Why is porn blocked in uni halls?
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Original post by Guills on wheels
do you have to start everything in caps with a lol?
yes, actually, we should.
your snobbishness is worse. why is tesco's worse than doing porn?
yes, actually, we should.
your snobbishness is worse. why is tesco's worse than doing porn?
I dont start everything in caps with lol. Even if I did, that would be competely fine. Your bringing that up is the 1st sign that you're running out of comebacks. Dont resort to the bring up irrelevant stuff tactic, please.
Im snobbish? Well Ive done retail and its the worst. ****ing all day for money would be better! Well not for me but it clearly is for people who are doing porn, otherwise they would be at Tesco.. but they decided porn is better for them!
Original post by Guills on wheels
it's more than that. They chose because they had no other option. Would you honestly go into sex work of your own volition, or because you had nothing going for you, nothing to sell apart from your body?
I mentioned that already, and I believe that it degrades men as much as it degrades women, as does any image of violent sex.
With heterosexual versions of pornography, there's numerous references to girls having "tight p***ies" or being young or "barely legal"
doesn't the fact that you are watching someone have sex with someone considerably younger, whose consent is questionable (due to the circumstances in her being there in the first place) and the incredibly high prevalence of signs of male pressure on female appearances (such as shaved pubic hair, which I'm sorry, just makes it look like you're ****ing a 7 year old, which is disgusting) creep you out even slightly?
It's been proven that it has an affect on male expectations of females in relationships, and I'm sure the same is true for homosexual porn.
I mentioned that already, and I believe that it degrades men as much as it degrades women, as does any image of violent sex.
With heterosexual versions of pornography, there's numerous references to girls having "tight p***ies" or being young or "barely legal"
doesn't the fact that you are watching someone have sex with someone considerably younger, whose consent is questionable (due to the circumstances in her being there in the first place) and the incredibly high prevalence of signs of male pressure on female appearances (such as shaved pubic hair, which I'm sorry, just makes it look like you're ****ing a 7 year old, which is disgusting) creep you out even slightly?
It's been proven that it has an affect on male expectations of females in relationships, and I'm sure the same is true for homosexual porn.
Most of this is tired rehash. Women and men in porn could take other jobs. Admin jobs, shop jobs, cleaning jobs. It's a choice appearing in porn. If they didn't take the suggested option of selling the only thing available to them as you put it, they would be in the same position as millions of other people who get along just fine without doing so.
This oft repeated ridiculous hyperbole about shaving is probably the worst thing feminists come out with about any subject. It undermines the good things they have to say on the subject of porn. Women who shave don't look like children. They look like shaved adults. Just as men who shave look like shaved adults. Just as men who don't need to shave their face look like adults. Just as men with hairless bodies look like adults. Women with very small breasts or men with small penises look like adults. Nobody would call sleeping with anybody like this a paedophile fantasy (words feminists repeatedly use in articles), because it's ridiculous.
Original post by Guills on wheels
do you have to start everything in caps with a lol?
yes, actually, we should.
your snobbishness is worse. why is tesco's worse than doing porn?
yes, actually, we should.
your snobbishness is worse. why is tesco's worse than doing porn?
That's some crazy reasoning. So if a company gets someone a job and as a result they aren't in complete poverty, then we should criticise that company for offering jobs?
Are you aware how ludicrous you sound?
And he wasn't trying to make the point that Tesco is worse than porn companies, he's just trying to use your logic to make you understand why you're wrong. Replace "pornstar" with any other job title with low requirements (and I actually disagree that porn has such low requirements that people go to it as a last resort), and your argument sounds very silly.
Original post by driftawaay
.. but they decided porn is better for them!
And that's an okay choice too because it's theirs. Not for anyone else to judge.
Original post by pane123
I would love to be a fly on the wall during that conversation.
Indeed, it wasn't the most serious suggestion made
I'd love for OP to be the kinda guy who would ask.Original post by Squirb
It wasn't blocked in our halls / uni
Anyway - a quick google search helps. (Hence my answer)
Original post by driftawaay
It's not like I want to watch porn, it's just that it bothers me that it's blocked. It's outrageous and as I said, you can't turn off safe search which means it is not only porn that is being blocked....
Plus even if I wanted to watch porn, I don't have internet on my phone so I can only use the university's wifi.
Seriously, I can't begin to imagine what made them decide to do this.
Plus even if I wanted to watch porn, I don't have internet on my phone so I can only use the university's wifi.
Seriously, I can't begin to imagine what made them decide to do this.
Bull****, everyone wants to watch porn.
Original post by JamesTheCool
Bull****, everyone wants to watch porn.
Honestly I find it so hard to find good porn that I just dont watch it any more. I used to be into it like when I was starting puberty everything would turn me on but its just not happening anyore, most porn is pretty dull
If this is true then that's really bad. At university you're an adult; you can do whatever the hell you want.
Personally I had no problem looking at porn in my halls, and I went to a Russell Group uni which surely would be stricter? It sounds stupid but sometimes I got paranoid that people around me might've known I was looking at porn as maybe there was no intranet privacy or whatever and people in nearby noticed my activity? (Yes, I'm a real dumbass when it comes to the internet.) I did get some funny looks from people sometimes so it makes me wonder.
Personally I had no problem looking at porn in my halls, and I went to a Russell Group uni which surely would be stricter? It sounds stupid but sometimes I got paranoid that people around me might've known I was looking at porn as maybe there was no intranet privacy or whatever and people in nearby noticed my activity? (Yes, I'm a real dumbass when it comes to the internet.) I did get some funny looks from people sometimes so it makes me wonder.
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Original post by driftawaay
Honestly I find it so hard to find good porn that I just dont watch it any more. I used to be into it like when I was starting puberty everything would turn me on but its just not happening anyore, most porn is pretty dull
I know what you mean.
I'm mainly into specific fetish stuff and it can be hard to come across - but it's out there. Sometimes I'll devote about an hour of my time to finding something worthwhile if I'm having a tug session.
I find generic sex scenes quite boring, and they typically take up 2/3rds of an average porn vid.
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Original post by JamesTheCool
If this is true then that's really bad. At university you're an adult; you can do whatever the hell you want.
Personally I had no problem looking at porn in my halls, and I went to a good uni. It sounds stupid but sometimes I got paranoid that people around me might've known I was looking at porn as maybe there was no intranet privacy or whatever and people in nearby noticed my activity? (Yes, I'm a real dumbass when it comes to the internet.) I did get some funny looks from people sometimes so it makes me wonder.
Personally I had no problem looking at porn in my halls, and I went to a good uni. It sounds stupid but sometimes I got paranoid that people around me might've known I was looking at porn as maybe there was no intranet privacy or whatever and people in nearby noticed my activity? (Yes, I'm a real dumbass when it comes to the internet.) I did get some funny looks from people sometimes so it makes me wonder.
I know, omg. You are connected to your uni's internet, so techincally yes there are people who can see what youre upto...
Original post by Surtee332
No it does as long as you think logically and clear-minded.
Which you clearly don't do.
Original post by driftawaay
I know, omg. You are connected to your uni's internet, so techincally yes there are people who can see what youre upto...
Crap! I looked at some filthy, filthy porn at uni as well. Crap!
That might explain some Facebook-friend deletions I've had then...
...and why people look at me like I'm the Bogie Man.
EDIT: not really because I think the internet in halls is separate from the actual uni internet, so it's no different to looking at porn from your home, in which case no one can tell (unless they actually go on your computer + search your history/favourites).
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When you go home in a couple of weeks download your material on to a flash drive and use that just make sure you label something that only you know that won't accidentally get seen by the entire world and its wife and keep it seperate from your uni work
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Original post by JamesTheCool
Crap. I looked at some filthy, filthy porn at uni as well. Crap.
That might explain some Facebook-friend deletions I've had then...
...and why people look at me like I'm the Bogie Man.
Crap. I looked at some filthy, filthy porn at uni as well. Crap.
That might explain some Facebook-friend deletions I've had then...
...and why people look at me like I'm the Bogie Man.
No no ordinary people cant just look at it, like I cant just look at what other people have looked at... but surely if its connected to the uni internet, people in charge of the system could look up what youve been up to, idk
Original post by Surtee332
Isnt objectifying and treating women as items to benifit from the same as degrading them. Harshly degrading indeed.
An oversimplification and an overgeneralisation, you need more explaining. One could argue men are more degraded than women in porn. Porn is one of the few professions than women get paid substantially more than men.
No one is forced into the profession, it's a choice and some enjoy it. It's not just for people to pleasure themselves too, it's common to watch porn to improve your sex life.
Not all porn involves women too, so if anything it's degrading to men and women.
Original post by Surtee332
Isnt objectifying and treating women as items to benifit from the same as degrading them. Harshly degrading indeed.
What about people who have one night stands, using their partner as sexual pleasure for a night? Are those people degrading each other?
I don't see how it's degrading at all. Yes, you are using them as a source of sexual pleasure, but it's not like anyone believes that is exclusively what those people are.
Could you not say the same thing for actors in normal films? You are using them, and the context of the movie, to derive pleasure, and nothing more. You don't really care about their personal lives, you just care about how well they can act etc.
Also can you please explain why you highlighted women not both men and women?
Original post by driftawaay
Seriously. I mean I'm already struggling because torrents are blocked. I understand torrents are illegal, porn isn't though but you can't turn off safe search at my uni. I mean seriously, we are at university, we are adults here we should be allowed to watch whatever we wish, this isn't an elementary school library.
Seriously, what the ****?
Seriously, what the ****?
download Tor Browser and then you can access all the things that are blocked, no matter what kind of network you using.
https://www.torproject.org/download/download
Original post by zippyRN
as others have pointed out University computing services are provided for academic purposes , there is considerable tolerance of leisure use , but the HEI is paying for the bandwidth
you aren;t allowed tyo look at porn on a workplace network so why should you be allowed on a Uni netowrk
you aren;t allowed tyo look at porn on a workplace network so why should you be allowed on a Uni netowrk
Because people live at uni
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