Is there any way to permanently get rid of pornography or censor it from the youth?

[Icechaosss]

There is a problem with forced pornography. And it is a thing.

But regular, normal, consensual pornography between two (or even more parties) is fine.

Again, if a 14 year old is addicted to porn or something along those lines, the parents need to step in and fight the problem.

Casting blame gets you no where until you find a solution to the problem.

[Daevied]

Considering the amount of girls that likes to post pics of themselves naked on instagram, porn industry is probably getting a big hit

[namecraft]

ban the internet, ban books, ban photography

[Ryonas]

News flash: people fuck.

Weird, huh?

[paragraphgorilla]

How about you become a monk and let other people have their porn? Last time you bitched about anime now it's porn?

[blobthebob]

List the things you think are wrong with normal non-extreme non-fetish pornography based on 2 people having consensual sex.

You're constructing a fallacy here. Pornography includes everything pornographic, i.e. anything related to (obscene) sexual content, and the question that was posed was whether or not there was anything wrong with pornography — "non-extreme" and "non-fetish" where never applied as defining parameters.

Furthermore, what's regarded as "non-extreme" and "non-fetish" is shifting and personally and culturally subjective. One thing I'd like to point out, and what psyhologists have suggested, is that pornography also has a desensitising effect on people, to the point where normal penetration doesn't cut it anymore. This could explain, for example, why incest-pornography—fake or real—is all the rage today.

Where do we draw the line? What will people search for when incest is boring? I think you're naive if you believe pornography is benign. Today's easy access to anything and everything is a brand new phenomenon and we'll have to wait and see what the consequences are.

[Unholyground]

I know in the US we try to teach older kids to steer their eyes away from pornography for their own good because it's sinful or harmful, but it seems futile based on the amount of sex-crazed teenagers on average. Parents and teachers still try if the movement of censorship against porn is any indication, but with how sexual content is so integrated into pop culture and all over the internet, it makes me wonder if it's just a losing battle and if it's pointless to even try.

Sex is 100% normal, it is the only true purpose of life. We may be saturated in it and need to educate young people that it is scripted and that sex isn't like that for most people.

[Trollokdamus]

There is a problem with forced pornography. And it is a thing.

I'm not sure why you think it's a problem. Different people have different fantasies and these fantasies are not going away just because you remove pornography associated with them. All you're going to achieve is making such people sexually frustrated, and some of them may start looking for other means to satisfy their needs.

[blobthebob]

Pornographic material has been around as long as humans have had the capacity to depict things, so I'd say that's a hard no.

But the degree of several factors has changed, and that's important to consider. Sure, we can observe ancient pornography in the form of a titty-sculpture, but how does this compare to today's easy access to real-life sexual content of any kind and of any extremity?

[Video Games]

using your favorite video games as an example: Why does Nintendo and Sony strive so much for censorship of the female body then? Even fictional?

Sure thing

[Enthusiastic Steward]

But the degree of several factors has changed, and that's important to consider. Sure, we can observe ancient pornography in the form of a titty-sculpture, but how does this compare to today's easy access to real-life sexual content of any kind and of any extremity?

Ancient cities had carved penises in the cobblestone streets that pointed the way to brothels and big wall frescoes depicting sexual acts right out in public spaces. Granted I get what you are saying, this is not the same as me being able to google whatever the fuck I want right now and get it, but it is also not just 'titty sculptures', it was depicted sex right out in everyone's face.

[Skulltaker]

actually, violence is more culturally acceptable than sex as it is proven and in human nature. Kids love Gears of War, Halo, Call of Duty, all gory M rated shooters among other things.

Sure, fucking is bad, but beating people up, that's all right. I think I'm starting to see what your problem is.

[Sughs]

Why? I watch pornography since like 10. I turned out fine.

[Charge me Doctor]

if you somehow remove their access to all port somehow, how will you stop them from experimenting with each other? This is such a ridiculous idea to begin with. Someone save youth from their own bodies!

[valax]

I know in the US we try to teach older kids to steer their eyes away from pornography for their own good because it's sinful or harmful, but it seems futile based on the amount of sex-crazed teenagers on average. Parents and teachers still try if the movement of censorship against porn is any indication, but with how sexual content is so integrated into pop culture and all over the internet, it makes me wonder if it's just a losing battle and if it's pointless to even try.

You either closely monitor their media devices or just forget about it .
I discovered masturbation even before discovering pornography on the internet and I masturbated to still images of women in the era of the first color screens on phones and mobile internet ,patiently waiting those 6mb pictures to load, so yours would probably be a lost battle anyway . Teenagers will get horny eventually and our only biological goal is to procreate .

Generally the people who are most restricted will end up going to the extremes as it would be seen as a boundary break , something teenagers actively seek to estabilish their emancipation from parent figures .

Instead of thinking how to prevent contact you should seek to educate your children , it's for the best but you making this thread makes me think I'm just wasting my words

[Animalhouse]

Absolutely ridiculous!
It is just crazy how civilization doesn't blink an eye over violence but shrieks over nudity and pornography.
Blood and gore, no problem. A tit or some bush, people loose their fucking mind.

I used to have a stack of Hustlers stashed under a Yucca bush that my buddy and I swiped from his uncle's travel trailer when I was 7.
It is normal and ok. Fighting to repress sexuality CAUSES confusion and perversion. Just look at the Catholic Church, I will spare you the armchair psychology but you know what I am saying.

[Icechaosss]

I'm not sure why you think it's a problem. Different people have different fantasies and these fantasies are not going away just because you remove pornography associated with them. All you're going to achieve is making such people sexually frustrated, and some of them may start looking for other means to satisfy their needs.

I meant - Actual rape in pornography, not like "Rape fantasies"

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Sure thing

Everytime I see you post I fucking smile.

10/10

[Zantos]

Yes there is, and it's to make it illegal with incredibly harsh punishments. That's how we did it for crack cocaine.

And that went so well /s

No. There is absolutely no way to get rid of it. There is far too much of it in every form of media. There is simply no way you could get rid of every single bit of it. Not only that, but its a multi-billion dollar industry. It would be a huge blow to any economy to just shut it out. Keep in mind, we are talking about something that has been around nearly as long as humans have walked this planet.

[Spiral Mage]

It's like the people who say this don't remember what they were like when they were young.
We all were curious and one way or another, we found a way to see what we wanted to see.

My concern isn't whether or not young teens see pornography, my concern is the lack of guidance because so many people keep trying to brand it as some evil, horrible thing. Without proper guidance, they go into it blind and there were interviews conducted with older people, (mid 20s), concerning that experience and many of them expressed regret that they were left to do it without any parental oversight at all.

Note: The people interviewed did not say they wished their parents had stopped them, they instead said they had wished that the subject had not been forbidden in their parents minds, so they could talk to their parents about it more openly and get some proper guidance into it so they could have had a more healthy approach to it.

The problem is perhaps, that pornography is *too* accessible and that means that if they go in blind, they may for instance be looking for vanilla stuff and stumble upon some extreme BDSM that will leave them confused and may warp their perceptions of what is and is not normal. (This has also been demonstrated to be happening - going in blind left them to see things they were not ready to see or did not understand what they saw because they could not discuss it openly and get any kind of parental guidance or insight into what they had seen.)

That is the real issue in my eyes.

I've also spoken to a few people in their early/mid-20s myself and either from them outright confessing it or in the way they talked about their perceptions of sex, it was clear that they had seen things that they did not understand and it left them as stated, confused, about what was acceptable and what was not. To be more precise, they saw staged acts with actors and actresses faking certain elements of it and then came to believe that what they saw was how people normally did it which caused their initial experiences to be total disasters. In several cases, this caused long-term damage. At least one person that I spoke to clearly had never reconciled the difference at all and that has left him a very unhappy and lonely person who cannot understand what he is doing wrong.

I can see at least one example of what happens when you see something you don't understand in the posts above, just on this page alone.

It isn't that young adults are curious and seeing pornography that's bad, it's the lack of support they get when they do become curious that causes it to become harmful.

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I can't believe people still think like this.