Not sure why this made me laugh

[Doc]

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.

I dare say playing games has allowed me to preserve human life :huh: There has been plenty of times I have wanted to physically strangle somebody, and, have instead, gone and battled an orc or a flame spewing ninja or two till the feeling passes. I am a staunch pacifist who dislikes violence, but, even I need to blow off steam or expel primal urges once in a while. Blowing crap up in video games is a good way to do it. I value human life in all forms, and will fight to defend it, even with folks I do not like nor care for in the least. So no, violent games don't degrade my value of life. But then again, I don't play Grand Theft Auto or games like that.

As for degrading your sexual values, watching most porn does. Unrealistic expectations. Most women do not have boobs the size of basketballs. People have a hard time unstandering what they see in a porn film is not a realistic situation. That 15 to 20 minute sex scene probably took 2 days to film, many out takes, and that poor guy probably fired a few rounds before he was supossed to or could not even get it to rise on command from being overspent and under to much pressure. And people feel disapointed and inadequate because they don't have sexual marathon stamina like the folks on film, hence the need for so many pills, enlargers, boosters, etc, almost all of which are snake oil. The whole porn industry is designed to down other people's sense of self worth, so these products can be sold. And I am quoting Larry Flint on that one. It's one of the greatist cons ever and each day thousands of idiots line up waiting to have their money taken. Larry had much to say about his own industry. I like him. I think he's funny. And when he said that porno makes men feel inadequate, so they go out and buy these magazines and tapes to satisfy themselves, only to make themselves feel even more inadequate, creating a vicious cycle that makes him rich, I found my self almost admiring him for his business savvy. Folks who are very addicted to pornography would rather be with a video or a mag then another human being, mostly due to the fact that most women don't meet his standards, either turn him down flat, or wont give him the time of day. And since he is not Ron Jeremy or one of the Titans, he feels let down and full of shame. So, he would rather do his thing with videos rather then be put down, as he thinks in his mind will happen, or let down. Sex is a normal healthy fun activity, and negative feelings should not be involved. No guilt, no fuss, no muss. And it should be more then just a biological urge. Humans are quite capable of shagging as a recreational activity as well. I am no prude, I don't believe in sex through a hole in the sheet. But I don't think it should be filmed and milked as an industry. Perhaps I have a skewed view on the issue because I was raised in whore houses and brothels where my mother worked.

I don't watch much TV, so, I don't know. I occasionally watch the Animal Planet, The Learning Channel, Discovery Channel, or the History Channel. I also watch SciFi every so often. Usually, I am at the computer or reading a book. I have watched TV grow from tiny 5 inch fuzzy snowy gray screens to what they are today, and, you know what? It's still little more then a novelty to me. The only show I watched religiously was Carson and when he went off the air, well, not much reason to turn on the TV anymore. I guess it's because I don't flood my mind with crap is why I hold the views I do. Hmm. There is a lot of crap in there, not quite an accurate statement. I don't flood my mind with certain kinds of crap.

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.

I agree!! Most of the computer games I play are crap. I could be doing better productive things. I could be tackling my list of Books to Read Before I Die. Looking over a budget for the 561st time trying to figure out how to squeeze out a few more bucks. Teaching my animals how to do more tricks. Getting around to learning to speak other languages fluently. Improving my terrible writing skills and contributing more time to worthy things. But I am a cranky old fart who likes nothing more then to sit in his chair close to the wood burning stove feeling the heat seep into his old bones. And it's all crap. Bad crap even. My computer as a productivity tool is a total lie... I am hooked on gaming. And SciFi novels are a total waste of time as well, and God bless 'em for it. I have been on a Piers Anthony kick again, and damnit, if I could just put the damn things down, I could get some real reading done. I have a great book on human dream sequencing and sleep stages, but I have yet to make it past the intro. I am still trying to finish a rather dry buy informative book on the guns of the Civil War. And that book about how folks today are violent and misbehaved and get things like body piercings because they have so few sanctioned rights of passage in our modern day culture and how we are all screwed up and have little sense of self worth is mighty interesting buy darn it, Isle of View is a whole lot funnier. And dadnabbit, when I should be reading Blight, a book about the state of affairs of the homeless underworld, I am reading Stephen King or Robin Cook or something scary when I can't sleep and it's past my bedtime. (Stephen King only becomes interesting oddly, when it's past midnight. Otherwise, I can't seem to get interested)

Geeze, I can only imagine what Mr. King and Mr. Anthony do to my "false sense" of whatever.

But I still do not understand porn and the big facination with it.