Poll: Pornography, good? bad? something in between?

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

Basically, my views on this matter can be best summed up...

Spoiler: By this legendary comic

 

[Dragonclaw]

My wife and I watch porn together, picked up quite a few "hey, let's try THAT" tricks and it's been a fun and healthy part of our sex life when we use it.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

To be viewed for enjoyment purposes only its fine. But it is in NO way a realistic portrayal of sex, plus on a whole gender stereotyping viewpoint it is VERY flawed.

Yeah, a man can't fix the plumbing that fast.

I watch it for the plot.

That has to be a terrible existance...
"Can I borrow a cup of sugar?"
"Fuck me NAO!"

OT: I watch it to simply fap.
Even though I'm pretty sure the potrals of sex are completely bollocks.

 

[lacktheknack]

Even separating my views from my religion, I'm still very suspicious of activities with actual addictive qualities.

 

[Naeras]

Statistically there's less rape in states where porn is legal, compared to the states where it's not.

captcha: words of wisdom

 

[Evil Smurf]

Statistically there's less rape in states where porn is legal, compared to the states where it's not.

captcha: words of wisdom

wait.....porn is illegal places? We should be so lucky!

 

[Laser Priest]

Plenty of people enjoy it, that's enough to justify it's existence to me.

Personally, I think it could use some more dragons, though.

Captcha: "Window Dressing"

That seems appropriate...

 

[Rule Britannia]

I could live without porn, no problem. Though, if I were told "don't watch porn for the next three months" I think I would cave, although, if it was said "you can't watch porn for the next three months" (as though it was impossible for me to do so) I would have no problem dealing with it.

It's a billion dollar industry, I don't pay for it and I never will but some people do.

So...

It's a good, great, thing but in moderation. Watching porn for 2-3 hours a day is messed up IMO.

 

[Guffe]

Not a problem, Watch it very very seldom but if someone wants to watch more feel free, not aproblem for me. Plus it's work for pretty many people, but when you start getting addicted it's bad, like with everything else.

 

[Nexxis]

Personally, I don't watch it, so I don't care, but I don't have anything against friends that do watch it.

 

[Colour Scientist]

My wife and I watch porn together, picked up quite a few "hey, let's try THAT" tricks and it's been a fun and healthy part of our sex life when we use it.

Same here, except replace wife with boyfriend.

I think that anyone in a serious committed relationship has no need for it either.

Hey, just because you don't like it doesn't mean you have to ruin it for the rest of us!

OP: Porn is good but the industry tends to churn out the same kind of stuff, I've explained my view before but basically there needs to be more variety. I veer towards amateur stuff rather than some guy jackhammering a girl's vaj/mouth/ass and finishing on her face while she pretends to have like 8 orgasms because it's really not fun at all.

I would love to see a woman actually have an orgasm for once but women are more openly watching it now so maybe that will change soon enough.

 

[Zetatrain]

That is true.
I think simulated child-porn (Like maybe CGI or something) might be helpful. I mean, it would never compare to the same thing, but I imagine a-lot of people would be able to live with that for fear of being caught and stigmatized by their community.

Not in the case of child pornography, because in the case of pedophiles, you don't want to encourages their sexual thoughts, you want to suppress them altogether or change them to acceptable fantasies.

Therapy for child abusers generally involves gradually shifting their fantasies away from childre, and to acceptable fantasies. If what you claimed was correct, such an approach would never be used for therapy.

Reasoning the other way around, watching child porn keeps pedophilic desires alive and active, and thus increases the risk of committing sex crimes.

The difference here is that unlike most other sexual orientations and preferences, pedophilia can't be practised consensually without doing real harm, by definition. So channeling the desires to prevent crimes out of sexual frustration won't help.


Also, on a side note, the mods take a rather dim view of advocating child porn to any degree. Someone has gotten banned off R&P for saying drawn child porn should be legal for exactly the same reason you just mentioned. Just a bit fair warning.

Well if there is an outlet to relieve sexual frustration then why wouldn't be helpful. I mean, hasn't it been proven that places where porn is legal have lower sex related crimes? If so then wouldn't the same apply to child porn (CGI or hand drawn of course)? Now granted you're right that this doesn't discourage pedophilic desires and as long as those desires exist there is the chance they will go for the real thing. However, is one's sexual orientation something that can actually be changed?

The way I see it, sexual desires build up with or without porn, so making it illegal seems to do more harm than good, IMO.

 

[TwiZtah]

To be viewed for enjoyment purposes only its fine. But it is in NO way a realistic portrayal of sex, plus on a whole gender stereotyping viewpoint it is VERY flawed.

Actually, I think porn objectifies men more. You see the whole woman, how she writhes in pleasure (Usual sex, not strange shit), while you only see a cock going in and out of her slip-n-slide. That is objectification if anything.

 

[MetalMagpie]

There are stats that suggest there may be a link between an increase in distribution of porn and a decrease in sexual assaults on women. (Specifically, areas of the USA which have seen the most rapid expansion of internet access over the last two decades have also seen the sharpest decline in the number of rapes.)

Not conclusive by any stretch of the imagination, but still interesting. Maybe if perverts can "get their fill" using internet videos, then they don't feel the need to go outside and prey on real women?

As a woman, I approve of pretty much anything (within reason) that lessens the chance of me getting attacked!

 

[lacktheknack]

Even separating my views from my religion, I'm still very suspicious of activities with actual addictive qualities.

Wait till you hear about this new thing all the kids seem to be trying these days: they're called videogames!

...which don't have addictive qualities beyond that of clubbing, movies or reading a really damn good book.

Besides, I can break away from video games easily. I know this because I've done it for months at a time, and then didn't fall back on gaming for a while after I got home from wherever I was that had no games.

From what I can tell from people I know who watch porn, they do so compulsively, even if they don't feel a particular urge to do so. Don't tell me I'm wrong, tell my desperate friend that he's wrong.

 

[Lovely Mixture]

Sex is beautiful, or at least I consider it so, especially when it is drawn. Eroticism is not good or bad.

...which don't have addictive qualities beyond that of clubbing, movies or reading a really damn good book.

You'd be surprised, see those cases Korea? (and more recently Taiwan). Just a matter of the person involved really, anything can be addictive and perhaps even dangerously so.