Atlantic: What Porn Did to American Culture
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It's also just too readily accessible, and too technologically advanced. Modern porn certainly isn't cave paintings or erotic art.
It also feeds on itself; access to porn in a healthy culture might be fine, but access to porn in a shit culture, with lots of shit parents, and shit standards where no one cares and there's no community, leads to kids starting young and getting hooked and stuff.
And, yeah, like you said, women being driven away from traditional roles also make men more likely to turn to porn.
It's circular; a destroyed society leads to porn consumption, and porn overconsumption further damages society.
There's no easy fix either. Even a ban wont have an effect for 10+ years. Not saying don't even try, but it's difficult to think-tank a solution. Because widespread porn consumption is more of a symptom of a deeper problem, than the root itself.
Prob need to separate boys and girl's schools. Build some mystery and walls between them. Girls would be more likely to be trad fem as they wouldn't be aping boys. Boys would have teachers that wouldn't have to supress the class for girls, and would be less likely to go femboy to compete with girls for attention. Basically the division of sexes would reinforce the traits you need to foster so they make for better partnering later.
There's an easy fix. There isn't a bloodless fix.
Spilling blood is hard because then the situation spirals out of control quickly.
Pacifism got us where we are.
What southern states are doing is a good first step.
Prove you’re 18+, not just with a wink, but actually verify.
Porn site are then removing themselves.
Absolutely not. I've said it before, but that just ends online anonymity, under the guise of 'think of the children.' It's a very slippery slope to full on internet ID.
And, as I've said, it affects everyone, not just minors, since adults need to prove they're not minors, meaning everyone shows ID to access some websites. And what if it expands? It's a hop skip and a jump to demanding ID for other "adult" gated activities...like exercising your Second Amendment rights. "Government needs your ID to even look at gun content" isn't that far removed, for example.
Miss me with that.
Internet anonymity is one of the few good things the current landscape has given us, and we need to keep it, or we lose hard.
Yeah, Ofcom in the UK passes one online ID bill for the entire Internet.
And Airstrip One overnight essentially becomes another hermit kingdom.
You have to prove you’re 18+ to do anything in person and many things online already. You’re either serious about combatting porn or you’re not.
People talk about the evils of porn until they got to wank it. Then they get super serious about privacy all of the sudden.
Easy fix is death penalty for people that produce porn.
We have seen more naked women than our entire line of ancestry going all the way back to proto humans combined
But also less on average than each individual ancestor (in real life, obvious), probably.
Modern society, man. Not even once.
An old joke from Mennonite Saskatchewan:
"See a man with 9 children? He's 'done it' 9 times!" 😄
Porn is a massive part of shit culture. You don't have good porn as it degrades all parties involved and destroys men slowly. You introduce porn into any culture and it destroys the men and lures the women into it for attention.