Pornography harmful?

I understand your beliefs but don't you think theyre a bit strict? What if either the boyfriend or the girlfriend had to go away for a long time and the other was feeling sexually needy at home alone?

I'd also like to point out that couples even often watch porn together. I understand that a girl would get annoyed if all her boyfriend did was watch porn 24/7, but watching it occasionally seems fine to me.

 

Your logic would work.

In a perfect world.

My deceased priest once said, "You can look, but you can't touch", and I think he was right.

To restrict your companion to look and only look at you is to put an unnecessary restriction on that person's lifestyle. That doesn't mean I think it's ok for one of them to blast some hardcore whores on his/her computer, but keeping it to a private act when the companion is unavailable. There's a difference between "oh you'd rather look at her than me" and "don't wake me up in the middle of the night just to please your sexual desires". Also, tons of couples actually use porn to help their relationship. They realize that to completely deny instinct satisfaction is to add stress to your body/ Add on to that the fact that masturbation has proven to have health benefits, so doing it scarcely might actually help.

 

The only reasons porn could ruin relationships would be the following..

1. some virgins who've never had sex before anticipate it's going to be like a porno video and are all for it.. only to be disappointed later that it's not as scream-worthy as they thought. Sex is nice but it's not like the pornos. Setting expectations on how great sex is by relating it to pornos won't get anyone far. heh

2. someone is obsessed with porn and is watching that more than being with the person they are with and enjoying the real relationship. In that case, it's called the person doesn't even love the other anyway, so that's the hint to just leave and find someone else. These people are the sorts that basically treat their 'other' as something to have sex with and don't really care about the person otherwise but to feel the need of maybe some companionship.

3. Some mental people take things to extremes and say porno was an inspiration amongst other things such as horror movies or action flicks etc to have excuses for a demented mind. No one should be with those people either.

Otherwise, porn is just what it is and tons of people see it and it does nothing to ruin anything. 2 out of 3 of the top people listed are the types no one would want to be with anyway unless they are similar to them. (No, it's not the virgin heh).

Friends and I have even sat around and watched pornos just for the lolz because they are funny. Not sure why people ever take them so seriously.

 

Well, in my opinion, the guy can just get his mind off of it through a hobby.
I've done it for years.

And if they watch porn together...IMO that's creepy. xD

I was making an exaggeration, I suppose. That's how I see masturbation.
xD
What's disgusting about masturbation? I don't know exactly...it's just a turnoff to me. Me and my girlfriend have both gone this far without it. We don't want to do that sort of thing. I don't know; it's hard to explain.

 

How can you be sure that they don't do it? Alot of people lie about it, because they feel dirty, as Obsessed said. But everyone does do it at one point. They can either admit it or lie about it.

 

Not everyone. Just most people. There are still tons of people who think sex is "ewwy", and of course monks, priests, and things like that.

 

Yeah, right.

But seriously, alot of people do, even if they don't admit it.

 

Pornagraphy is just another way to help yourself, or you and your partner to get the blood flowing towards your reproduction area. It even gives the couple an idea or two to try. I don't see the problem with pornagraphy being on the internet and such, but I have heard it is on TV, public TV for that matter. It is harmful for a small child to watch that, but it seems that they even have websites where you can buy a DVD or two to watch it by yourself.
Broadcasting Porn on live TV is a little extreme in my opinion, even if you have to subscribe to it. It might be fun to watch, but not that fun.
Pornagraphy is to help your sexual prefrence. Like a vibrator, or lubracant. There's nothing wrong with it.

 

Porn has been around for centuries. One of its earliest forms was probably cave drawings of two stone age people in a sexual act, though I don't really know that much about the history of porn.
Porn can be watched by couples to try and create a sexual atmosphere and put the 'spark back into the relationship' which I can agree with. I also see it as a safer way of relieving sexual people feel, better than actually committing something as extreme as rape.

Porn can be harmful, but as much as anyother type of film , or book, or magazine, or any other media device can be.

I think it had something to do with a chain effect, something like:
Group of people make porno
Profits from porno returns to seller
Seller buys drugs from gangs
Gangs use money to by guns from different terorists groups eg the IRA
Moeny in terrorists pocket

I believe this was a politician who stated this, unfortunately the articles I read are sent in fro recycling quicker than I can refer to them. :/
Anyway, I could see where this guy was coming from, I mean it is possible for this to happen, but I don't believe that all porn is owned by people who buy drugs, or people who are in a gang. I think it was a man who believe in 'the tradational family, that loves and cherishes each other is the best' so I can'r take him as a reliable source.

I have to admit, masturbation would come up at some point in your life whether it is you or your partner that takes it forward.

Also, I have to say that if I was in a relationship, i'd rather say 'I have porn on my computer that I watch and masturbate too' than say 'I'm the guy in the pornos on my computer'.

 

Rape is not just done for sexual relief heh. Most of the time it is an aggressive crime where someone is lashing out. Porn doesn't solve that problem of someone being a moron that wants to claim dominance and act hostile to another human being because he can.

Porn isn't harmful. It's the people who are 'off' that watch it that are harmful and guaranteed, porn is not the only thing that 'effects' their feeble little minds.

-Anything- that can be sold, whether it's religion, sex, toys, games, etc can be used by terrorists, gangs, or black market profiteers for money. This is a stupid connection to make just at one thing when so many organizations, companies and such have used items to sell to others to support other nefarious purposes throughout ages.

Just because some porn may be used for such means does not mean someone who actually watches it and uses it for entertainment purposes is making such a choice to lead to terrorism etc. Money, in this case is the problem. Not porn itself. People who aren't even liking porn can figure out sex sells. People can and have also figured out that so many things that we humans like to watch or have sells. Again, the man is a simple-minded baffoon.

It's possible, but again, it's also possible that many items that make money are used for these practices.

That is a situation I can say I wouldn't really find myself in either as I would not really ever want to be in a porno. However, I also wouldn't really care if someone else ever was and as long as someone is an adult that can make the decision and all is legit, good for them.

 

I agree with the second one, but not the first one.
Me and my girlfriend haven't masturbated. Never have, never will.
I can honestly say that ._. Without lying.

 

Times change, people change, relationships change. THough I wish you the best in your relationship, I can't say that it will last forever, and maybe a future partner may ask you to commit masturbation as an arousal for them, some people do like it. THat's why I don't really think anyone could say for certain what they will do in the future. THough you still may never do it, i don't know.

It is true that most rape is committed for a dominance factor, I would also believe it to be a sexual satisfaction act for someone. I heard a disturbing story a few months ago of a girl that was raped at my school a few years ago, where she was tied up on one of the trees on the school grounds after school and was raped repatedly and left there till the next morning. I never really wanted to find out if this was real or not, I just left it there, but it always makes me feel...sad and ashamed, when I walk past it everyday. I just find the b******s who did it to be unsatisfied teenage control whores, I sometimes could imagine that a porn film may have lead them to commit the act.

 

For me, if I EVER masturbate, I want to have had sex first.
I want to be married and have had sex before I touch myself for a sexual purpose.
If I even ever do.
._.
Touching others is different.
Or rather, my partner.

 

Yay for purity. As if purity even exists. This is some of the biggest crap I've heard, and it isn't the first time. So, it's just stupid.

 

Me, kind sir-or-madam?
I'm not sying I'm pure.
I'm actually saying I'm not pure.
I'm also saying I don't masturbate because it looks disgusting. :lolface:

 

I was commenting about the opening post. I didn't even read your post. I was saying that people think they're pure and wholesome because the follow the word of god, etc, etc.

 

Oh sorry. I didn't mean any harm or disrespect.

 

No offense taken. I was just saying that I wasn't talking about any of your posts.

 

Porn didn't lead them to the act. They thought it would be cool and fun to hurt some girl badly through a despicable rotten act and get off while doing it. It's an act of dominance and cruelty where a group of boys got together and were like 'let's just do this! It'll be awesome!'. I'm not seeing how porn led them to do any of it. Realize that rape has been happening since the dawn of mankind.
Yes, sometimes there is suggestive rape in porn, but there's also the same effect in romance novels and other things. Really.. they weren't led by anything other than their own minds thinking up it would be cool to do the deed. We had a girl who was handicapped and in a wheelchair taken into a broom closet and raped by 3 boys and uh.. we weren't blaming porn for that either. Really, if someone is sick in the head, the person is sick in the head. It's time to stop blaming forms of entertainment for the idiocy, cruelty and/or madness of a few.

 

Yes, a conservative point of view. I thought as much.

Well, pornography isn't my field of expertise but I do think that most or at least a lot of mainstream porn is made and sold by professionals. It is, to them, a profession like any other and there is no proven or even logical link between these people and drug dealers.
Of course, there are probably a lot of scams hidden between honest porn dealers too, but that's nothing new and is abundant in other media as well.

There are of course many illegal practices in the porn industry: illegal categories such as child porn and bestiality, extortion, bootlegs and other forms of piracy etc. But it'd be wrong to accuse everyone who makes pornography of such transgressions.