Is porn corrupting society?

[Alex_Spider]

Why I stopped watching porn: Ran Gavrieli at TEDxJaffa 2013

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRJ_QfP2mhU

Ran Gavrieli lives in Tel Aviv and studies gender at Tel Aviv University. He works with youth and adults all over the country in sex and gender studies and in building positive self image in a world inundated by sexual imagery with negative connotations.

Ran writes and lectures about emotional and physical safe sex; porn and porn-influenced cultural damages; gender and power relations; and sex and intimacy.

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Porn industry has become the equivalent of organ trafficking cartels. Billions of profit are being made by abusing young children and turning them into porn superstars. There was a romantic side to porn when it came out in the 70's, but now it's just perversion and gross imagery.
The guy in the video makes very interesting points.

 

[NickNitro]

No.

 

[Shikamaru]

Short answer, no.

 

[Wise]

Noooope.

 

[Alex_Spider]

No.

Short answer, no.

Noooope.

Okaaayyy........

 

[Fallen Angel]

 

[jonathancrane]

Nope.

 

[Harry Dresden]

No I don't think porn is corrupting society. The idea is ludicrous.

Simply because society has already been corrupted for centuries and decades. Sex for entertainment is nothing new.

 

[Hush]

I love lamp.

 

[Teelie]

Porn has existed for as long as man has had a way to finger paint.

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

I don't believe porn is corrupting our society, but I certainly do believe that it far too easily accessible to under aged children.

There need to be safeguards in place to protect them from being able to get at this stuff.

The remainder of us can just come and go as we please!

 

[Teelie]

Children seeing porn isn't a new thing... it used to literally be on the walls of ancient walls like graffitti, only it was considered normal or mundane. Of course times have changed and I'm not saying it should be okay but the idea it will somehow ruin children is overblown.

 

[zeroapoc]

It corrupted me. For which I am thankful.

 

[Hal_Jordan]

Bad thread is bad.

 

[Alex_Spider]

Porn has existed for as long as man has had a way to finger paint.

See, I never got this justification for a number of things like, money, wars, human suffering and prostitution. Just because something is very old that doesn't mean that it is right and we should condone it. Now, I want to be clear here. I myself watch occasionally porn of course, I won't be a hypocrite.
But the video has many valid points and the porn films have gotten out of hand today.
And even if some young kids are not searching for pervert stuff in the net, there are so many ads around, that they will surely stumble upon some horrible imagery even without their will. And that is gonna affect them negatively.

 

[Sundancer]

Depends on the culture, perhaps. Alan Moore in an interview was talking about his book Lost Girls and he said that in some European places where pornography is less taboo then sex crimes are down. I'd double-check it, but it sounds reasonable.

 

[Feenix]

Porn is an expression of sexuality. To repress sexuality is to shame one of the most basic instincts of homo sapiens.

 

[Alex_Spider]

Porn is an expression of sexuality. To repress sexuality is to shame one of the most basic instincts of homo sapiens.

Come on now, if we lived in a sane society we would express our sexuality with the persons we love. We wouldn't need any porn actress or prostitute to gain pleasure. And those girls surely don't do it for fun or because they enjoy it. There is a huge trafficking market behind the scenes that exploits them from a young age and in many cases forces them to participate in whatever perversion they come up with.

 

[DeadPresident]

No, it's corrupting society more.

Also, the reaction in this thread is insanely discouraging. What porn has done and is doing to gender relations is massive.

 

[zeroapoc]

Trust me, you don't have to love someone to express sexuality with them.

 

[Alex_Spider]

Trust me, you don't have to love someone to express sexuality with them.

Yeah, okay. But at least it should be a real woman that you like. Not a porn actress on your pc screen.

 

[Senator Pleasury]

Society is corrupting porn.

 

[Feenix]

Come on now, if we lived in a sane society we would express our sexuality with the persons we love. We wouldn't need any porn actress or prostitute to gain pleasure. And those girls surely don't do it for fun or because they enjoy it. There is a huge trafficking market behind the scenes that exploits them and in many cases forces them to participate in this.

Source? You're not talking about porn here, you're talking about prostitution, which is entirely different.

The pornography business has rules and regulations. Unlike prostitution, which isn't regulated and where we find children and diseases because there is no law in place to ensure this doesn't happen. The porn business has laws (ie. no children allowed) and it's safer because of them.


To say that the women don't do it for fun or because they enjoy it is extremely narrow-minded and not supported by fact. You have no right to judge how someone lives their life. If they choose to do porn (which I've heard is very lucrative as many porn stars live in the Hollywood Hills), it's a choice they made on their own.

For the record, prostitution should be legalized and regulated as well. Clearly, this illegality isn't helping anyone in the business and doesn't stop young teenage girls from being forced into it. Laws and regulation would help to prevent this exploitation.

 

[DeadPresident]

Source? You're not talking about porn here, you're talking about prostitution, which is entirely different.

The pornography business has rules and regulations. Unlike prostitution, which isn't regulated and where we find children and diseases because there is no law in place to ensure this doesn't happen. The porn business has laws (ie. no children allowed) and, therefore, provides a choice to the people who want to participate.


To say that the women don't do it for fun or because they enjoy it is extremely narrow-minded and not supported by fact. You have no right to judge how someone lives their life. If they choose to do porn (which I've heard is very lucrative as many porn stars live in the Hollywood Hills), it's a choice they made on their own.

For the record, prostitution should be legalized and regulated as well. Clearly, this illegality isn't helping anyone in the business and doesn't stop young teenage girls from being forced into it. Laws and regulation would help to prevent this exploitation.

Not going to dispute what you're saying because you may be right, but do you know what hegemonic power refers to?

 

[Teelie]

No, it's corrupting society more.

Also, the reaction in this thread is insanely discouraging. What porn has done and is doing to gender relations is massive.

What the real problem is the way society feels it must morally police consenting adults into it's view of proper sexual relations.

And to answer Alex's question: What you see now as corrupting was not seen as corrupting back then, it probably won't be the same as what's viewed as corrupting a century from now.

Trying to judge and moralize human history is foolish. We never stand still in anything. Even the most conservative person today is going to be seen as wildly liberal to someone from just a century ago. And liberals today will be seen as too conservative a century from now.

Then it will flip around, there will be new taboos, new idealogies and new ways of looking at the world. So nope, I don't see anything going on today as the definitive "problem" of society except those who feel they must preserve it in it's current state to never, ever be shifted or progressive.