She doesn't care and understands it's pretty common. And again, I probably spend 20 minutes total a month watching porn. It just never mattered, I suppose. We've never actually watched together, though we talked about it. She doesn't, as far as I know. She tells me she doesn't.
Of course, it's very different. I guess my point was just anything can negative effects on people. Violence on TV, lots of things.
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I think that's obvious.
What's more intriguing to me is determining the things that should be regulated for their adverse effects and to what degree. Violent TV and video games, for example. And shouldn't that be a parental prerogative, anyways?
When would you be okay with a child beginning to watch porn? The law says 18 -- but we can have sex much earlier (in some states).
How can we possibly predict when a kid becomes sexually aware? Or an adult, even?
Again, just food for thought.
Of course it should be a parental prerogative; so should internet usage and websites being visited. I don't see how porn is drastically different than a number of other things out there.
I really don't know when I'd be ok with a child beginning too watch porn. Not until at least teens, probably.
We can't predict that stuff.
zitothebrave (02-28-2015)
Sorry bedell, don't believe in slippery slope arguments. They have no backing other than circumstantial evidence.
Porn is arguably one of the smallest medium that objectifies a person. We constantly see objectification in advertisements on a daily basis. Buy this cologne, get ot bang the chicks Brad Pitt bangs, buy this bra get to be Adriana Lima.
Lemme guess though, you think that kids shouldn't learn about sex, should be ashamed of their bodies, and so on so forth. I mean that worked so well for the puritans. None of them had shotgun weddinsgs. Part of being human is to be objectified as primarily we're all looking to mate, it's our primal goal. Man with the genes most attractive for child bearing bangs the woman who's got the qualities of bearing said child. Not objectifying women/men is a newer idea and it's gonna take a long freaking time to overcome.
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yeezus and I both admit to watching porn, but zito is arguably the resident Porn Kingpin of ChopCountry.
Forever Fredi
It's not so much defending it, as promoting education. When you tell someone they can't do something, they'll want to do it. It's in our human nature. We're curiosu folk. And if something is taboo, it can add a certainl level of arousal (for lack of a better word) that makes you want to experience it more and more and heightens your satisfaction when you do it.
Porn certainly is bad, has many bad aspects of it, as do many of the subversive ways that humans are sold. For a different example, pick on soldiers, they're told they're heroes, put on platforms, they're part of a team, not individuals, so on so forth. These things allow them to kill with reckless abandon. It shields them from the horrors they're committing because of how things are sold to them. If you want to address the issues of objectifying women, you can do that, but just pointing to porn and saying, there it is. Is not a great way of doing it.
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You defend objectifying a woman? Reducing her to merely something to get off on.
And you are what, in your twenties? You've got no idea of the scars that can come. The images you won't be able to get out of your mind. They are there now and your wife to be will never make the grade.
And when you are jacking off looking at a video on your phone, while your wive withdraws further and further into her hurt, remember this warning.
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