porn is excellent, it's what the internet was invented for
honestly, I don't even know why real women even exist - they'll be extinct in about 15-years I would expect
porn is excellent, it's what the internet was invented for
honestly, I don't even know why real women even exist - they'll be extinct in about 15-years I would expect
of course anything can be porn in the sense that some people will get off on it- i was thinking some stuff involves nakedness for non-porn reasons and some stuff is generally perceived as existing purely for mainstream consumers sexual gratification.Originally Posted by felltir
...like videos of rainforest tribes-people, or women dropping sprogs, we saw them in school as minors. it probably wouldn't have been acceptable for us to have been shown the same degree of nakedness of people, in other contexts.
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I'm anti-porn, for exploitation and objectification reasons. I think the confusion comes from people mixing up pornography and erotica, and assuming that anti-porn means anti-sex, or that feminism means anti-sex. In a nutshell, if it diminishes the humanity of the subjects I am against it. If it celebrates humanity and sexuality there's nothing wrong with it.
Our habit of moralizing problems, merging them with intuitions of purity and contamination, and resting content when we feel the right feelings, can get in the way of doing the right thing. ~ Steven Pinker
It's not the action specifically, but the heart. I want to have commitment in the depths of my heart for a woman, and would hope for the same. It's not about a list of rules, but the underlying currents that ebb and flow us in one direction or another.
So yeah, even sensual scenes in movies cause me to divert my eyes. Unfortunately, I makes mistakes now and then, don't get me wrong. But as I said, it's the desire and the direction one travels that I feel is more important.
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"Are monks and hippies and poets relevant? No, we are deliberately irrelevant ... The office of the monk or the marginal person, the meditative person, or the poet is to ... go beyond the dichotomy of life and death and to be, therefore, a witness to life." -Thomas Merton
I will look at erotic art, as defined above by SomebodyElse, but not porn. Not that I am really interested in erotic art either, but I don't find it offensive. I find porn offensive. I wouldn't be able to say I was disinterested in porn, unless I had first tried it. After I tried it, I was able to know that didn't like it. (Same things goes for various drugs). There are so many real pretty women walking around and so many women flirting with me - I find this infinitly more arousing than porn, which is essentially a cynically-offered commercial product.
I wanted to rermark that, while there is nothing bad about homosexuality, since most depictions of women, in porn, are arranged by men, I have to consider it to be an essentially homosexual act, to be aroused by, or gratified with the help of, porn. Most men, including the most homophobic of men, don't seem to realize that, and go ahead and enjoy porn, pretending it is hetero. Usually it is not.
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ShakaHara: Sanskrit for vegetarianism. Shaka=vegetable. Hara=consumption, eating. With perhaps a few exceptions, I think we should be able to live well, without animal husbandry. Both plants and animals need to be fed. Although peas are naturally carnivorous, they can be fed with green manures, turned in cover crops, and composted plant matter; animal matter is not needed.
My boyfriend has seen it of course (he's 50 - how could he not have) but doesn't like it. When I moved in with him there wasn't even a racy magazine around. I've had others in the past who are similar, but went out with one who admitted it was an addiction.
It saddens me when people presume that all men like porn, strip clubs, and nudie mags. Some do, and that's their business. But it's not fair for others, like my boyfriend, to be painted with a brush that they feel is so far from their sexual identity.
I think it's all about what you allow in the parameters in a relationship. Personally, if I was with someone who had to watch porn to stop him from cheating, I wouldn't be in it, (not because of the porn but because he would obviously be easily swayed.)
PS: I must confess though....I was in a foot porn once....yeah...desperate times for the $$$$......but all they saw were my legs and feet.
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I don't have anything against it, everyone's gotta do their own thing.
The only time I've been to a strip club was right after I turned 18, just before leaving for boot camp lol. Haven't been to another since and I'm now 30.
I think it's impossible not to have seen porn, especially now that with one careless click of the mouse it can pop up on the computer screen whether you want it or not. I'm not gonna say I don't instinctively like what I see on the rare occasions when I come across something, but I don't have any nudie magazines or anything, and I don't seek out porn.
Aside from being in the National Guard, I do work at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas and we have the Moorea Beach Club, which is topless. When my job requires me to go in there for something, I gotta admit it's sometimes challenging to concentrate on my work.
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What's the matta with porn?
Not all men watch it ALL the time. And women watch it too ya know.
Usually if someone watches it all the time it's unhealthy. What matters is that a person doesn't confuse porn with a real relationship and the love and sex that comes with it. Once someone puts porn before a relationship, then you worry.
"When you don't get what you want you suffer. When you get what you want you still suffer, because you can't hold onto it forever" - Way of the Peaceful Warrior
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will then know peace" - Jimi Hendrix
+1, especially about women. Almost all the women I know between the ages 16 and 25 watch porn... myself included.
It's great to get off, but you know it's not really that... artificial in real life.
