Hi,
In games, you get that rush when you scatter virtual giblits all over the battlefield. While watching pr0n you degrade your sense of sexual values and desensitize your self to beauty by fostering a false concept of what is desireable.
So, watching people kill each other doesn't degrade your sense of the value of life, but watching people make love does degrade your sexual values? Sorry, but we can't have it both ways. Either seeing images has no effect (riiight) or it does have an effect.
"False sense of what is desirable?" How is that different from what we get from every Bond movie, from every show where a cop or waitress lives in a mansion, from, indeed, nearly every piece of fiction shown on TV or the movies. And why is it more odious to have that "false sense" in matters sexual than it is to have it in other matters. Besides, that "false sense" is fostered as much or more in every commercial for everything from cat food to exercise machines (not to mention in every TV show and movie (ever notice that the female ADA's in the various Law and Order series look nothing like Janet Reno??) as it is in porn.
Now, I'll admit that the porn I've seen has been mostly a turn off. But that has to do with production values, with quality, with the fact that since porn is considered a second class activity its producers put out a second class product. Yeah, most porn is a waste of time, as is most TV, most movies and most games. No more, no less and for the same reasons.
Nope, I'm not saying that you should embrace porn as a favorite pastime. I don't. But I have little difficulty understanding those that do. And, as a long time gamer and science fiction fan, I can understand the effect of the scorn heap on porn watchers -- most of society heaps that same scorn on me for my interests.
--Pete
In games, you get that rush when you scatter virtual giblits all over the battlefield. While watching pr0n you degrade your sense of sexual values and desensitize your self to beauty by fostering a false concept of what is desireable.
So, watching people kill each other doesn't degrade your sense of the value of life, but watching people make love does degrade your sexual values? Sorry, but we can't have it both ways. Either seeing images has no effect (riiight) or it does have an effect.
"False sense of what is desirable?" How is that different from what we get from every Bond movie, from every show where a cop or waitress lives in a mansion, from, indeed, nearly every piece of fiction shown on TV or the movies. And why is it more odious to have that "false sense" in matters sexual than it is to have it in other matters. Besides, that "false sense" is fostered as much or more in every commercial for everything from cat food to exercise machines (not to mention in every TV show and movie (ever notice that the female ADA's in the various Law and Order series look nothing like Janet Reno??) as it is in porn.
Now, I'll admit that the porn I've seen has been mostly a turn off. But that has to do with production values, with quality, with the fact that since porn is considered a second class activity its producers put out a second class product. Yeah, most porn is a waste of time, as is most TV, most movies and most games. No more, no less and for the same reasons.
Nope, I'm not saying that you should embrace porn as a favorite pastime. I don't. But I have little difficulty understanding those that do. And, as a long time gamer and science fiction fan, I can understand the effect of the scorn heap on porn watchers -- most of society heaps that same scorn on me for my interests.
--Pete
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