moviefreakedmind said:
What pornographic companies advertise to youth? As for violence, if you’re talking about violence in media, I don’t care about that at all; there’s no evidence that it is harmful at all.The ubiquity of porn particularly in the internet age and the ease of its accessibility to youth (and everyone) is the problem. We have an existential porn problem in our western culture, there’s no question about it. On its face, there isn’t anything wrong with adults indulging in a little erotic material, and it’s important for humans to have healthy sex lives. However, without checks and balances, over-indulgence can lead to serious psychological and physical maladies. There is empirical evidence that increased pornography use has lead to sexual dysfunction in a growing number of men. Studies have shown that boys and girls exposed to pornography have very unhealthy views of what constitutes normal sex. There are now record amounts of women who are spending insane amounts of money on things like labiaplasty because they have become addicted to watching pornography, and suddenly don’t think their bits are as attractive as a porn star’s. Meanwhile, when you read a stat that labiaplasties are up 100% in the last two years and it’s suddenly a billion dollar industry, remember those first world problems and compare them to the starvation and disease that often runs rampant in those backward countries you were just complaining about.
Yes, what America needs is to regress it’s views on sex and porn even further.
I actually think Alderaan is onto something there, it’s at least worth thinking about.
I don’t think those problems are the fault of porn, they’re the fault of America’s “unenlightened” view of sex. European countries don’t have this problem as far as I know, and they have porn as well.
Edit: When it comes to Labiaplasties, the problem is international, my mistake. But even then, I’m not sure that it’s a problem, how is it any different than plastic surgery? People will feel like they can be better with or without porn. Porn isn’t causing self-esteem issues any more than the rest of media.