[PLUG-TALK] Porn on the Net...
Michael Robinson
plug_1 at robinson-west.com
Tue Oct 27 20:58:44 UTC 2009
Consenting adults? Pornography has nothing to do with "consenting"
adults. With Net pornography, one is never talking about just 2 people
in a private encounter. If someone manipulating your base desires
so that you want something you wouldn't otherwise want is consent,
then consent doesn't mean much.
As far as the Sarah Palin comment Jeme, that was a stupid response.
Selling of children in Alaska to the porn industry does happen,
but Sarah Palin is obviously not one of the people selling.
That is right up there with me saying that Obama is a terrorist.
Let's play with this consent idea, because clearly it is being used
as an excuse to not do anything about porn among other things. If
you consent to being murdered, is it okay for a person to kill you?
When the interest rate on your credit card spiked, did you say that's
okay because I consented to it? If we are talking about addictive
agents, doesn't consent kinda go out the window? People who are
addicted to something don't pursue it out of consent, they are driven
by addiction. If they don't get it for a decent length of time, that
weakens the addiction. This is why alcoholics shouldn't drink and
pot heads shouldn't smoke. People addicted to Internet porn shouldn't
look at any for as long as possible.
As far as the you are healthy if you don't want to look at Internet porn
comment, that is ridiculous. Porn on the Net is designed to be
desirable in a highly addictive way. It isn't healthy to be into porn
because it impairs ones ability to form quality relationships and it
robs sexuality of it's beauty. The human psyche isn't made for Porn,
we are not meant to look at random people and lust after them. It is
easy to do though if you feel alone, depressed, or you have been
sexually abused by someone.
In the war on drugs, there is a lot of emphasis on teaching people to
leave drugs alone. Thing is, you have to target the supply or you'll
never win this war. The suppliers of porn on the Internet need to be
targeted. A lot of the "models" on porn sites are forced into it.
Porn on the Net needs to be regulated so that free samples are no more.
It's not reasonable for sites to display porn without attempting in any
way to warn people, which is another thing that should be enforced.
Pornography is degrading and abusive. It reduces sexuality to an
exercise in lusting after a picture of someone. Pornography abuses
the model and the viewer. People because of porn become objects of
desire instead of people. To say healthy people don't look at
porn and dismiss the idea that something should be done to reduce
the amount of porn on the Net is ridiculous. Anything that depicts
sex as mere recreation is degrading.
I'm shocked that people don't bother to respond to the initial post
for literally days and then respond poorly. A just say no campaign
in regards to porn is advisable, but if the war on drugs has taught
us anything it's that a just say no campaign isn't nearly enough.
Curiosity is a powerful thing and porn is very addictive. Even if
you are looking at porn for say 20 minutes instead of an hour or
longer, you are still there for 20 minutes. It's easy to say that
porn is harmless if you don't pay for it, but that's not true.
Someone is abusing their sexuality for you to have a picture to look
at. If nobody wanted to look at the picture, it's less likely that
the person would be involved in producing it. We can all deny that
we are addicted to porn on the Net by saying I only see it
occasionally and that is as often as I see it. For some of us that
will be true, but not all of us. The alcoholic never admits to
having a drinking problem. The pot head insists that it's harmless.
I'm not pushing for an outright ban on Internet pornography.
I'm pushing for a ban on free Internet pornography. To say
that a just say no campaign is sufficient is ludicrous.
I must emphasize, pornography is never truly free. By
viewing Internet pornography, you are involved with it being
produced in the first place by offering an audience.
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