing or does it help stimulate the economy enough to offset the negatives?
It's all about how cool/relaxed a culture is capable of being. Addiction automatically implies a negative connotation, so let's assume that you just mean 'most dudes in the country have a couple thousand pics of porn on their computer and some tapes'. The reason why it's not a PROBLEM in other countries is precisely because it's not a big DEAL. This can go for other things. Unfortunately, even if we were to do the arch-liberatarian (read: right) thing and do up gay marriage, pot, lowered liquor age and other stuff, there would still exist a valid, conservative argument against such changes-not because of 'right or wrong', as measured in either Christian terms or the more agreeable social ills, but precisely because it was our rotten fucking luck to be descended from puritans. Our culture literally might not know how to deal with such fun, and we could conceivably (not necessarily) exhibit higher rates of drug abuse/other social ills after various things are liberalized. At least at first; we might come around only after a generation or two (provided we're not scared into going back). Thanks a fucking lot, Johnathan Edwards.
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Anonymous2005-07-27 9:18
hey guys I fap to porn Nite and day. I spend at least 6 hours a day looking and fapping at porn. Im tired all the time and sleep for like 11 hours and I love my life. Sure lots of people would prefer to go with their girl friend. But the fact is Girl friends are too expensive so I prefer porn. Some day when i retire Im going to spend 11 hours a day jerking my wrinkly penis too porn. And I Will have lived the perfect life.
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Anonymous2005-07-27 10:22
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We have no culture... Really, our groups of people are so fragmentary that nobody really knows what would be considered right or wrong in certain social circles. I mean, look at 4chan, where lolicon is accepted almost as readily as what goes in /s/.
The US doesn't have a group ethos, like, at all.
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JJ2006-01-11 16:20
thanks everybody. i will no longer feel bad about porn. whenever someone says porn is bad, i'll pull all of this out of my pocket.
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Anonymous2006-01-11 17:34 (sage)
You bumped a half-year-old thread just to say that?
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Anonymous2006-01-11 21:30
bestiality is coooooooooool!
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Anonymous2006-01-12 0:53
I wonder if any hot chicks actually get dogs to s3x0r them in real life. I bet in real life only women like John's mom would do a thing like that for their own pleasure.
I know how to solve the problem of pornography. Eliminate sexual pleasure altogether. Make it impossible for any human to derive any sort of pleasure from "sticking it in," so to speak. Simple.