Out of everything available in the world today is porn really that bad? Who are the people hurting? If you're addicted to drugs then you can kill yourself or others with the habit, the same goes for alcohol or cigarettes. So who are these people hurting with their "porn addictions"? Looking at some of the factors that help label anything as an addiction I came across these, "recurrent failure to resist impulses to engage in a specific behaviour," as well as "pleasure or relief at the time of engaging in the behaviour," so does that make every 16 year old boy an addict as well? It seems slightly on the ridiculous side to me. Perhaps we as a society are still uptight about sex in the first place and that's why such an overt expression of sexuality like pornography is so frowned upon by people the world over. I think we just haven't ever really moved on from those Victorian era sensibilities that meant a women who chose to stray from her husband was looked on as sick or evil, or that enjoying sex was a crime.
The young married couple who were trying to cope with the husbands "porn addiction" sort of baffle me if im being honest. What if the wife didn't have issues with pornography? Would his daily porn habit go from being a dirty little secret to something they did as a couple, or perhaps even become part of their foreplay? It seems to me that the only reason it was looked on by that couple as bad, dirty or even an addiction is because the wife took an issue with it. What if he had been doing something else on the computer? I don't know about anyone else but I play Tetris at least twice a day to either relax or if I'm bored and have nothing better to do.... and sometimes when I should be doing something like working on university assignments for example. What if he had been playing Tetris instead? Would he have been addicted to Tetris instead of porn, or wouldn't it not have been as big of a deal because society doesn't really frown upon Tetris the way it does pornography.
Friday, August 13, 2010
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Western society is far less uptight about sex now as opposed to say back in the 40's and 50's but there is still a stigma there even when it comes to discussing sex. We have sex creeping into every part of our culture but just because it's becoming more prevalent doesn't mean there aren't complaints about it being there. I know a lot of other countries are far more uptight about sex then Western cultures, but I wasn't discussing them.
ReplyDeleteAnd just because I shared a general opinion that I think pornography is harmless compared to say taking P or doing coke that gives you the right to attack someone who, you have admitted, you have never met?
Who says that all women who feature in adult material are drug takers, or that their families are ashamed of them? Im afraid that your comments say more about you and the type of person you are rather then offering anything constructive, because I don't see a real point there just a personal attack on myself which is not what this class blog was created for.
Quite so. The blog is not intended for personal attacks. Some issues can be difficult to discuss dispassionately but it's essential that we separate substantive points out from overt or even just implied personal attacks. With regret I'd like to request that this post now be considered "closed" because I don't think further dialogue here will shed any extra light on the subject.
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