If you try to ban something, doesnt it make it more appealing?

Answer 1

yup to me it does i luv danger and prowling through the forbidden!! Wot? its human nature. Don't tell me you havn't done that before!!

Answer 2

It depends on how you ban it. If you just pass a law against it or put some kind of social pressureor stigma against it, you are going to be ineffectual. If you make the thing you want to ban absolutely unavailable, you will have better luck. In many cases the desire stems from the fact that the thing you want to ban is available, often does not have all the negative implications that are leveled against it, and genuinely does have some kind of an effect that is worth the risk to experience.

If you pass a law against something, it will only make people want to test the limits of the law. If you ban something, and truly make it unavailable, the desire will go away or become mythic. The real shame is that the American Government to date, really does not seem to understand the difference!

Answer 3

In most cases, yes. Our natures are such that forbidden fruit seems sweeter.

Sometimes it curiosity. When someone tries to tell me something is banned, I want to know why. I have to investigate to see if the ban is warranted according to my reasoning.

Other times you don't need to investigate, you know when something should be banned; child porn, strong addictive illegal drugs and food additives.

When I was a teenager, they banned "The Catcher in the Rye". Of course, I had to read it to find out why. I never got to the part which caused the ban because I found it too boring to read. I've tried several times to read it, it's still too boring to finish.

They also banned "Peyton Place". I loved that book. "Lady Chatterly's Lover" was a wee bit boring but I did read it. "Lolita", I read but didn't really care for it.

Sometimes a ban is nothing more than a person in a position of power expressing a personal opinion. I have my own, thank you.

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Answer 4

Yes especially for the rebellious,curious types like myself at times.

Answer 5

Sometimes, unless a good reason is given for why it's banned.

Answer 6

For yourself probably not. Forcing your convictions on others may spark an otherwise uninterested party to examine it more closely.

Answer 7

In some cases yes.

Answer 8

Works well for the forbidden fruit.

Not so well for the forbidden large steaming pile of sh1t.
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Answer 9

I dunno, child pornography is banned and I don't think that makes it any more appealing to the majority of people.

So no, not always.

Answer 10

Yes it does, i think