Porn, what's your opinion?

[Dragunai]

As long as the people in the videos are happy to be there and its legal for you to be watching it (age / country restrictions) then I don't care.

God knows porn can be a lot of fun to watch and is a nice sexual escapism.

 

[similar.squirrel]

I'm not entirely comfortable with the exploitative aspect, as any of those women frolicking gaily across your monitor could be doing it to get their next fix. Some of it is also downright aesthetically offensive, like the overblown fake moaning and the obligatory high-heels in bed. I'm not fond of seeing naked men either, but I guess that's easily avoided.

As you may have gathered, I occasionally watch it. Hentai is okay, but a google image search always brings up pictures that are bordering on pedophilia, which is just horrible. Ditto the fucked up furry stuff.

So yeah, I tend to not go near pornography much.

 

[UlytimateDestruction]

As long as its not illegal, child pornography, molestation, or someone being filmed without there consent then I'm fine with it.

 

[Ryengu]

Porn is garbage, just because the people in it have no idea how to act XD
That's not to say I dislike the idea of porn, of course.

 

[HotKakes]

I am for the existence of porn but my biggest opinion about it is about the way for paying for it. I spent around a good five days searching and deciding on the securest and most palatable subscription site but a lot of my search always ended with the statement "why pay for it when you can always get it for free". I don't like the idea of getting things for free without paying the author or creator in question.

This is always a gripe for me whether it be in video games, movies, comics/manga, and music. If I'm getting some form of entertainment, I want to make sure I can compensate the artist or performer as fairly as I can. I know that this opinion probably wasn't expected, nor very popular, in this topic but it's what I had on my mind.

Oh, I'm also a fan of hentai manga/doujin manga as well. Funny enough, I spend most of my time searching for the consensual story stuff which is sadly hard to find for some reason.

 

[Spookimitsu]

Viewing? Depends on the age, I'd wager. Too young, and it could be too much for a developing mind. After that, it's all subjective.

last minute edit - personally I think there is way too much of it right now. A virtual inundation, if you will.

 

[RobfromtheGulag]

...anyway my opinion is that as long it's legal I have no beef with it...

I don't know if I'd base my opinion on anything around legality. That's essentially ceding your own decision making powers to someone else.

Anyway; it's readily apparent across various culture's porn that it's misogynistic, yet women still volunteer for the parts.

To the women volunteering, I wonder what their parents were like. For the less pleasant implications like human trafficking, I worry even more.

That being said, as a male of the species I am at times glad someone's decided to take the fall so we can all watch.
Though evidence or no I find it hard to argue that its ready availability changes the mindset of the populace. No longer are teens thumbing through Sears Robuck for the undergarments sections, and I wonder that, if anything, this has lowered the sexual drive of the younger members of society.

 

[Febel]

hey, this should be pretty straight forward. What is your opinion on pornography? As a girl...it doesn't bother me in the slightest. I think some porn can be quite arousing actually. I'm interested to see what others think.

Wha exactly are you asking? Do we watch it or not? Do we approve of it or not? I personally don't watch it but then sex doesn't have much appeal to me anyway, so it's not surprising.

 

[moviedork]

I'm all for porn, I just have one problem with it - why is it so hard to find a cameraman who can hold a goddamn camera steady for five seconds without whooshing over here, turning back there, zooming in, zooming out and just generally acting like a fly caught in a hurricane?

This is why today's Porn sucks. Long Live Older Porn!

 

[Xaio30]

It's a good substitution when you want to get the job done.

 

[Chaos James]

No problem with it (as long as it's legal of course).

People should be free to do as they please in the privacy of their own home and not at the local wifi cafe.

 

[SadakoMoose]

Moar plox...
Seriously though, I think it's just plain dandy.
I just wish there were better porn writers and actors...

 

[DonMartin]

You know, my brother's girlfriend brought this up in a conversation about art once. She said that she had read that had it not been for the revolution of home media, (VHS and then later naturally the DVD) porn would have been continued to be screened in theaters and thus become a more accepted part of society. I mean, if you look at some vintage porn titles (of which I naturally know only what Ive researched, hrm hrm) you can actually spot some really decent titles, some better than the average movie that came out at the same time.

But with the VHS came consumption porn, so to speak, and now it's basically scenes with a certain theme piled together on one dvd, or sold separately online. It's masturbation aid, not an arousing entertainment. (Of course it was the former in the old days too, but not to the same, "private", degree) Boogie Nights is an excellent example of what happened at this time. A film well worth your time, if you havent seen it.

It's a very interesting thing to bring up when discussing art, especially when so many gamers are joining the discussion with a defense of their chosen media, to think that porn could have been considered art and even equal to movies, had things not happened the way they did.

 

[The Hero Killer]

I collect it as a hobby so I'm all for it.

 

[katboii]

with the wise words of Dr Cox: "I am fairly sure that if they took porn off the internet, there would only be one website left and it would be called bring back the porn"

so yeah I'm all in for it

Fixed it for you, you should feel ashamed!

oh god you're right... i feel so incredibly stupid right now. please rest of the world try to forgive me for doing this kind of horrible mistake

 

[cobra_ky]

My biggest problem with porn, as a lesbian, is that it seems that most lesbian porn is made for those who, by definition, cannot actually take part. The Japanese are slightly better about this, as they'll try to make the characters convey some actual emotion between scenes, except in anime where it's like an official law that if you have a movie with two female leads, one of them has to grow a dick somewhere.

yeah, most mainstream "lesbian" porn is made by and for horny straight men. I find that the porn made for actual lesbians is of much higher quality.

You know, my brother's girlfriend brought this up in a conversation about art once. She said that she had read that had it not been for the revolution of home media, (VHS and then later naturally the DVD) porn would have been continued to be screened in theaters and thus become a more accepted part of society.

Eh, i'd have to disagree. i really don't think that alone would have been enough to overcome America's cultural taboo on sex.

 

[Aerodyamic]

Yup yup.

It's also funny that they claim that the fashion of women in porn having entirely shaved pubes encourages pedophilia when sexual crimes against children, while still unhappily high, haven't increased at all and certainly not because of this.

And yeah, females as the dominant seems to be more popular. It's probably because the kind of guys who get off on being in charge don't get the same enjoyment out of watching it, while there is much more vicarious thrill from seeing someone else being dominated.

I think it also has a lot to do with more men being willing to admit that they can be aggressive and manly in their public persona, but can also be submissive in a more intimate setting. Mind you, there's still some people can't seem to fathom that submissive and aggressive aren't mutually exclusive.