Pornography, should it be banned?

[ThePenguinKnight]

Banning porn infringes on our freedom, therefore I do not support the banning of porn.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

- Sets Unrealistic Expectations? So? Porn probably won't make you a great lover, but then, lots of women like porn, and like to be treated just the way the girls in porn do. So maybe your friend just needs to find more interesting women? They're out there. The only real unrealistic expectations I find with porn is based on the fact that porn is meant to be watched. Everything is open, and that's just not how sex works most of the time. Things that are awesome become uncomfortable when you're also having sex with a camera.

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that comment kind of bothers me for some reason,

I dont think somone should feel bad about not being comfortable with certian things, I don't know what goes on in porn but I dont think anyoen should be "expected" to like certain things...

I made the comment hastily but I didn't quite mean that. All I mean is, it doesn't HAVE to set unreasonable expectations. The argument of "unreasonable expectations" usually comes with the idea that women don't like doing certain things and we should feel bad for wanting them. I just think that argument is bullshit. That's really what I meant, and you might still disagree, but that's a little clarification. Of course someone shouldn't feel like they HAVE to do something, and if someone incorrectly expects you to, I completely think you should tell them to get stuffed. I just don't think "unreasonable expectations" is a very good argument against pornography

It's also because some things look better on camera than they are in real life, female orgasms aren't as easy to produce in real life as they are in porn, and porn stars tend to be unusually attractive/have done things to themselves to make them more photogenic that not everyone has done in real life (completely shaving body hair, circumcision, etc.) There's a famous quote from some porn director or another: "I'm not paying you to enjoy yourselves, I'm paying you to look like you're enjoying yourselves." It kind of says it all.

However, I still don't see how this is a bad thing; romantic comedies provide much more unrealistic expectations about relationships than porn does about sex, yet you don't see anyone pushing for them to be banned -- despite being pretty much the entire reason for the confusion over "the friend zone."

 

[evilneko]

Of course porn shouldn't be banned, especially when apparently porn ads are the only things keeping the Escapist afloat!

 

[Bertylicious]

All the pornography sites should be replaced with sites about Jesus. I guess it would be acceptable if they were about Buddha or Mohammed or one of the other ones if the nation that hosts the ISP is in to that.

Also we should use science for a godly purpose like eradicating the orgasm.

 

[Space Spoons]

If we're going to ban porn, we might as well ban every other form of entertainment that depicts something that someone, somewhere, might possibly find objectionable maybe.

 

[Jodah]

Banning anything is stupid. All it does is force it into underground, unregulated, and unsafe conditions. It didn't work for alcohol prohibition, it hasn't worked for drugs or prostitution, and it wouldn't work for pornography. The best way to make people want something is to say they can't have it.

 

[Vhite]

Yeah and with little push from politics were are sexually back in 19 century.

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

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Let me ask you something,....

Spoiler: is your friend Andra Dworkin?

 

[SomeRandomFaggot]

No, for all of the reasons above.

 

[superbatranger]

I wonder what your friend would say to women who say porn is good.

 

[Don Savik]

Objectifies women?!?!??!?!?!?!?

Ask him if he has chiseled abs and a 6 foot penis.

Because I guarantee 90% of us guys don't.

 

[ElPatron]

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You're clinging on saying that making things illegal won't result on anything. I am saying I don't want more things illegal.

But crime isn't "airtight". Prostitution, forced or volunteered, is related to pornography (voluntary or forced). If you find prostitutes, you find pimps who want to defend their territory and you have guns. You have people making "favors" to politicians and the authorities.

 

[Smiley Face]

Basically the only thing you really need to say is "Hey, remember that time when the United States banned alcohol and nobody ever drank again and there wasn't a total rise in organized crime, corruption, and violence?"

Wow, I do applaud you. That is a perfect way to counter those arguments. You sir win an internetz.

I concur. When you're looking at any sweeping proposition like that, it isn't enough to say "what would happen if we did it?", you have to say "can we do it?", and in the case of pornography, the answer is no. When you try to ban something so ingrained in culture, and something that is so EASY to manufacture, you can't actually do it - at least, not without creating 1984-world, but I think that's going a little far to stop the evils of porn. If you can't effectively ban Alcohol, a substance, or even today, if you can't effectively ban other illegal drugs IN THIS DAY AND AGE, which have to be produced, how can you ban something for which you only need a camera? Wait, never mind, it would be outsourced, and then, assuming the ban withstood the outcry of job loss, it would just be a problem of preventing distribution, which, again, is pretty damn hard.

 

[backinthepresentfuture]

taking away porn would make most peoples already pathetic lives, even worse.