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Originally Posted by little_tippler
feeling guilty I think is normal for many people in relation to sex and sexual activities. It has to do with social pressure that stems from way back when it was considered wrong to make anything sexual public and also that you shouldn't have sex ever outside of marriage. Yes it has to do with the church. But it has evolved into a generalised feeling where sex is not a good thing unless you are doing it with your spouse, to make a baby, and are not enjoying it (God forbid!). I too have had to deal with this silly guilty feeling.
Porn may be degrading form a certain point of view, but that's not what it's made for. Porn is made for you to watch, abstracting yourself from everything except the people on the screen getting off and regardless if the enjoyment is real or not. It could be real. That's what they want you to think. And it could be you. It could be you enjoying anal with no pain and having sex with multiple partners. It's just fantasy. Porn is harmless if you just take it for what it is. People having sex so you can watch. Sex, that non public thing that you are getting to watch in every detail. What could be hotter than that if all we're taught is that you're not supposed to even walk around in your underwear, or even touch yourself "inappropriately"?
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The same rationalization could be made for the so-called "blood diamonds". They are also harmless if you take them for what they are-a pretty stone. But to do so you have to ignore the fact that possibly children lost limbs so you can have a big fancy rock to show off to your friends.
Again, porn isn't inherently bad. When it's just amateur stuff, or if the actors involved genuinely are enjoying their work, and didn't "fall into" it, then there's nothing wrong with it. But those cases aren't the norm.