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I don't think it should be regulated for adults. There is a lot of research just coming out about how it affects developing brains. Just read an interesting study in JAMA Psychiatry about the down regulation of the brain frequently exposed to pornographic material. Basically, beyond a certain point, the more one views it, the more one has to view it, and the more powerful the stimulus has to be, for one to get off. The prefrontal cortex isn't fully developed until the early twenties.
Also, watching porn typically ends in orgasm. When someone has an orgasm, dopamine and oxytocin are released in the brain and body. Yay for the dopamine, but the oxytocin is the love, or binding together hormone. It's what (chemically) makes us fall in love. So the more someone relies on porn for gratification, the more they "bond" with it. It's science. ........
Of course, maybe this is just the way we are "evolving". Who knows.
I suppose it can all depend on the person.
How it might have affected my teen years probably certainly went off into left field. It inspired me for independence, to be out of my parent's home, to be able to call my own shots. Wrong or right, that is the message I took from the magazines floating around, most of them Playboys and Ouis, some Penthouse, an occasionally very hard core (for then).
Further, I did not know the "O" until I was about 20 or so......and that was even after a few visits to old NYC's infamous 42nd Street during merchant service.
Just because one study says it, does not necessarily mean it is across the board. Ever see the study that says "Men say they would rape if they could get away with it." (words to that effect)? I have a problem with such studies because "get away with it" is not really defined.
While studies are a part of my life, one must take each and everyone with a grain of salt at least.
Does it mean hot middle class women are figuring out that getting naked on cam for good money is no less honorable than their mediocre corporate career path in human resources with a realistic ceiling of 60-80k?
They yeah, I guess it's "out of hand."
I think it's fantastic.
Ugly truth that will rile most people: doing porn requires more self-awareness and personal courage than 9/10 women in middle america could ever muster if their lives depended on it.
How it might have affected my teen years probably certainly went off into left field. It inspired me for independence, to be out of my parent's home, to be able to call my own shots. Wrong or right, that is the message I took from the magazines floating around, most of them Playboys and Ouis, some Penthouse, an occasionally very hard core (for then).
Further, I did not know the "O" until I was about 20 or so......and that was even after a few visits to old NYC's infamous 42nd Street during merchant service.
Just because one study says it, does not necessarily mean it is across the board. Ever see the study that says "Men say they would rape if they could get away with it." (words to that effect)? I have a problem with such studies because "get away with it" is not really defined.
While studies are a part of my life, one must take each and everyone with a grain of salt at least.
Right, I appreciate your point of view.
The porn you referenced from your teen years is relatively tame compared to what is available online today.
I only referenced one study because that was the one I actually read yesterday.
There is a lot more out there concerning porn and the neuroplasticity of young brains. There is an excellent TEDtalk about porn and its effect on teenagers' brains: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU
I don't want to quote studies ad nauseum because I'm not a champion for the cause.
I'm a researcher as well, and I understand the value of a single study with a small n. However, pornography is a subject that is difficult to study due to the societal norms and stigma surrounding it. Further, if it is a self-reporting method, participants may lie about frequency/ duration of use.
Changing the subject a bit here...I think one of the fundamental issues with male/female relationships is the general imbalance in the sexuality of men vs women. Men are often comfortable having sex every day. Women are often comfortable with almost no sex at all.
Man, you started to say something good in this paragraph, and then...
Women are often comfortable with almost no sex at all?
Does it mean hot middle class women are figuring out that getting naked on cam for good money is no less honorable than their mediocre corporate career path in human resources with a realistic ceiling of 60-80k?
They yeah, I guess it's "out of hand."
I think it's fantastic.
Ugly truth that will rile most people: doing porn requires more self-awareness and personal courage than 9/10 women in middle america could ever muster if their lives depended on it.
I see.
So I'm guessing you'd be cool with your sister or daughter or grandaughter doing porn? I assume that, while your friends or colleagues bragged about their daughters graduating with distinction from reputable universities, or being accepted into med school, or becoming partner at a law firm, that you would laud the achiements of your daughter, the porn actress? You"d proudly announce that she'd been promoted from doing gang bangs to only doing one-on-one oral? Or, perhaps that, with sheer hard work and a winning attitude (she'd been diligently performing in TWICE as many flicks as her slacker peers), she was now at the top of her industry and had been offered a movie deal that would make her the next Jenna Jameson (gosh, I'm jealous just typing this).
You'd put all those pathetic, middle-class, bourgeois twits - with their silly CFO daughters, their wallflower daughters serving in the military overseas or helping the poor at home, their loser SAHM daughters, or their pitiful daughters with severe disabilities striking out on their own - you'd put them to shame. Once you told them about your "Jenna," they'd be humbled. They'd be full of breathless admiration and felicitations, but desperately wondering what it was that you'd done, that they hadn't, to raise such a courageous, self-aware young woman.
And if it were a SON who'd gone into porn? Even more impressive. Because everyone knows that men in porn are far more intrepid, and demonstrate more bravery than 9/10 of men in middle America (men like YOU ).
I'm telling ya, I'm dying to hear a conversation like that between a bunch of middle class men at the local diner or at the gym. Then I'll believe the sincerity of all the porn ("it's fantastic!") advocates. I won't hold my breath, however.
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I think that video IS porn - in a reverse, repressed, voyeuristic way. Repressed people often develop a fascination with their forbidden fruit so they create a way to explore it with a disclaimer that we're just trying to show how terrible it is.
The USA is the most sexually repressed country in the western hemisphere - and ranks pretty poorly worldwide.
Who cares if this filmmaker loves or hates porn. And nobody is gonna give a dang about what any wilted old justice or preacher says (they are the secretly the worst offenders anyways).
Porn? Yawn. Whatever. Great sex is the best part of life. I say live as large as you can while you can. If you don't want to, fine, just go repress yourself not the rest of us.
Porn in other countries are way more graphic and violent in nature than porn in the USA... just a thought. Not an industry I would want to be in, too much drug use. I have worked with drug addicts and some are so unstable and sometimes commit horrible acts of violence because their mind is not in the right place. I don't know how you would censor it even if you wanted to because since its mostly in the internet.
Wonder how many here are old enough to remember the STAGG films from the early 20's that had NO SOUND.
The Girls/Women did not look like they were being forced...in fact they appeared to be in their 30's including the men and not early 20's as per todays needs.
Saw for the first time the other night a Movie with Marlon Brando "Last Tango in Paris" that showed full frontal Nudity.
Not sure what year it was made....implication was still there.
I am retired in Baja Mexico with SKY TV service that shows many foreign movies that depict many Sexual scenes as being a normal daily function in the country of production....Europe and South America included.....NO big deal with them.
The US is Prudish because of a small number of people that push an agenda along with the Church helping along.
In any event...no, I don't think that the porn industry needs to be regulated, whether we are talking about professionals in that industry or about amateurs.
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