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I've been thinking about this for a while and I see no non religous reason why parents would be upset about their children looking at porn. The only reason I can see is that some parents don't like their kids growing up too fast or whatever. Could someone shed some light on this? Is it just because of some stigma in American society against porn?
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I don't like the idea of children looking at porn for the same reason I don't like rape. The imagery in porn is disturbing to children who do not have the maturity to deal with it. It is a loss of innocence that is completely avoidable. Plus, children act out much of what they see on TV. As a society, do we really need children 6, 7, 8 years old having sex? It has nothing to do with America, at all by the way - I am not familiar with any culture on Earth that prides itself on high porn viewing by children. |
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There is a strong link between young kids and teenagers viewing porn and addiction to porn as adults. I link children and young teenagers being introducted to porn as the same as them being molested. Porn degrades women and the human body. Women are being viewed as sexual object and not people. |
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Aside from my personal judgements about porn, theres a very good reason why you don't want to spend too much time focusing on it. Porn and it's associated low-grade energy often comes with a package that includes other low-grade energy activities. If you put your attention there you will begin living your life at this low level and draw into your experience lots of "interesting" things which may not be to your liking. It's also addictive, hormone release in large amounts on regular basis, and you may find it difficult to function with clarity much like any drug addict. Parents are often against porn because they are attempting to protect their children from harm. Since there isn't a lot real positive about that sort of vibration I can't say I blame them. |
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Porn is healthy...would you want a load of 13-18 year olds going around having sex ALL the time? Pornography is the perfect counter-balance to this young-sex culture thats growing...have you seen childrens clothes these days! Alot of clothes from age 7+ up for girls looks like it should be on whores, and the boys...well...its not as bad for boys... Anyway I am certainly for porn. In the words of Dr. Cox. If you took the pron off the internet, there would only be one website left and it would be called "bringbacktheporn.com" |
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I think when porn or sex become isolated, weird things that we treat as inherently dirty, then they become addictions. Porn is no more degrading to women that men, and I certainly don't find it degrading towards humans. It's about relief and enjoyment without burden of having to impress/care for someone else. Teenagers will have sex whether there's porn or not. That's a deep-rooted biological desire. They'll certainly masturbate at least, which is safer, and I see nothing wrong with masturbatory aides. | |
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I myself am gratefully child-free. | |
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Here's a couple of paragraphs from A.C. Graylings book 'The Reason of Things' on the subject of sex and pornograph; Quote:
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In my mind, a healthy attitude toward sex and acceptance of pornography are two distinctly different things. The #1 problem with porn is that it doesn't reflect reality. Pornography typically shows only the best looking women, something that most women can't compete with. It also tries to pass off behaviors that would be degrading or offensive to many people as if they were completely normal. (Guys, how many of your women let you come on their face? Gals, how many of you would even allow this?) Morality aside, the messages being sent by pornography aren't realistic. It's essentially pure fantasy most of the time and has the effect of dumbing down your desire to socialize with real people, replacing it with a quick high spurred along by an unrealistic fantasy. Now I'm not saying you can't enjoy porn, but you have to realize what you're looking at and know that it can be very addictive. If it's starting to replace your social life, it's time to re-evaluate. |
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I guess I've always viewed beauty in a different way. What matters is that someone is beautiful/special to you, not that they're mainstream beautiful. Quote:
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Or the thought that they actually have sex. *yuck* | |
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Why do we forgive flaws in person, or why should we? We shouldn't unless we can be really sexually free with a person. And I don't think we can really be uninhibited and have fun until we like ourselves. I'd argue that an addiction to porn and preferring it over a real partner is a self-esteem issue. Quote:
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Actually my dislike for porn has nothing to do with judgements about sex and morality. Personally I don't see any reason why we should be sex-phobic at all. I'm not in for sex only after marriage, staying a virgin and all that. And I totally agree that teens are into sex, why would they not be? Especially when it's a major turning point in life. I'm coming from personal experience here when I say it's not a very satisfying focus to have in life. The time in my life when I was largely focused on sex and porn was a part of that was the time when I was least happy. Purely from the point of view that my relationships were based on sex alone and my partners while a match in that department had other less savoury habits that I found out about later and regretted. I'm all for sex, even any flavour of it that you personally want, but that alone is a bit hollow and can have a strong emotional impact that isn't very positive. I didn't say I agreed with parents being porn-phobic just that I understood the intention beind it. |
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