Practically speaking? No. Ideally speaking? Yes.
Ah yes. Sex bad. Abstinence good. Rub acid on your parts. Yadda yadda.
Please show me where I said that. I can understand why you might have that perception of me, especially if you’re American, but please try to realize that there are not simply binary options out there.
As I said about, sexual desire is healthy and normal, and it is healthy and normal because sex is good. In fact, I would say sex is one of the best things on the planet. I just don’t think making it into an industry is good. I think that sex is, normally, an expression of love between two consenting adults, and to make it into entertainment cheapens it and normalizes the sexual objectification of human beings, which is deeply harmful.
I think there is something inherently wrong about objectifying human beings.
I don’t think that’s a reasonable equivalence.
Fair enough. If you’re referring to my analogy with slavery, my point was simply that consenting to other people using you doesn’t necessarily make it right. It wasn’t to say that all sex workers are slaves.
People survived for thousands of years without porn.
People survived for thousands of years without plumbing or antibiotics. Doesn’t mean we should ditch them.
Then please explain how porn has enormously benefited society.
But also, speaking as someone who has never done porn or had sex, but whose hormones are very much alive and well, I think a little bit of self-control is far more satisfying than simply giving in to every desire.
Seriously, are you religious or something?
What difference does it make? You say that like it’s a bad thing. I came to my views independent of religion and only subsequently embraced my current religious beliefs, so it has little bearing on my views here.
This conversation is going nowhere. We should probably abort it.
If that’s how you feel. But speak for yourself, because I think a good discussion could still be had.