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Being ashamed of pornography
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Is it understandable for people to not buy/keep/look at it because they find it shameful or could they relax a bit more?
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A bit sad really I think. People could just attend to their own lives a bit more but that's my opinion.
If are into it, how do you deal with the objectification/exploitation issue that some people come up with? Do you ignore it or do you try and say they're beng wrong? Or just not notice? Suppose I'd find it difficult to deal with such criticism myself, why I'm starting more and more to avoid the stuff, in fact become politically opposed to some of the stuff that goes on
Now I'm not saying I disagree here, but I'd like to point something out. Firstly, I didn't mention women being exploited, second I meant that originally it was other people who came up with this exploitation/objectification thing.
Of course, you cannot really know without investigating the industry, but that doesn't stop these people from being disapproving, which does just seem to have a very powerful influence
I find old women in porn rather revolting.....
For some reason, I've never liked pornography (never looked at it or anything) and earlier this year, I got teased about it... :rolleyes:
I can appreciate that people get a lot of money for doing porn. The question is, do they do it because they like it or is it only for the money?
And is it really that manly to pay a woman several £ to take her clothes off, then jack off over it?
What about doing the same thing for free?
And what kind of political statement does having naked images (for the purposes of wanking) on your computer or under your bed make?
I don't think porn affects the way we relate to people though to be honest - a misoygnistic/androphobic jerk is going to be a misoygnistic/androphobic jerk. A stud is going to be a stud. It's pretty much innate. The behaviour can be changed a bit - but I think porn makes next to no difference
Well, partly because other people try to analyse it and they're going to judge me for what I choose to buy or look at, so I think it's important.
For example, if Andrea Dworkin knew one read Playboy ( I don't by the way just an example), do you think she'd be impressed? Magazines like that can and do make a political statement
And yes, you can say people are going to do it anyway, might as well not worry why they're doing it, but that just makes you a machine I think. We don't need to be like machines, we can think better than that
At the same time, I am aware that avoidance is dismissing an entire genre as exploitative crap, which is possibly a bit unfair, and will get me marked out as a prude, which I don't want.
So it's a difficult decision, is it not?
No one i know analyses porn. They just watch it and get off on it :chin:
Really do you care that much about what people think of you?! It exploits no one, people have fun with it, and not being funny but the people that arent impressed with it are prudes, and who wants to be mates with them anyway!
LMAO.
Well done Lacy, love you. You slut.
But I guess you've got a point, maybe it's just one of these things which don't need to be intellectualised.
Didn't approve in public, bet secretly hes well into it!
No it is one of those things that is how it is, nothing deep about it.