Are we in the same thread? The OP nor the article make any mention of money.
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Porn Exploits People
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Are we in the same thread? The OP nor the article make any mention of money.
LightofTruth
Well-Known Member
Dreamers.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Or an appreciation and enjoyment of something that's fun and natural.
LightofTruth
Well-Known Member
Maybe we're not in the same thread. here is a copy the thread I'm in.
"Bodies are not commodities to be used, abused, brought and sold or viewed as merchandise for one’s selfish pleasure."
I count 4 words there that refer to money. How many do you count?
LightofTruth
Well-Known Member
So the idea of porn is a way to say to the world, "Look, this is fun and natural"?
Is the world trying to claim that sex is not enjoyable or natural?
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
There goes most of modern industry...
Skwim
Veteran Member
You do realize, do you not, that the reason porn exists is do in a large part to cultural prudery. Excessive propriety and modesty brought on by the Puritan sense of indecency, which has been kept alive for the last 400 years by like-minded Christians. That were it not for this sin driven propriety that makes X, Y, and Z so loathsome they would have never attained the interest they now enjoy. Make the bare female ankle scandalous, and guess what men want to see? Make bare female breasts taboo and guess what men want to see. Make the sight of two people engaging in sex off limits and guess what men and women want to see. This isn't to say this is the only factor that gives rise to pornography, but it's certainly a major one.
So, if you want to blame pornography for exploiting people, then you might want to start by looking in Christianity's back yard.
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InChrist
Free4ever
Did anyone bother to read the article or just react?
“Every day Pornhub is host to pornographic material that features racism, incest, and violence against women. The site is also known to have hosted videos of child sexual abuse and sex trafficking victims, such as in late 2019 when it was revealed that Pornhub hosted videos of a trafficked teenage girl being raped.
This was not an isolated incident.
For years, until late 2019, Pornhub hosted content from and promoted GirlsDoPorn as one of its featured partners even after requests were made to have the content removed by the women shown in the material AND while GirlsDoPorn was in court facing charges of trafficking (and more) from over 20 women that were used in the production of its material.”
Porn is addictive, changes brain chemistry, causes loneliness, damages real relationships and intimacy.
This isn’t about prudishness, my view is that porn is harmful and exploits people.
4 Ways Porn Use Causes Problems
“Every day Pornhub is host to pornographic material that features racism, incest, and violence against women. The site is also known to have hosted videos of child sexual abuse and sex trafficking victims, such as in late 2019 when it was revealed that Pornhub hosted videos of a trafficked teenage girl being raped.
This was not an isolated incident.
For years, until late 2019, Pornhub hosted content from and promoted GirlsDoPorn as one of its featured partners even after requests were made to have the content removed by the women shown in the material AND while GirlsDoPorn was in court facing charges of trafficking (and more) from over 20 women that were used in the production of its material.”
Porn is addictive, changes brain chemistry, causes loneliness, damages real relationships and intimacy.
This isn’t about prudishness, my view is that porn is harmful and exploits people.
4 Ways Porn Use Causes Problems
Okay, so you take four words that refer to money to mean "it's all about the money." So maybe since the OP says "wake up" and "realize," it's all about enlightenment?
See, we both can mine words.
Now would you like to discuss the actual topic or continue to try to defend your superfluous comment?
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
Viewing naked bodies in context of sex activates innate responses as a way of inducing sexual behavior. So the idea of porn is to activate these responses to satiate sexual desire.
A perfectly natural and healthy human experience.
Can't it be both?
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
The "idea" of porn isn't to say anything "to the world"; it's a form of entertainment.
The problem is that you've been indoctrinated to feel shame and guilt about sex and nudity by ancient superstitions, so displays of it make you feel insecure and angry.
Bad things happen in every industry. Instead of banning porn, which will only make such things worse, increase regulations and awareness and hold sites to better account.
Porn also allows people a sexual release, a legal way to get off f you have an illegal fetish, has made rape numbers drop and overall made people happy. Porn only causes loneliness and damage when people use it overmuch. Anything can damage relationships if it gets in the way. People's mothers can damage relationships, or their pets, or their hobbies.
Skwim
Veteran Member
I believe that without porn my marriage would have ended years ago. I discovered porn, learned from it and revitalised a boring relationship. To me and my husband that makes it very healthy and most definitely not selfish
As for the actors, most are in it for enjoyment. Whats wrong with that?
InChrist
Free4ever
I find your argument no more convincing than saying because the Bible speaks against gluttony this is one reason why so many people overeat and have weight or health problems.
I've heard the claims before.
None have been well reasoned or evidenced.
But I'm fair & balanced.
I watched neither your video nor any porn before commenting.
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InChrist
Free4ever
Yes, can be both.
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
InChrist, my question would be is how is porn different than a married couple doing the same thing in bed?
They both choose to do what they do. Both do things people would never do in bed. Some would think both sides would be a bit crazy like bondage and all of that mess.
What about marriage and money makes one action, say intercourse "holy" while the other exploitation?
There is a weird taboo and uncomfortable feeling when sex is involved between two adults. I'm not quite sure why yet the same people watch murder mysteries and Disney characters nowadays being shot by "bad guys." Yet, we still watch them.
We look at two men kissing who aren't exploiting their bodies etc as bad but a male and woman kissing in the same circumstance, relationship thought, and faith as good. And that only has to do with one's sex and nothing else.
These things: "money, genitalia, movie type/genre" are the ones that make something good and another thing a sin.
Kind of like saying, money used for donation to the church makes that money good but that same dollar used for a hit man to kill a child, that money is bad (people don't even give money to some of the homeless because they would use "their" money for bad deeds) then go across the street and get a McDonalds meal before evening dinner.
How do you justify actors in one scenario as bad and another as good when they both get paid, both actors, and both go home to their family, pay taxes, and go roller skating on sunday nights?
I'm not sure how to justify why sex is good in one situation and bad in another when the action is the same regardless the context.
(Murder is murder regardless the justification)
InChrist
Free4ever
It is possible there are exceptions, as with anything, Yet, I still believe overall porn is detrimental to people.
Pornography addiction: A neuroscience perspective
And from the statistics I have heard and read (which I don’t have a link to at the moment) over 80 percent of women do not find working in the porn industry enjoyable.