Finish this sentance. "Porn is..."

[Locut0s]

Porn is...

???

[In_The_Wind]

1. Porn is... for adults only.

[Brother Buzz]

2. Porn is...well...

I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it.

[Locut0s]

3. Potter Stewart ? nt

[Brother Buzz]

4. Potter Stewart! nt

[rrneck]

5. Fiction. nt

[LadyHawkAZ]

6. Porn is...

um...

er...

I'm not sure I can verbally define porn...

I will have to demonstrate.

I will need a volunteer... anyone? Anyone? Hellooooo...

[opiate69]

83. *raises hand*

[pinboy3niner]

7. ...a mistake when heard as part of the term...

...'porn cone,' especially in the South. (Unless there is a meaning I'm unfamiliar with and afraid to look up on Urban Dictionary. )

[HarveyDarkey]

8. Porn is everywhere on the internet.

Could it possibly be what the internet was developed for?

[petronius]

9. Wait, on the internet!? I never thought to look there

Be right back... maybe...

[rurallib]

28. well, now we'll never see him again

[NuclearDem]

15. Everyone knows the internet is for porn

[Archae]

10. boring.

Seriously, this is your typical porn "plot."

"Hi! I'm Muffy Diver!"

"Hi! I'm John Stud."

*BUMP* *GRIND*

That's all.

[BainsBane]

41. +1

[nomorenomore08]

11. ...useful. It does what it's supposed to do, no more and no less.

And if I had an actual human partner at the moment, my interest in porn would probably be rather limited.

[Behind the Aegis]

12. ...responsible for an increase in one-handed typing.

[azurnoir]

13. and perhaps a corresponding increase in

carpal tunnel syndrome too

[Kablooie]

14. A warm puppy.

[hobbit709]

16. as old as human art.

[Sometimeswedrown]

17. A deviants escape

Anyone sitting thinking females enjoy some of the sick stuff in those forgets they are paid well or so high it does not matter.

Am I a prude? Very far from it but do not watch porn seen enough as a teen to last.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

29. So what *were* you doing instead of your English composition homework?

[nomorenomore08]

31. +1

I mean, I know there's some pretty grotesque material out there - which I avoid for reasons of both ethics and personal preference - but I don't see any need to get all high and mighty about this stuff. We're all human, we all (more or less) have a sex drive, so whatevs...

[dr.strangelove]

18. Porn.

It is what it is. Love it, hate it, whatever.

[pokerfan]

19. Porn is not erotica

[center]Erotica is what turns me on.
~
Porn is what those perverts
down the street use to get off.



[/center]

[BainsBane]

42. I thought erotica was written

whereas porn is images.

[pokerfan]

81. literary or artistic works...

according to Encyclopedia Britannica....

erotica: literary or artistic works having an erotic theme; especially, books treating of sexual love in a sensuous or voluptuous manner. The word erotica typically applies to works in which the sexual element is regarded as part of the larger aesthetic aspect. It is usually distinguished from pornography, which can also have literary merit but which is usually understood to have sexual arousal as its main purpose.

And pornography can also be written as well:

pornography
noun
obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, especially those having little or no artistic merit.

So we're back to what's considered obscene and/or contains artistic merit.

[HappyMe]

20. okay.

Like everything else in life, some of it's good, some of it's crappy.

[jakeXT]

21. Just looking at youtube, I think I'll have to watch some interviews and documentaries

(Looks like NSFW)

[blueamy66]

22. for people that are lacking real sex and love

Imho

[bigwillq]

23. awesome.

[Apophis]

24. awesome.

[BillStein]

25. in the eye of the beholder

[LeftofObama]

26. Overrated.

[tavernier]

27. ...best listened to on a pornograph

while playing tennis in the buff with Pjorn Porg... and his green balls.

[antiquie]

80. Duzy

[madrchsod]

30. interesting....

[nolabear]

32. Kind of depressing.

I'm hardly an expert but the actual porn I've seen as opposed to sex in a movie has always been a little sad. They play to the camera and do it badly so there's no sense of connection between people, just bodies. And for women that seldom works. We're relational by nature and not just voyeuristic.

[mythology]

34. This

I haven't seen much porn, but most of what I've seen lacks real passion and involves some rather uncomfortable looking poses.

And apparently foreplay is highly overrated.

[TeeYiYi]

33. ...insidious. ..nt

TYY

[JesterCS]

35. Porn is.... fun? :)

[loli phabay]

36. a vocation not a hobby.

[davidpdx]

37. Porn is......

ok as long as you are not looking at Anthony's weiner.

Sorry, I just couldn't resist

[datasuspect]

38. 'batin fuel

[Tom Ripley]

39. hard

dying is easy

[Tuesday Afternoon]

40. "Porn is... the subject of this thread."

[Major Nikon]

43. Tasty?

[In_The_Wind]

48. Very informative.

[Incitatus]

44. the reason Al Gore invented the Internet.

[olddots]

45. Porn is for the unimaginative

hey but who is perfect ?

[A Simple Game]

46. Porn is for research. At least that's what I always said when I was younger.

I had to view some porn occasionally just to make sure they didn't come up with something new that I didn't know about yet.

Now that I am older and can't do half the things I used to be able to do, it makes no sense to learn something new.

I suppose I could try to find some senior porn but that just doesn't seem right.

[Locut0s]

50. Research...

"didn't come up with something new that I didn't know about yet"

[In_The_Wind]

47. Porn is... a very often a lounge topic.

[Locut0s]

49. Yes I've noticed that...

Which is why I decided to add to the conversation. Or not, depending on how you look at this post.

[In_The_Wind]

51. Some of the DUers in the lounge need to learn how to use DU tools to avoid seeing our porn post.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

61. Some of the DUers in the lounge need to learn how to use DU tools to avoid seeing our gun posts.

[In_The_Wind]

62. I don't see any gun post.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

63. right here is one that has your name all over it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018444506

[In_The_Wind]

64. Oh the one that 4 host said lock while 1 said leave.

Last edited Thu Aug 1, 2013, 01:32 AM - Edit history (1)

[In_The_Wind]

66. You were not a lounge host at that time.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

67. I am now and Yes, I was .. can you read dates and timestamps? and do you honestly

think that 4-3 is consensus? really?

[Godhumor]

71. 0-6 vote to leave this post alone

Have to love the unanimous decisions.
(Self delete post was due to thinking I posted this in the wrong place the first time while using my phone. I understand the intrawebs!)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

72. heh, thanks --

someone lost their alerting privileges for 24 hours.

[hrmjustin]

73. This is totally uncool! Starting in with another host in the forums on a hosting issue is uncool.

If you have an issue with the host please bring it up in the host forum. Chastising a fellow host in the forums is not appropriate at all.

[aikoaiko]

74. And the jury results are in....

AUTOMATED MESSAGE: Results of your Jury Service
Mail Message
At Wed Jul 31, 2013, 09:26 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

Some of the DUers in the lounge need to learn how to use DU tools to avoid seeing our gun posts.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=447287

REASON FOR ALERT:

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate. (See <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=aboutus#communitystandards" target="_blank">Community Standards</a>.)

ALERTER'S COMMENTS:

Bringing a host disagreement to The Lounge, The Lounge SoP states "no drama."

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Wed Jul 31, 2013, 09:33 PM, and the Jury voted 2-4 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: Then maybe you should bring it up with the hosts, alerter. I don't see anything wrong with this particular post.
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: A little teasing isn't drama.
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT and said: A passive/aggressive "some people" call-out. Hide.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: I perceive no particular drama in the alerted reply.


Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

[hrmjustin]

75. For the record I did not alert on this but calling out host on a hosting message in the lounge is

not cool.

[In_The_Wind]

78. Would you call this porn?

*** warning *** May contain [img][/img]

[edbermac]

52. Nrop spelled backward

[cliffordu]

53. In the lap of the beholder.

[Locut0s]

54. LOL. nt

[krispos42]

55. The reason my initial Carbonite backup is taking over a month.

Well, video files in general.

[Locut0s]

56. *psst* there is this thing called streaming now ;)...

I don't think I've downloaded a porn video in... a long time. Everything nowadays is streaming

[krispos42]

57. I'm a pack rat.

I just revived a 250gb backup drive by ripping it out of it's case and plugging it directly into my computer. This, after my 80gb hard drive finally died (9years, 3 months of solid service). Now I've got lots more room!

Streaming... ha! I can barely stream YouTube videos... this computer is also over 9 years old!

[Locut0s]

58. LOL Touche...

Actually I'm a pack rat too. I have 4TB of drive space here. Actually only 2TB is visible since it's in a RAID 1 array for redundancy. And I was just forced to rip out a 1TB drive from a case, just like you, and plug it into my tower. Now I have more space, for a short while anyway. For me it's mostly downloaded TV series. But there was a time when porn would have been a not small portion (now I just steam )

[krispos42]

59. Ah, terabytes...

...I've heard of them. Never had one though.

My three drives total 700 gig.


Hell, I'm still on a CRT...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

60. mentioned in the ToS

Don't post "shock content" or porn.

Do not post or link to extreme images of violence, gore, bodily functions, pain, or human suffering for no purpose other than to shock and disgust. Do not post or link to pornography.

[Locut0s]

68. But this isn't porn...

It's talking about porn. I wouldn't call this "shock content" as there are no images or anything about it that is meant to be shocking. There are no links to any content. Talking about porn isn't porn itself any more than talking about Edward Snowden leaking documents is the act of leaking documents yourself.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

70. I never said it was, dude. chillax. -

you asked a question I answered it.

Porn is ... mentioned in the ToS.

did I say anything about this thread being porn?

No.

Porn is ,,, on the internet.

Porn is ... the subject of your thread.

Porn cone is the same thing as hardtack, I think

[Warren DeMontague]

76. May

[In_The_Wind]

77. Fooie!

My birthday is in August. [img][/img]

[Myrina]

79. boring, mostly.

n/t

[Katashi_itto]

82. "...Dark Lord Sauron's seceret obsession.."

[Quantess]

84. Often really boring

But strangely hypnotic.