I'm hearing a lot of ignorant crap on Catholic radio these days.

[Kangaroo Feathers]

While I won't go so far as to claim that it makes people violent, I think it's pretty obvious that constant exposure to graphic material results in desensitization to that type of material. The long term result is a blunted sexuality dependent on unreal and increasingly extreme imagery. Telling your wife or girlfriend that you're incapable of getting it up without porn can't be good for a relationship. And yes, it's not hard to find accounts of exactly that.

Over exposure to just about anything has negative aspects, pornography included, but that wasn't the claim in contention.

 

[Glaurung]

Over exposure to just about anything has negative aspects, pornography included, but that wasn't the claim in contention.

No, but I agree with him in essence. Pornography corrupts healthy sexuality. The outlet implicitly promised by pornography is a lie. It doesn't satisfy sexual craving, it rather morphs sexual desire into a pathetic and compulsive habit. That a habitual if not compulsive need to watch others have sex is considered normal by today's society is both sad and perverse.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

No, but I agree with him in essence. Pornography corrupts healthy sexuality. The outlet implicitly promised by pornography is a lie. It doesn't satisfy sexual craving, it rather morphs sexual desire into a pathetic and compulsive habit. That a habitual if not compulsive need to watch others have sex is considered normal by today's society is both sad and perverse.

I'm pretty happy with the idea "porn in moderation" is fairly benign. I'm open to evidence based arguments against this, but frankly, I find most of the breathless condemnations of porn and people who use it little more than prudish wowserism. If someone has an actual, clinical, compulsion to watch others have sex, that's potentially unhealthy and disordered, but I doubt many people have such a compulsion.

 

[Valjean]

Me, I find it odd that kids can watch crime and violence all day on TV, but Heaven forbid they get a glimpse of exposed breast.

 

[JJ50]

I think porn of any kind is disgusting as are the people who view it.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

Me, I find it odd that kids can watch crime and violence all day on TV, but Heaven forbid they get a glimpse of exposed breast.

Never mind the fact that for most of human history, "privacy" as we know it today wasn't a thing, and people would have sex literally around other people, were it was mostly considered something to be a little discreet about, but not something that had to be hidden from others, probably somewhat like we consider sneezing today. Indeed, in Middle Ages Europe, marriages among high born people were expected to be consummated in full sight of the wedding witnesses, as legal proof against later claims of non consummation. The idea that sex is something that needs to be hidden from children is a very modern conceit, and really only stems from Victorian times. I'm not suggesting people should go out of their way to have sex in plain view of everyone, nor that we should go out of our way to view it, but this idea that seeing other people being physically intimate is inherently damaging and dangerous is very recent, and contrary to the experience of the vast majority of human existence.