Do you think that the ease with which porn is available on the internet is damaging our society?

Question

I can't help but think that it is. There are so many questions on here (from women mainly) about it.

Hey boots: Child pornography is illegal. Isn't that the government deciding where to draw the line??

Answer 1

Definately. The temptation is there and just too easy to access. Porn creates an unseemly view of women and it puts thoughts, ideas in men and women's minds about how their sex life may be unsatisfactory and can lead to ideas of cheating or just being unsatisfied with their marriage when they are focusing on a fantasy. People can get obsessed with porn which clearly hurts marriages.

Answer 2

Really tough question! Some thoughts...
I think extremes are bad. To say porn is bad and nobody should look at it is equally as damaging as saying any kind of porn is OK and can be veiwed by anyone. The idea that sex is bad or that desiring certain kinds of sex make one a bad person is part of much sexual dysfunction. But something as powerful as sex and sexual imagry also must be used with discretion.
I think the existence of porn can aggrivate already existing sexual problems. I'm not sure if it can create sexual problems where none existed before.
Porn is for the most part, fantasy sex, images of sexuality extracted from the whole sexual experience. Much of the human-ness of the sexual partner is gone. So it is unnatural in this way. But unnatural doesn't neccesarily mean bad. Who's to say a little fantasy escape is a bad thing. Movies and daydreaming are escapes from reality that can be quite healthy. But too much checking out from reality and at the wrong times is a bad thing. And too much exposure to porn can give a person unrealistic ideas of what a real sexual experience should be.

Answer 3

Our society was founded on the idea that every person has certain rights that can not be separated from them (inalienable) and among these were: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. The very first right we put down in the Bill of Rights was Freedom of Speech, which is the freedom to express ourselves, but what good is a freedom to express ourselves if no one is allowed to listen.

Sure you are talking about porn today, what will it be tomorrow? Ban other religious views or other ethnic ideas or questionable ideas. I remember another group that banned pornography they were the Nazis during WWII.
Does anyone know the words,"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

Answer 4

No, I don't.

In a free society and economy, people have the right to read/view adult material.

Erotica has been around for thousands of years. It began as painting, sculpture and poetry, and eventually evolved into literature, photography, acting, and video.

Erotica is simply an alternative form of sexual arousal; it is harmless fantasy and nothing more.

The latest estimates are that Americans now spend somewhere around $10 billion a year on adult entertainment, which is as much as they spend attending professional sporting events, buying music or going out to the movies.

Hilton, Marriot, Hyatt, Sheraton and Holiday Inn all offer adult films on in-room pay-per-view television systems. And they are purchased by a whopping 50 percent of their guests, accounting for nearly 70 percent of their in-room profits. One hotel owner said, "We have to have it. Our guests demand it.”

One could take your question, insert the word "doughnuts" and ask if their availability was the cause of so much obesity.

The problem is not with "things" but with people's lack of self-control.

There is nothing psychologically damaging about viewing erotica; both men and women - single and in relationships - do it.

Answer 5

You bet. If porn wasn't everywhere (or pseudo-porn. Nowadays, people being spotlighted by the media wear clothes that are waaaay too tight and skimpy.), people wouldn't think so much about satisfying their carnal desires. If only people would focus on maintaining a happy marriage and raising a family. Then we wouldn't have so many social problems. It's a vicious cycle that never ends.

Porn apologetics say pictures never hurt anybody. They're wrong, and they're usually male. Every woman who's seen her man drool over a naked girl in Playboy magazine knows it. The man starts daydreaming and the woman starts feeling more and more insecure, and then you've got the perfect recipe for a divorce. Divorce is scarring emotionally for the wife and kids. Porn may never have physically killed anybody directly, but its indirect effects are an entirely different story.

Answer 6

"All moderately." that is in easy terms a situation once you immerse your self in it. If we eliminate porn there'll nonetheless be intercourse addicts with weird and wonderful pee fetishes and such. i've got faith the only answer to this situation could nicely be rehabilitation and intervention. i don't prefer to declare that each and all and sundry psychological wellbeing issues initiate with start yet i don't think of drawing a line interior the sand or taking the banana faraway from the chimp is going to unravel an habit situation. Rehabilitation and compassion are the only a thank you to handle those persons. severe circumstances jointly with rape, sexual mutilation and pedophilia could of course consequence in somebody's removal from society yet as for the extra mainstream addict there must be thorough counseling. we've all heard that instruction is often the 1st precedence yet merely making a situation prevalent will not resolve it. one extra element-- i don't think of that intercourse habit expenses are escalating. i think of that the reason it form of feels extra prevalant in society immediately's that we've extra advantageous intelligence permitting us to extra advantageous perceive intercourse addicts and pedophiles. we've the internet which has heightened our information of societal themes and additionally makes our lives particularly much less inner maximum subsequently ensuing in a meant "substantial develop" in intercourse crimes.

Answer 7

Yes, I think porn has the potential to damage perspective, expectations and relationships.

Answer 8

I think it is damaging our society. Especially with the availability to our teens-it is normal for them to be curious and there is too much out there for them to see.

Answer 9

Definitely. Once you start looking at that stuff it creates un-obtainable fantasies. Most of these fantasies are not satisfying enough when recreated in real life. Men and Women then have a hard time getting off on "normal" sex with a loving partner. It is sad really. It takes all of the love and excitement out of real sex.

Answer 10

I think there are so many things that pose a threat to our society that porn is wayyy down the list on probelms.
Ultimately it comes back to your degree of self control or lack of.