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Trixie · 11-03-2008, 11:36 PM

There are a lot of things wrong with SOME internet pornography, but most aren't problems intrinsic to porn or, more importantly, intrinsic to INTERNET porn except the volume, and wide/free distribution of it. The speed with which you can consume mass quantities of it (like ANYTHING at this point in the information age with technology allowing you to interact with it and absorb it quickly) is a style of delivery that can desensitize people, shorten their attention spans, makes it easier to dehumanize the people appearing in it, develop compulsions/addictions (like with any video game or repetitive, easy and pleasurable activity but with the added bonus of fucking up intimate relationships, causing sexual dysfunction because you've been conditioned to only get off this way), etc.. And of course the content in a lot of porn does that too as someone already mentioned.

A lot of porn "teaches" people total bullshit about sex and people's bodies (especially women's). But I don't think that's really porn's problem so much as a lack of information (sex education, media literacy, etc.) and to balance it out. There are boys on the internet getting really crazy and dangerous ideas, like that a woman's cervix is a toy to be penetrated.

It also sucks that sex workers (porn models, camgirls, etc.) in prosperous countries with a high standard of living and better human rights have to compete with sex workers in countries where they do more, for less, and under poor conditions that sometimes aren't even consensual and that there are more pimps (aka "webmasters") than the world has ever seen with those middlemen being paid more for sales for doing less work than girls in the content or on cam are. Instead of sex workers getting all of the money for doing sex work, the vast majority of the money goes to credit card processors, affiliates, producers, camsites, etc.

While there is MORE privacy for consumers of internet porn than hardcopy porn, there is LESS privacy for the sex workers appearing in it and no motivation for consumers to not redistribute it for free while there's tons of motivation for affiliates and producers to multiply it and give it away all over the place (even the models' personal, identifying information with 2257) so the chances of suffering negative consequences are greater (more of a problem with society and stupid laws than with porn, though) and, again, the product's (and the woman's work) value goes down because there's so much of it to be had for free.

11-03-2008, 11:36 PM
Trixie Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: near Seattle, WA Posts: 1,850	There are a lot of things wrong with SOME internet pornography, but most aren't problems intrinsic to porn or, more importantly, intrinsic to INTERNET porn except the volume, and wide/free distribution of it. The speed with which you can consume mass quantities of it (like ANYTHING at this point in the information age with technology allowing you to interact with it and absorb it quickly) is a style of delivery that can desensitize people, shorten their attention spans, makes it easier to dehumanize the people appearing in it, develop compulsions/addictions (like with any video game or repetitive, easy and pleasurable activity but with the added bonus of fucking up intimate relationships, causing sexual dysfunction because you've been conditioned to only get off this way), etc.. And of course the content in a lot of porn does that too as someone already mentioned. A lot of porn "teaches" people total bullshit about sex and people's bodies (especially women's). But I don't think that's really porn's problem so much as a lack of information (sex education, media literacy, etc.) and to balance it out. There are boys on the internet getting really crazy and dangerous ideas, like that a woman's cervix is a toy to be penetrated. It also sucks that sex workers (porn models, camgirls, etc.) in prosperous countries with a high standard of living and better human rights have to compete with sex workers in countries where they do more, for less, and under poor conditions that sometimes aren't even consensual and that there are more pimps (aka "webmasters") than the world has ever seen with those middlemen being paid more for sales for doing less work than girls in the content or on cam are. Instead of sex workers getting all of the money for doing sex work, the vast majority of the money goes to credit card processors, affiliates, producers, camsites, etc. While there is MORE privacy for consumers of internet porn than hardcopy porn, there is LESS privacy for the sex workers appearing in it and no motivation for consumers to not redistribute it for free while there's tons of motivation for affiliates and producers to multiply it and give it away all over the place (even the models' personal, identifying information with 2257) so the chances of suffering negative consequences are greater (more of a problem with society and stupid laws than with porn, though) and, again, the product's (and the woman's work) value goes down because there's so much of it to be had for free. __________________ WebWhoreBucks: Girls, a guy and a tranny -- unique indie porn!