Is pornography good or bad?

Question

Many Americans think pornography is bad. Especially many women, who think all pornography is sexist.

Do you agree?

Or do Americans just have an overly puritanical and uptight attitude about sex?

Should we have widespread availability of pornography, like they do in Europe?

Or should pornography be banned, like it is in Saudi Arabia?

Answer 1

porno is great and I'm a woman and I fully encourage my man to have some.The only reason most women don't like it is cause they are intimidated by the women in pornography.Men are visual creatures and nice looking women do it for them.And its not sexist because the women that get into it know and fully understand what it is they are getting into.However I do not agree with snuff and those who produce it should be thrown in jail. and Americans like to think they are Conservative when it comes to sex but they all love it or they wouldn't be sold on half of the stuff they buy.

Answer 2

Pornography is a disgusting thing to me.
It does demean, and disgrace women. Many men/women feel they are being deprived of so called great sex, when their partners are not doing what these women/men, are doing in the porn flick. That thought is so unfair. Sex is a beautiful thing, made by God, for the reproduction of children, and for the enjoyment of the married couple. It bonds them and relieves their stress.
If you base the sexual act on unrealistic filth, then all the good about it goes out the window, so to speak.
Many men grow up feeling that pornography is okay to watch. This is because they are not taught the truth of it. This is all fake stuff, it is just gross entertainment. Many men cannot get girls like these girls, who demean themselves on porns. They are just doing it for the money. For the fame, and to make themselves liked by men. The wrong men.
How many children have been exploded, because of child pornography? Parents need to protect their kids from this awful world, of over sexed, and disgusting, unclean behaviors.
And teach their kids what love and sex is all about.
If you shoot a bullet into one ear, and it comes out the other, won't it do damage to the brain? Pornography is just like that bullet, it damages ones thoughts, eventually ones actions.
Even though some countries have more of it then others, does not make it more right. I don't agree with all the things done in Saudi Arabia, but I do agree with pornography being banned.
Many rapes of women or men have been done because the rapist has a warped mind, and they watch alot of porn.
I certainly don't want to watch something that may promote this kind of behavior.

Answer 3

I think Americans have some extremely weird ideas about sex. It's like our national consciousness with it never matured past the 13 year old stage. "Ew! But look, naked lady! But ew!"

Porn can be good or bad. The major problem with it is if it's all the same thing. Like, I have no problem with movies featuring skinny, large-breasted, hairless women who are pushed around by their men. Some people get off on that sort of thing. If that's the only thing displayed, though, it risks making people believe that's the only sort of thing that's okay. It turns into a vicious cycle. The US has some unhealthy ideas about sex; it makes movies and porn that rest on those ideas; those ideas become more entrenched in our society. Without other options, how are we to know that, sometimes, women like having casual sex who aren't pathetic losers? Or that, sometimes, men are loving and considerate and looking for commitment? Sex and relationships are learned, and, for better or worse, media images are one of the ways we learn nowadays.

I really think we need more porn, but not more Playboys. We need stuff like they do have in Europe. We need images that show other kinds of sex than we're used to seeing, like loving sex or friendly sex. Banning pornography does nothing but drive it underground and make it more seedy.

By the way, women do like porn, too, and we're not completely driven by romance. Porn for women gets called more flowery things, though, because women aren't supposed to be into sex. What do you think romance novels are for? What about those long, drawn-out sex scenes in some romantic movies? I think that if more porn films and porn pictures were geared towards women, more women would buy them. I mean, the Oxygen network plays soft-core porn made in Canada for women on weekend nights. That's gotta tell you something.

Answer 4

Great to most men, bad to most women. Women are not really visually stimulated like men, who can rub one out to almost any stimulus. Women need emotion involved, cuddling and stuff like that. I don't think it should be banned, because it will do no good with the internet so easily accessible; plus, where do you stop with the censorship? Is Victoria's Secret considered soft porn? Cosmo? If you forbid something, people are more apt to take notice and more will imbibe in the decadence.

Answer 5

I agree. Porn only leads to a life of destruction and perversion. We have so many rape and molestation cases in this country and when we check their backgrounds' the attackers were porn viewers. I think it should be banned or @ least to have restrictions. Damn, this country is so twisted.

Answer 6

How is watching people have sex on TV worse than watching people die on TV??
More people watch TV shows that deal with homicide, violent acts and abuse than people who watch sex.

Answer 7

less whores. save some wives from having to bang their husbands ten times a day.