2013-02-14, 11:49 PM
CrazyForDex Wrote:You are misunderstanding my point. Pornography is not necessarily damaging to women because it gives women a skewed view of social norms or what is acceptable, it is damaging to women because it gives men a skewed view of what they should expect from relationships or what is acceptable by society's standards. (Note: I am not saying here that only men watch porn, because it has been proven that people of both sexes watch pornography).
Your statement that "women" should be adults seems to imply that viewers of pornography are also adults. This is not always the case because whether illegally or not, adolescents do watch pornography. Much of this can have violent or aggressive scenes which can affect how they perceive women. Pornography also tends to objectify women by primarily focusing on their body parts, which also detaches a personality from those parts. It almost dehumanizes women, where they seem to be more parts than person.
Whether or not you feel that only "dumbasses" take this seriously, violent pornography does convey certain messages to the viewer and those can have harmful affects on both the viewer and on their sexual partners in the future. Adolescents and even some adults can be very impressonable and oblivious to subliminal messaging and can be harmed if they take these messages seriously.
Btw, I am not trying to advocate the removal of pornography from the internet. I am simply trying to bring awareness to the fact that the integration of pornography into our society can have harmful affects on both women and men.
I believe your "men's view of expectations of a woman" only really holds water if they're watching consistently from a young, impressionable age (like 6 or 7), before their parents have a chance to give them the low-down. I think that a man, or woman, armed with a solid core belief set aren't going to be impressionable.
Although I will concede, that porn can definitely negatively affect some young people who have garbage parents.
If we wanna get deeply philosophical, it really all goes back to the parents. Everything. But that is neither here nor there.
(opinion>)tbh though id prefer if porn was gone. i watch porn, i like it, but i've never had sex. can't help but feel the surprise has been ruined a tad? novelty may have died down a bit before i even got to it? then again that doesn't matter so much, so long as its with the person you love.(<opinion)
ANYWHOOOO, disregarding psych 1400....
This is horse pomegranate. But if the citizens are ok with it, then they'll get it.
edit; 5 posts have been posted in the few minutes it took me to type this, im already behind