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In reply to the discussion: Does Porn Degrade Women? [View all]geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)206. "Almost eight out of 10 young women said pornography
had led to pressure on girls to look and act a certain way, while 66% said "it would be easier growing up if pornography was less easy to access."
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/aug/20/teenagers-internet-pornography-damaging-poll
There's a pronounced gender gap in how porn is perceived--not accidentally so.
Trying to act as if everyone who doesn't have Pornhub in their bookmarks is some kind of prudish deviant is odd.
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Yeah, "porn" is a pretty vague term. Is nudity porn? or bedroom scenes in regular movies?
ColemanMaskell
Oct 2016
#79
I think you may have misunderstood my post, my friend. I've never claimed I haven't looked at smut.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#322
There is a demand for oil so I think we should let the North Dakota pipeline go through. Right??
adigal
Oct 2016
#139
What exactly would you like? You already have the 1st Amendment right to complain all you want.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#186
watch it, if you don't support censorship, apparently you're an "MRA"
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#282
Some think invoking those letters will obscure the fact that they're defending a GOP Platform Plank
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#287
I heard that "today's marijuana" causes brain damage and will make your testicles fall off, too.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#16
I do not disagree with the idea. But- while it was bad in the past digital photography...
JanMichael
Oct 2016
#7
You're watching porn with your wife, but then you want to start an anti-porn thread on DU?
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#18
I think some people confuse acknowledging that women are indeed degraded in some porn
kcr
Oct 2016
#96
I might accept that if I saw the anti-porn activists like Dines promoting "good" porn.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#189
Ask Gail Dines to find some porn she won't call "degrading" or "harmful"
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#181
Getting paid to have sex is prostitution. The acting part? Really that is where you want to go?
Rex
Oct 2016
#254
Hell, look around: some folks are STILL being traumatized by the 2013 SI swimsuit issue
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#308
There was like at least a month of continual shit-losing, over that one.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#334
Republicans are the party of wanting to censor pornography. Just read their platform.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#31
apparently no adult can EVER possibly consent to take off their clothes in front of a camera.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#33
I think trying to tell consenting adults how they should or shouldn't get their jollies is what is
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#49
I'm responding to the post which put the nude drawing anecdote under "my porn stories"
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#64
so why does the inclusion of something sexual automatically remove it from the category "art"?
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#177
Agreed. That's great. Haven't been to that particular museum, myself.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#325
if everyone could & would agree that enthusiastic adult consent should be the standard
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#201
"The U.S.A. has it's own toxic cultural attitudes about nudity and sexuality."
NaturalHigh
Oct 2016
#300
Just like fight scenes in movies aren't "real", they're staged to look real
ColemanMaskell
Oct 2016
#85
I don't feel the need to defend shitty bands, but that doesn't mean I agree "Rock & Roll is Satanic"
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#55
I don't feel the need to call for a ban or even regulation of it to admit that a lot of porn is
rumdude
Oct 2016
#59
One, comparing pictures of naked people fucking to heroin is ludicrous.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#63
Gail Dines has built her entire career on fighting porn. So she's hardly a disinterested participant
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#71
Really? You don't want to defend the Republican Platform and the Utah State Legislature?
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#74
and yet, you want to reduce "porn" to a single, easily broadbrushed entity.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#179
what people don't seem to be able to handle is any challenging of these axiomatic, blanket
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#171
And again, Gail Dines has nothing but praise for the Republican State Legislature in Utah.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#203
you find me an example of Gail Dines approving of ANY graphic visual depiction of adult sexuality
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#260
So censorship of pornography is the answer? How many years in jail should someone get?
davidn3600
Oct 2016
#66
It may assist you to learn the wholly relevant difference between "imply" and "infer."
LanternWaste
Oct 2016
#279
Yep.... no mention of ANY proposed regulation, much less a ban proposal. Straw man. nt
prayin4rain
Oct 2016
#167
The ONLY people making this sort of noise are Republicans. Read their platform.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#78
I'm sorry if you don't like my opinion. I'm sorry if you don't like people standing up for choice.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#97
mislabeling? The entire premise of these threads is based upon deliberate misrepresentation.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#100
what is black and white is the attempt to put "porn" under one roof.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#173
You're right, I'm tougher on "Christianity" than I am on "the porn industry". You got my number.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#172
I think younger people are increasingly small-l libertarian on personal choice issues.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#175
Is it your belief that this campaign has brought young people to the party?
lumberjack_jeff
Oct 2016
#243
Like Bucky Fuller, my optimism is a conscious choice. And not always an easy one.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#257
if one's ideal of sex is mechanically using another body to masturbate oneself
geek tragedy
Oct 2016
#108
to a more abstract point, it denies the entire human/psychological/emotional component of sexuality
geek tragedy
Oct 2016
#163
I'm glad we agree that its time for a long-overdue conversation about women & vibrators.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#198
Then why are the two places we hear this gail dines gibberish, this thread & the GOP platform?
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#199
And throwing personal insults out means the intellectual argument is lost
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#207
Nor have I "tried to act as if everyone who doesn't have pornhub in their bookmarks is a deviant"
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#220
sure, when people thought sex was dirty and we had to be constantly vigilant about "sin".
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#98
A lot of the home-made porn is OK, it's the professional stuff that is disgusting and degrading.
Odin2005
Oct 2016
#109
Indeed an all-time high achiever in the annals of "throw some shit at the wall & see if it sticks"
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#307
Why do anti-porn people never acknowledge that some women enjoy performing in and watching porn
Yavin4
Oct 2016
#124
That's fine. I'm "anti" a lot of things, but I don't want to deny people from enjoying them.
Yavin4
Oct 2016
#134
Where does amatuer or home made porn fit into this belief of degradation?
Heeeeers Johnny
Oct 2016
#140
Thank you for adding some really great points with this and your other post
Blue_Adept
Oct 2016
#155
how come we never think of men being degraded by porn? i think porn is degrading because
La Lioness Priyanka
Oct 2016
#154
He may have been a returning customer, and once you brought him to the system's attention
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#174
The fact that the OP was a shit-stirring troll, now banned, doesnt seem to stop some here
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#202
I'm sure there are people who watch superman and think a red cape will allow them to fly, too.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#238
For someone so abjectly opposed to porn, you seem to know a lot about it.
Act_of_Reparation
Oct 2016
#255
It sounds like this isn't your first trip through the DU carwash, so, you should expect that.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#259
like I said, it's too early for the Thanksgiving Turkey Holocaust threads.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#271
EVERYONE WHO DOESNT AGREE WITH ED MEESE, RICK SANTORUM, AND THE GOP PLATFORM IS AN "MRA"!!!!
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#281
"a public health crisis that is destroying the life [sic] of millions"
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#290
I think it's an increasingly outdated perspective, frankly. But.... DU skews older.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#310
I think it's because of the polls that show they aren't crazy about Hillary, honestly.
Marr
Oct 2016
#312
I'm married and allowed to watch porn. I like porn where the women are either dominant...
phleshdef
Oct 2016
#324
Looks more like Quetzlcoatl with a side of 72 hours of nightmarish hallucinations
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#337
One usually pays a bit more for that particular 'experience'.... (the degrading part)
underahedgerow
Oct 2016
#341