• SIGSEGV@waveform.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m asking this in good faith: what are the “devastating consequences” of watching porn, in your opinion?

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      1 year ago

      Too young; Unrealistic expectations, stunted emotional growth, disfigured view of women, and generally developing worse fetishes. This is all anecdotal and/or personal experience however.

      Overall however i think the porn industry should be abolished, no one should have to do any of this for money, and it objectifies the people involved way too much.

      Cool username btw :)

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        1 year ago

        There is most definitely some really dark porn out there, and I would like that kind of crap to be unavailable everywhere because it is exploitative (at best). However, not all porn is like that. I was raised in a hyper-religious family and seeing a naked person was taboo, so the first time I saw porn—which, thankfully, was not of the darker varieties—was actually an eye-opening experience and it gave me a healthier opinion about sex and human bodies in general.

        That is to say, I don’t think it is all bad and I wouldn’t go so far as to say that the entire industry should be abolished. If it wasn’t frowned upon so heavily by a large majority of mostly religious nutjobs, it would be easier to regulate, because currently it is mostly relegated to shadowy corners of the market.