Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
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Captdon (08-08-2020),countryboy (08-08-2020)
Rather than the violent porn causing dating violence, don't you think it more likely that at least in most cases it's probably a matter of the people who are attracted to seeing it in a video are the same ones who would tend to want to do it in real life...whereas someone to whom it isn't any kind of turn-on would neither watch it or do it?
You made no mention in your OP - unless I missed it - of porn as it relates to the law, except for the dark web reference, and I don't want to take your thread off-topic; but in any discussion of an issue like this, where public approval vs. disapproval is being considered, the question inevitably arises, "It's hurting us as a society, so what do we do about it?"
In big screen Hollywood films you can see all the violence, rape, torture, murder and miscellaneous mayhem imaginable - although to be fair those elements are not nearly as pervasive as many largely non-moviegoing critics seem to believe they are. "Torture horror" films, like the 'Saw' and 'Hostel' series, have become an entire sub-genre. And as we were discussing in another thread, rape is certainly out there in many mainstream features. Is anything - at least anything legal - that is being depicted in Internet porn not also being shown, assuming they ever open up again, at the neighborhood cineplex?
Sorry if I began to derail your thread a bit, Polly. I guess I'm just temperamentally and professionally tuned to focus on the legal aspects of anything. I think I understand your point if it's that people - and probably, for whatever reasons, an increasing number of people - have developed moral objections to pornography quite aside from the religious. Obviously not everyone finds the same sex-related acts either arousing to watch or pleasurable to experience. Sex having such a strong influence on the human psyche, perhaps it's somewhat natural for people to develop a strong negative reaction to the idea that other people are "doing it wrong".
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"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
Retirednsmilin308 (08-08-2020)
Violent porn isn't particularly stimulating to your average man. I would think those who seek it out already have serious issues.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Captdon (08-08-2020)
Yes, I think physically abusing other people is wrong. Even if they're attractive and signed a paper and everything.
As to the dating violence correlation, I believe it's a little of both things: it's people who are so inclined to begin with, but also those inclinations being legitimized and reinforced in their minds by pornography.
You went on to question the difference between art and porn. The difference between pornography and art is context. Is there a narrative justification for why I'm seeing someone being abused on my screen or is it intended purely to be stimulating; a good thing?
You know full well that I'm not proposing a ban on R-rated films. I do wish that people wouldn't pretend that they can't tell the difference between those and the material they access on PornHub.
Last edited by IMPress Polly; 08-08-2020 at 11:37 AM.
Since most people - if polls are to be believed - don't consider pornography, let alone violent porn, to be morally acceptable, what if anything is to be done about it? Like with most things, warning our kids about it will most likely only result in their being more likely to want to check it out. What businesses that advertise on those porn sites - I wouldn't know personally, but I'm assuming they have advertisers? - would the average non-porn-viewer be likely to patronize and that might respond to threats of a boycott?
Did you see the 'South Park' episode where everyone's browser history is about to become available to the public, and panic ensues? Is it conceivable, or even technologically possible, that someone might someday be able to access an entire search engine's data base (if that's even the right terminology, and it probably isn't) and make a list of all the websites Polly visited last month and all the searches she typed in? You or I might not consider that a scary prospect, but how many millions of ordinary people would? Would the threat of someone's viewing proclivities being made public have a...um...softening effect on the market?
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry