What your opinion on pornograhy

Is it degrading to women or is it ok to wacth? Just wondering what your opinon on it is.

 

Sometimes, and yes.

 

To me it's nothing but a promotion of women as nothing but sperm receptacles.

Total objectification really. Instead of looking at women as individual unique human beings with their own thoughts and hopes and pains and fears, they become a pretty face to bust your load on.

There are of course varying degrees, anything from pretend rape porn to a modest hand job, it's still relying on objectification of living beings, like most other things in our society.

How nice.

 

I'm kinda on the fence with this issue. On one hand of course it can be seen as degrading to women as a just a piece of sexual satisfaction/obsession. However if that is the way you think of it then it's not just porn that's degrading but everything that displays women as sexual objects (Maxim, FHM, Vogue, you name it).

On the other hand women are very powerful in porn, so much so that it can be said that they run the business (but of course their wouldn't be much of a business without women). Women in porn make 5-9 times as much as their male counterparts, and most of the time can cherry-pick the people they perform with. Women that perform in porn don't have someone putting a gun to their heads to make them perform, they know that they are going to be displayed as sexual objects. You can say the same thing for male performers as well, some men don't look at porn for the ladies.


My 2 cents.

 

yay for porn

i mean, yeah some of its horrible and degrading and whatever, but a lot of it is really really fun to watch

 

We just talked about this in my Contemporary Moral Problems class. I suppose some good can come from porn... it can certainly allow people to explore their sexuality and to learn about sexuality. I even think that some of my past porn viewing has made me into a better lover. But, on the other hand, it can definitely poison the mind. The best sex in my opinion is about love, equality, and the sharing of pleasure, and most porn depicts sex that is far from that ideal. Great sex isn't just about how loud you can be and how messy you can get... sure, that stuff can be fun, but there's a lot more to it than that, and a lot of minds are becoming more and more twisted as they take in hours and hours of raunchy porn, usually resorting to harder stuff as the mind becomes desensitized to sex. It all depends on how you use it. I can't say I haven't enjoyed porn in the past and perhaps even gained something from it, but I'm also very glad that I don't watch it anymore, and I fear that if my porn viewing had gone a little further, I would have lost the original purpose of sex entirely.

 

I absolutely agree with you there! It's not only women that are performing though, it's also men, so does that mean it can be somewhat degrading toward men? Why is it only women that are supposed to feel degraded, men are only seen to be as good as their dick in porn that I've seen.

 

Yes I agree on the most part BUT many women (and teenagers and children) are forced into it.

I think that porn is very degrading for women.
I have to admit that I watch it a lot, and get off watching it, however it totally turns me off sex.
I try to tell myself that the male mind doesn't work in those ways.. but somehow I can't convince myself of it, and as I said, I am put off sex. Which sucks, but it's as though I can't fight it.

 

Porn is degrading to men and women. Every time a woman is degraded, there is a man or another woman who is degrading her, which is just as offensive in my opinion.

It's sort of true that no one is holding a guns to their heads, but there are certainly women who are coerced into it, lured by the money... could they have said no? Sure, but at some point that doesn't matter when years later they are still suffering psychological damage from the bad decisions they made. Of course we all make bad decisions and have to pay the price sometimes, but it's still something to think about.

 

Earthbyocean - so you like watching porn but it turns you off to actual sex? That's...weird and unfortunate, huh? I don't think I completely understand.

What kind of porn do you watch?

As to the original question...there's a lot of different porn, just like there's a lot of different movies. Some porn is degrading and some isn't, right? And some movies totally suck and some are good. I like watching good porn.

 

Hey MollyBoston, yeah it is weird and unfortunate - I don't understand it myself... but that's how I feel after watching it. hmm.
I watch normal porn - whatever that is - like on the pornhub site. I don't find bdsm-like scenarios arousing at all.
So where can I find 'good porn'?

 

I totally agree, it's a two way street.

True, many women and young children are forced into pornography but that's something totally different in my IMO. I mean forcing anyone to do anything like that is illegal eps children and it's just plan immoral. However, just because some people do porn in the wrong way doesn't make it all bad IMHO.

Porn is degrading to women but it's also degrading to men, and so is any other medium that displays people as sexual objects.

That's exactly how I feel when i watch porn as well. There isn't to much tasteful porn out there if any.

 

Good to know i'm not the only one!

 

I think porn is degrading. I dont watch it but my boyfriend does and i dont know why. Why would someone want to show themselves to millions and millions of people having sex? I personally would rather just make a home video with my boyfriend then watch porn or make porn.

 

I think my last thread has finished and I wish this was my own.Is it okay that I treat it like it is? Degrading sex should be degrading to all the participants shouldn't it? If it isn't nessesary for the completion of a orgasm it doesn't have any thing to do with an orgasm does it? So anything done afterwards definitely serves another purpose which is probably esteem, self or otherwise. Physical gratification is the tip of the iceberg. The psychological part dwarfs the physical. I read an article by Candy Samples years ago about how fantasies serve a positive role and porn seems to help fore fill this faction. You don't have to go out and do all of that stuff. You can just watch it in the safety of your own home with whomever.The mind experiences the stimulus but not your body. A lot of the scenes do resemble a freak show more than the act of three to five people having quality sex.

 

I agree with Allonym.. yay for porn!!
I love porn.. would watch it all day if I could.. I don't see anything degrading about it.. they apparently like it or they wouldn't be doing it lol..

 

i go through phases of it. i often dont look at it for months and months on end. then ill suddenly want to look at it every day, up to an hour or two til i feel its time to go grab mr vibe

 

lol i feel ya.. always a good time for BOB (battery operated bf)

 

my boyfriend say's he's a closet case pervert and he also digs porn and watches it when im not around. i've never dated a guy that loves to watch porn and it really makes me insecure. but when i bring that up it just makes him mad and then he's more secretive. for these reasons, i hate porn. that's all.