Do you think porn is DEGRADING?

[wonderwort]

How degrading is porn?

I always loved porn but always thought it's very degrading.....

How about you?

 

[Sigma-taylor-E]

No, how is it degrading? there are degrading types of porn, but to generalize all of porn as being degrading is false.

 

[Swellegant]

So if you love porn, and find porn degrading, you must be excited by degradation. Interesting.

I think there are some kinds of porn that are degrading. I don't like them.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

How degrading is porn?

I always loved porn but always thought it's very degrading.....

How about you?

what is porn ans why ya think it a degradins unless ya sudden like neva seen any or know what it is

or ya workin da crowd? whateva

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thankyou

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it not a nut
but nice in their shells

 

[HoodedRat]

Degrading, no; boring, yes.

 

[bulge]

Less degrading thing ever. Man in his own reality. The physical reality of men is the less degrading thing ever.

Religion and the like systematically aim at total degradation.

 

[80KGold]

Only if one guy spits or shits or pisses on another guy. Ewww.

 

[bankside]

So if you love porn, and find porn degrading, you must be excited by degradation. Interesting.

I think there are some kinds of porn that are degrading. I don't like them.

I shall quote this answer because it's a damn good one and I can't be bothered to try to think of a better one when this one's already here.

 

[belamyi]

It's just like watching sports competitions: I don't feel myself degraded at all by doing so.

 

[WaitingIntheWings]

is gay porn degrading? Sometimes but to me for some reason it seems like women are degraded much more in porn. Where as gay porn stars are more "idolized." This is just my experience/assessment though. I admit, I'm not really that well acquainted with straight porn.

 

[hotatlboi]

No I don't think so.

It's other people who irrationally attach a stigma to it.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

is gay porn degrading? Sometimes but to me for some reason it seems like women are degraded much more in porn. Where as gay porn stars are more "idolized." This is just my experience/assessment though. I admit, I'm not really that well acquainted with straight porn.

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anyway

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[Rex]

In a sense, yes. I think tawdry is a better word, but it can be degrading as well.

Once someone does porn and it's discovered, they are going to be looked at differently by most other people. It's kind of tainting.


I think if someone allows themselves to be degraded by doing porn, then yes.



I think everything Jenna is saying in this interview hits the nail on the head.

 

[belamyi]

In a sense, yes. I think tawdry is a better word, but it can be degrading as well.

Once someone does porn and it's discovered, they are going to be looked at differently by most other people. It's kind of tainting.


I think if someone allows themselves to be degraded by doing porn, then yes.



I think everything Jenna is saying in this interview hits the nail on the head.

No it doesn't: it does not make clear that what they are saying is that the problem does not come from her, is not in her, but that the problem comes and is in other people's righteousness. O'RLY is there trying to maintain a deadpan look while thinking "you are just a slut and you know it".

 

[Rex]

I didn't get that from the interview at all.

O' Reilly is a douche, but he's just playing devil's advocate there and she held her own ground pretty well.

 

[belamyi]

I didn't get that from the interview at all.

O' Reilly is a douche, but he's just playing devil's advocate there and she held her own ground pretty well.

Just like I said, because they only made a passing reference it without directly pointing at it and developing it as the topic: they didn't state one reason for adults to think of sex workers as necessarily, objectively in whatever way, inferior. When it came to kids even Jenna was agreeing with ORLY (equally tacitly) that there IS something wrong with sex work, instead of acknowledging the big hurting truth, namely, that it is society who (that ? ) decides that sex work IS wrong, and THAT influences a child's opinion.

The point of ORLY and in fact most people (see how in this poll, half the people who don't consider it wrong to regularly watch porn say that they believe that there IS something wrong wth porn) is that, if it would be bad in your present, it's just as bad in the past. I agree with Jenna, and in fact most people wil do if the topic was not sex, that the past is one thing and the present is another, even if you don't use "being born again in religion" as a justification for it. But you don't even need to make that difference between past and present to prove there is not anything particularly wrong with being a sex worker.

As a child, you can always, out of your own personaity and without any influence from society, find repulsive what your parents do, even if it is something generally considered "decent", so being a sex worker doesn't endanger your kid any more than any other condition, unless there is that additional element of society stating bluntly that sex as a work is wrong, just because it is. I see it ALL THE TIME with self-professed tolerant people who have no problem in being loose and even dishonest in any other sort of work, but never with that taboo subject of sex outside the holiness of "relashionship", which is nothing but traditional wedlock without any sort of priest involved, and with a more open attitude (but often not even that) to dispose of that "relationship" at any moment.


She held her ground pretty well, granted, but that only means she didn't sink... at least not more than most people consider her to have sunk already, while she didn't say anything that didn't make them feel even more above her, after her failing to produce convincing arguments to them.

 

[Rex]

I'm not sure what you're getting at. Having sex infront a world wide audience is always going to be something taboo or stigmatized.

I agree with her in saying that she'll quit when she has children (which she has as far as I know). I think that's the right thing to do. You can put the blame on society but people are only going to be open minded to an extent.

 

[belamyi]

I'm not sure what you're getting at. Having sex infront a world wide audience is always going to be something taboo or stigmatized.

Right, and you'll never be able to know everything or sweep bad people from Earth and that doesn't mean there is no use in investigating and studying and in having an army or a police corps in a nation.

People are always TOLD what is right and what is wrong, because they are ultimately conditioned by the few holding power and imposing their elaborate beliefs or their plain prejudices as the norm that they won't care to elaborate themselves for themselves, so the "opinion" of the majority is in fact an instilled blind feeling that is not actually THEIRS but a parasitic production of the few who have any sort of power over them and spread it among them and infect them with it.
The belief in an absolute truth is the most pernicious trick of human reasoning, because it is ready to accept ANYTHING you attach to it as a matter of course, severed from the flow of reasoning that gives ACTUAL sense to everything, ready to crush everything that opposes it, and incapable of realizing that stepping beyond it doesn't mean falling in senseless relativism.

 

[healingduck]

If you choose to do porn, that is your decision. Period. I personally don't think it is degrading if both people want to do it.

 

[belamyi]

If you choose to do porn, that is your decision. Period. I personally don't think it is degrading if both people want to do it.

For zillions of people, doing porn is wrong. Period. No matter how consensual and professional you make it.

If we don't elaborate, both sides are just as stubborny senseless, closed and satisfied with their own belief in their own truth.