What is your opinion about pornography?

Question

Is it healthy? Is it not? Is it dangerous? Is there a problem with it, if so, what?

Answer 1

itss funn =D

Butt you'd probably have more fun with me ;)

Answer 2

Pornography is wrong. Dangerous as in a addiction. One type of pornography leads to another. For example child pornography. The people on the video are not you and will never satisfy the need. Only makes urges stronger. Why look at pornography when you have that significant other in front of you to fulfill those needs. Pornography is another world of acting. What is the use of pornography when you are married?

Answer 3

Pornography, created by, and for, consenting adults, is no skin off my *ss.
I don't know if it's healthy or not, dangerous or not. As to problems, it's a little too easy to obtain; even 'innocent' word searches on the Net can result in pornographic imagery being in the returned results of a search. (And people ask me why I am such a bibliophile when it comes to doing research!)

Later Daze! =)

Answer 4

I have seen guys ruined in their human relationships by pornography addictions.

Pornography is degrading to women and men "depicted" and turns them into things rather than persons who need love.

Porn has been often a fuel for sex crimes of all sorts.

Answer 5

I think it's very sick, disgusting, & degrading and I can't beleive it's actually legal. But I guess if the government legalizes cigarrettes & brothels & websites about pedophile fantasies, they'll legalize anything. And yes, it is very dangerous because it causes very distorted thinking about sex and is very damaging to relationships both emotionally and sexually. And most importantly, it goes against everything God meant for sex to be, which definetely is not that.

Answer 6

First, let's refer to it as erotica. Porn is just a pejorative term, and what I would call the "cheaply made stuff."

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.

Regarding fantasy, Helen Fisher ("The First Sex," Ballantine Books, Feb. 2000) says that 71 percent of men and 72 percent of women fantasize while having sex with a partner. Men fantasize about conquest and domination, women about submission and surrender.

Dr. Joyce Brothers says, "It might relieve some of your guilt to know that many happily married individuals who have no thought or intention of ever betraying their spouse have sexual fantasies about someone other than their spouse."

Both men and women (single and in a relationship) have shown a desire to enjoy erotica in some form.

Women should take note that there is a very successful series of erotic anthologies called "Herotica." The stories are all written by female authors - not male!

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.

The erotic industry employs in excess of 12,000 people in California. And in California alone, it accounts for $36 million in taxes every year.

Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, pulled in $50 million from adult programming, and an adult spokesperson estimated that DirecTV pulls in a few
hundred million annually.

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.”

There are well over 800 million rentals of adult videotapes and DVDs in video stores across the country, and that's not 800 guys renting a million tapes each.

As long as a partner is taking care of his/her obligations and responsibilities (job, family) and seeing that the other person is being fulfilled sexually, there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with enjoying alternative forms of arousal.

Too often, a woman's reaction to their partner enjoying erotica is one of offense; their sexual identity is somehow threatened; believing that their partner's arousal and satisfaction should come exclusively from their vagina/mouth/hand. That is sad.

There are men in this world that are totally threatened by women's sex toys (vibrators, dildos, etc.), feeling that a woman (their wife, gf) should receive pleasure only from THEM. That is just pathetic. They have some serious self-image/penis issues to deal with.

And then, there are many couples such as ourselves that enjoy a mature, fully-developed sex life.

Answer 7

it's wrong because a kid could see it and get some things stuck in there mind for the rest of their life. And it's just lustful. Jesus said that lust is adultery.

Answer 8

i belive its ok if ya single or if u can share with ya partner but its very dangerous if only one of a couple is in to it

Answer 9

No- not in general..however, if you are married and your spouse do not agree, it leads to trouble b/c you are supposed to respect your partner and if they don't want you doing, then you shouldn't be doing it. If both people are ok with it, then it's not a problem that way either.

Answer 10

i think its sick to go on and see a bunch of sick pple showing their bodies off and having sex. its sick.
its not unhealthy physically, but emotionally yes. bc u wont have a decent convo with a girl without thinking about porn. i think porn should be shut off PERMANENTLY

Answer 11

When you consider that it is actually women who are getting paid to have sex (prostitutes) AND they are videotaping themselves, I wonder how it is even legal at all.