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How pornography and sexualisation affects young people.

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Original post by cole-slaw
Anyways, porn may not be 100% realistic, but its certainly a lot closer to real sex than anything you see in films or sex ed classes.


No, I don't think it is, but maybe I see better films :smile:

Original post by silverbolt
Ruining no. But unrealistic yes. Porn is fake, its a drama with sex in it.


I'd say porn is a reason pubic hair is treated as unnatural - when showing it became mainstream, porn went shaved and the pendulum has not yet swung back - and for people expecting things like A2M.

I wouldn't ban porn, but I would be tempted to insist that it wasn't edited, so you'd see the preparation and the mistakes and the floppy moments and the fanny farts and the consequences and...
Original post by unprinted
No, I don't think it is, but maybe I see better films :smile:



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I'd say porn is a reason pubic hair is treated as unnatural - when showing it became mainstream, porn went shaved and the pendulum has not yet swung back - and for people expecting things like A2M.

I wouldn't ban porn, but I would be tempted to insist that it wasn't edited, so you'd see the preparation and the mistakes and the floppy moments and the fanny farts and the consequences and...


Its amazing how dumb some people are, you really wouldn't think they would need to see those things to understand that is what goes on. No-one watches car chases and thinks "oh I will try that on my drive to work tomorrow".


brb, just watched Jackie Chan and am going to have a fight with 5 massive blokes with baseball bats.
On the one hand, yes, if people followed what they see in porn, men would use withdrawal almost every time they have intercourse. And some changes are society moving along, as with the normalisation of oral sex.

On the other, give another plausible reason for the widespread belief that pubic hair has to be minimal / non-existent. Ditto enquiries about A2M.

Amongst the things that make Jackie Chan films great (the HK ones at least) is that he shows the outtakes!
Original post by lyrical_lie


How young would we class as young though? As a lot of the issues that were coming up were that children are seeing porn younger and younger. Due to having more access to it. I agree about the murder and torture though, however I think the difference might be is that we are taught these things are wrong in schools and at home whereas sexualisation is something that is ignored in a lot of households. I know in mine it wasn't spoken about at all.


Prior to adolescence?

My point is that it couldn't possibly be a problem. If someone is young enough to mimic exactly the actions of others and for it to be permissible as simply a consequence of immaturity, then they aren't got to be old enough to use their penis or understand sex in any capacity. Therefore it's difficult to see how a young child could, upon seeing pornography, act upon it.

When exactly were you taught that murder was wrong? I didn't have those lessons, it was just generally accepted, as the fact that sexual abuse is wrong was generally accepted.
Original post by unprinted
On the one hand, yes, if people followed what they see in porn, men would use withdrawal almost every time they have intercourse. And some changes are society moving along, as with the normalisation of oral sex.

On the other, give another plausible reason for the widespread belief that pubic hair has to be minimal / non-existent. Ditto enquiries about A2M.

Amongst the things that make Jackie Chan films great (the HK ones at least) is that he shows the outtakes!


I think oral and anal sex have always been pretty normal. If porn is encouraging more people to try things that they might enjoy, then that is only a good thing, surely?


But A2M is just like, what? why would you do that? who gets anything from that?
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I think it's easy to scapegoat porn as it was to heckle Marilyn Manson and Grand theft auto in the late 90s/early 2000's, at the end of the day if your kid is of stable mindset and knows the difference between right and wrong then they're not going to be coerced into any wrongdoing.
Original post by cole-slaw
I think oral and anal sex have always been pretty normal.


You could get a divorce for your partner wanting oral sex, certainly into the 1950s. Anal sex was illegal between men until 1967 (then only if they were both at least 21 and 'in private') and between women and men until 1994.

If porn is encouraging more people to try things that they might enjoy, then that is only a good thing, surely?

But A2M is just like, what? why would you do that? who gets anything from that?


Do you see the contradiction? :smile:

There are some things I think more people should try, but they need to know - amongst other things - what actually happens and how to minimise risks. Porn doesn't show either of those.
Original post by unprinted
You could get a divorce for your partner wanting oral sex, certainly into the 1950s. Anal sex was illegal between men until 1967 (then only if they were both at least 21 and 'in private') and between women and men until 1994.



But that was the strange period of Victorian religious and moral repression, we're now slowly returning to normality and a healthier view of sexuality.




Do you see the contradiction? :smile:

There are some things I think more people should try, but they need to know - amongst other things - what actually happens and how to minimise risks. Porn doesn't show either of those.


Yes, but I've never actually heard of anyone wanting to do that in real life.


Sex ed shows nothing but the risks. It makes sex sound more dangerous than chainsaw juggling. If you just learnt about sex from sex ed classes you would wonder why the hell anyone ever bothered.

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