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  • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I eat. I talk to the people around me. I play games that let me feel like I can have some sort of impact on the world around me. I watch porn.

    When I have a particularly stressful day at work which is basically every day because nursing is absolutely fucked and you're doing 50% more because companies want to keep making obscene amounts while the industry is collapsing because conditions are so fucked, I tend to look for something to eat. I feel better after eating and then I feel guilty because I'm already fat. It's not healthy and frankly at this point I'm sorta hoping it takes me out young because everything is horrible anyway.

    The healthiest thing I do is talking to people and venting about my day, I don't have many people to talk to about the actual deep stuff though and everyone else is sick of me repeating myself about the broken world we live in and my shitty experiences within it.

    I like building games and games with a notable progression because unlike IRL progression, I can have some power over the world in Vic3 or Dyson Sphere Program.

    Sex positivity is cool and I wish more people would be, you see it a lot around porn games, but it is kinda weird how we're so okay with violence and gore being shown to children yet we shame people's bodies for being indecent. Maybe we should also make sure kids aren't watching violence or simulated violence to such a degree where they end up viewing war as another Marvel franchise,

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The evidence that pornography is addictive ranges from very weak to blatant religious propaganda.

        • Dolores [love/loves]
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          2 years ago

          halfway to religious weirdos just with the unproven assumption its 'addictive' and inherently ethically damaging to gaze upon.

            • Dolores [love/loves]
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              2 years ago

              Kids messing up their brains

              prove it.

              Plenty of men are addicted to it

              prove it. 'not being able to' do a study is not evidence.

              It has had an impact on men’s view on women and has objectified them further

              prove it.

              you're expecting me to take these as fact on faith but this is totally not influenced by religious moralism :lenin-sure:

                • Esoteir [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  I think everyone has eyes and ears to see how men that watch pornography act like around women

                  today i learned watching animated beastars porn of two furry dudes fucking makes me act misogynistic :hexbear-gay-pride:

                  sorry ladies :bawllin-sad: that wolf man got me acting up fr

                • Dolores [love/loves]
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                  2 years ago

                  I’m atheist

                  you don't have to believe in the theology to have beliefs influenced by a religious culture. everyone knows pornography can meet criteria for individuals' behavioral problems, but there is no credible proof for pornography's unique and exceptional ability to inspire such. if all men watch porn, and all men treat women poorly does that mean its porn's fault? or maybe we live in a misogynistic culture whose media production reflects that?

                  scapegoating a certain kind of media production & consumption for a wide range of structural problems with way more consequential antagonists is missing the target. women's liberation is not a personal moral struggle between men & skinflicks, or men and prostitution for our historical analogue---'progressives' banning prostitution to 'help women' put millions of people in jail, underground, and empowered abuse. how about we give porn performers the workplace safety & economic security to decide for themselves what form the industry takes/should it exist?

            • Esoteir [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              This isn’t an argument made by religious people. If you don’t think it fits the bill for behavioral addiction then good for you, but for many it really tripped off their lives. Kids messing up their brains because of what they’ve been exposed on the television doesn’t seem exactly what one would call healthy. Plenty of men are addicted to it, double blind studies weren’t possible because researchers couldn’t find men who didn’t watch TV. Obviously, you’re free to partake in the industry and all, but it’s one of the most exploiting ones out there. It has had an impact on men’s view on women and has objectified them further, not to speak of minorities. It has been only allowed to proliferate because of the alienation present in late capitalist societies.

          • Esoteir [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            not really seeing arguments in this thread i'm just seeing a bunch of straight dudes failing to deal with their religious guilt and failing to observe that nonexploitative porn exists :shrug-outta-hecks:

              • Esoteir [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                question: if I pay an artist to draw a picture of anubis with his dick out, who is getting exploited here, egyptologists?

                Studies are beginning to be done and it’s clearly an addiction.

                could you care to link those studies? because both of the threads you link just have dudes saying that porn is "poison to your body" and "disgusting stuff", which I don't see how you get to that conclusion materially

                  • Esoteir [he/him]
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                    2 years ago

                    Regarding studies, a quick search will bring up a plethora

                    so provide one if it's so easy to find, don't just say "do your own research" and post threads of guilty straight men saying "I would NEVER do to a woman the shit i’m into" while posting NoFap self-help books.

                    the reason why anti-porn usually falls into right-wing pipeline is because it's inherently a right-wing ideology entrenched in religious guilt. Nobody is getting meaningfully hurt or exploited when someone posts erotic fiction of having gay sex with an argonian on AO3, that's like saying films are inherently exploitative and we should not watch them when home movies exist, that's like saying eating is inherently exploitative and harmful when a vegan diet exists

                    you're projecting your mainstream and straight-centric experience onto the entirety of porn, which isn't inherently any more exploitative or addictive than video games or consuming any other form of media, which is why you haven't provided any studies showing otherwise