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Does Pornography Harm America?

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  • by Anonymous on March 1st, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Anonymous

    Yes it harms America. It harms anyone exposed to it. It is disgusting and wrong.

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  • by ""Account Closed"" on March 1st, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Pornography is a virus that has been infesting this country for years and has eaten away at our morals, families, and friends until little more than a festering open wound is left of some people's lives.
    Those who say that pornography doesn't harm America are more than likely those who partake of it's decadence.

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  • by Baggins on March 1st, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Baggins

    No, it harms people all over the world. All men have penises and all women have vaginas no matter where they're from. I think that porn has had the single-most negative affect on human behavior in the short history of it. That's movies and media. There's been sex since there's been humans but the onset of freely obtained porn has been terrible for the world's societies.

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  • by The Galaxy Hitchhiker on March 1st, 2010
    voted: Yes

    The Galaxy Hitchhiker

    Yes is does harm America.. The long line of broken homes and lives attests to this.

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  • by skep on March 1st, 2010
    voted: No

    skep

    There is something that harms our country:
    1. Politicians
    2. Ignorance
    3. Sanctimony
    4. Religious fundamentalism obsessed with sex.

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  • by Anonymous on March 2nd, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Anonymous

    Adds to the divorce rate, some people get addicted, yeah... I'd say it's harmful.

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  • by razinavarro on March 2nd, 2010
    voted: Yes

    razinavarro

    Pornography is now very easily available for youngsters like myself. While it may not be true to other people, but porn CAN inspire rape and therefore violence.

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  • by Avatar7 on March 2nd, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Avatar7

    Morals matter. America is judged by what we do or don’t stand for. The pornography industry is not regulated in proportion to the profits it produces with relatively no regulations.

    I am a heterosexual Christian. I believe pornography to be against God’s desire for man and that it is a black mark against us as a Nation, not to set a higher standard, for a country who is supposed to be the inspiration of the World under God. That is my personal view.

    Now to address a general view that many of my friends, who are from all walks of life and all religious backgrounds express…

    Look at Tiger Woods. Who, if the news media is accurate in so reporting, won't publicly admit an addiction to pornography and acting out what he sees thereon. Two or more women at a time? I will give him this much, he did go to a clinic and is putting recovery first and profession second.

    Look at Ted Bundy who clearly admitted prior to death that there are men everywhere, totally addicted to pornography and, acting out what they see”. Full knowing he was going to die basically concluded that this is a subject he regretted not being alive to reveal more about.

    Let’s look at David Carradine, dangling from a rope, in female underwear and obviously, from those women who had known him, hooked on the bizarre. I am sure he would never admit any wrong in pornography. He should have heeded his own image on Kung Fu: Grasshopper; “Be careful, for there are those who will try to obtain your powers and give you the wrong direction”. That was a very popular family show. Yet, if American families knew that David Carrodine was into asphyxiation sex, female role playing and the like, most children would not have been allowed to view the show and may adults would have watched something else. Proof of the pudding, he’s dead, under suspicious circumstances which at the very least indicates that he solicited sex and might have been snuffed because of his preferences.

    This brings me to the reality of things told to me in detail by an associate. My friend is not Christian nor does he have any religious ties. He does respect women and think they are ‘special’. He drove for many male and female escorts, including porn-stars. He engaged in extensive conversations with them. He was told repeatedly that 80% of the escorts, hookers, and porn stars were really doing it for the money... looking to the day to get out and retire. They all admit an addiction to their trade and doing whatever it takes to 'get the job done'. He commented that he had never seen a really ‘happy’ porn star.

    One such star, well known, stated: "When I went into the Porn industry I felt dirty. I cried for three months". Then I started enjoying the money and saw it as a means to an end. He was driven to his last 'shooting' after which he said he was going to retire... at 35 years of age. He stated flatly: "If the public could see how many times we 'cut' and 'break' in-between shots and how hard it is, especially for men to maintain an erection on and off and on and off".... "Nobody would find the movies exciting". He also spoke of how many of the women really suffer in the end. He also admitted that the porn industry is degrading to women, many of whom experience pain, bleeding and injuries while having deep or anal sex, or sex where one man is embedded in their anus and another into their vagina at the same time.

    He told of how the business sickens him. He stated that many young girls who are 'auditioned' are deliberately subjected to very large males and expected to 'take it all' no matter the pain. One such girl told him, "I hated the pain"... but now says, "I can't get aroused unless I have pain, normal sex turns me off". She and many of the other girls who were dropped as major porn potentials then slip to the next step down, bondage movies, pain for pleasure and rape videos. I won't go into what he said about 'snuff' porn where women are killed as the man ravages their bodies".

    He stated that 95 percent of his fellow ‘actors’ tire of the business and most of them are incapable of having normal relationships… abortive at best. He also told of how bisexuality and homosexuality was rampant and spoke of John Holmes dying of aids and the probably thousands of people he had infected, an end which many of the stars meet and due to their multiple contacts could spread at an above-average rate.

    I notice that people who uphold porn do so vigorously. In fact they can’t seem to admit there is anything harmful about it, or that it is demeaning to women. If this is so, how come so many female escorts, porn stars and people involved freely admit; they are in it for the money and want to retire and ‘disappear’ into a normal life? Do we have statistics on STD’s and the industry?

    Being Objective and looking at the ‘degrees’ of pornography
    • CHILD Pornography
    • Rape videos, Kidnap videos, etc.
    • Females having sex with dogs, horses, donkeys, Giraffes, snakes, goats.
    • Torture films where pain, blood or terror is involved.
    • Porn video’s where the woman is exposed to abuse by several men, against her will.
    • Porn video’s featuring men of abnormally large size and women who can take it.
    • Porn video’s of women having multiple men entering her or his body at the same time.
    • Porn video’s displaying multiple-partner sex or same sex encounters.
    • Home made movies by want to-be couples sold or viewed on the internet.
    • Porn videos featuring heterosexual one-on-one sex. A loving gentle film.

    What about videos made by men who cruise the streets in vans and pick up women on the dare to have any kind of sex, then film them having sex in the van or wherever they go. Isn’t that called solicitation? Aren’t there laws against it? So, if ‘porn’ takes the turn of engaging in actual acts which are against the law or considered by the laws we do have to be abusive or illegal, then that needs to be addressed. If drugs are illegal, then how does the porn industry get by with showing people taking them and then engaging in sex? Seems multiple laws are being violated.

    What about laws that prohibit false advertising or ‘luring’ of innocent youths into illicit or immoral acts, with the promise of fame and fortune? What about the solicitations on the internet?

    If those defending the industry want an anything goes policy, then this industry is absolutely harmful to our nation and potentially toxic. Yes, I do think pornography is harmful to America. I think, at all costs, our children should not be exposed and measures need to be taken to assure they are not. That means regulation and strong penalties for violators. It means that those who like and love porn will have to become responsible and accountable. It means that those who produce porn will be subject to evaluation and standards gauged to protect the innocent.

    We have to start somewhere and start now. Regulations will not take away the profit from the business, but, hopefully will do away with certain aspects of it. In a society that regulates and taxes everything from potato chips to baby powder, I think the porn industry needs to meet the same scrutiny and prosecution where in violation of laws. I think our ‘laws’ should get up to speed with the new and unusual trend toward sensationalism and the macabre.

    In closing I would like to state that I have not condemned anyone herein. I have reported the actual words of a friend I respect who is an objective and logical thinker. Nor have I stated that those in the industry will burn in Hell, or that they are any ‘name’ which is defamatory or insulting. I have not promoted the Bible or pushed its teachings which would condemn the Porn industry and abolish it forever.


    Why? Because anyone who is opposed to Pornography are categorized by that industry as Bible thumping prudes, cramming our beliefs upon others. Or we have ‘psychological problems’. If we want ‘change’.. or if we believe that the ‘majority’ supports moral standards in America, we are labeled as being irrational, abnormal, extreme, paranoid and obsessive-compulsive.

    If one takes into account cause and effect, laws, common-sense, and above all, protection of the innocent, how can the multi-billion dollar pornography industry suffer? Our National image and the movie or media industries which originated in America should have a standard of responsibility and accountability.

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  • by Ze_n_aY on March 1st, 2010

    Ze_n_aY

    When you drop all the political crap and get down to the FAMILY value aspect YEAH it damages AMERICA because what makes a people or nation at the core of any society is the FAMILY...!!! So these stars are somebodies daughter or son, who eventually have daughters or sons that are exposed to, porn star parents: That then is changing the core value or norm for a child...and we all know that children and pornography will never, ever, be right...!!! So YEAH it should be kept in the red light zone srtictly regulated ...!!! It decays the AMERICAN CORE VALUE STRUCTURE...!!!

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  • by Brian I on March 1st, 2010

    Brian I

    This question sparks the question, "Does Answerbag want to drive away the entire non-US based membership and leave it to become increasingly inward looking?"

    Even the use of the word 'America' when it was clearly only referring to that part of America that is the United States will be found offensive to some people in the rest of America - North and South.

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  • by Maul on April 13th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Maul

    The fact that this says Porn is not addictive is complete bullshit. And this is from someone that is addicted to it. It perverts a man's expectation of women and sex. It ruins marriages. It promotes unhealthy sexual behavior.

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  • by PhileoTruth on December 29th, 2009
    voted: Yes

    PhileoTruth

    It harms all who are involved-- viewers, production staff and performers. (I am not even addressing the matter of voluntary or coercive participation.) The consequences are not always immediately evident, but there are always damnable consequences.

    Fornication, greed, rebellion, covetousness, idolatry are all sins involved with the production of porn. The incitement of others to adultery (Biblically defined as the imaginations and desires of the heart for illicit sexual activity) is the sin that those who propagate it will be guilty of. The viewers are in adultery as their legitimate, natural desires become perversely aroused and illegitimately satisfied through watching the porn.

    Money will not buy anyone's innocence before holy God on the day of judgment. Only Jesus the Christ has paid the price through the sacrifice of His life for the sins of humanity. And those redeemed to God through the blood of the Lamb (Jesus) can no longer rejoice in the sin (including any of the sins mentioned above) for which He was crucified.

    God will judge! And woe unto every society that sanctions and/or tolerates this insidious sin permeating its underbelly! America, for all of the blessings that God has bestowed upon it, is no different and will likely be judged more harshly.

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  • by Account Closed on March 2nd, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Account Closed

    I am not American and I do not live in America, so I can't speak for America. I am Australian, and pornography is a problem here and I would suggest that it is a problem in alot of the world. I believe pornography is the work of satan. It is disgusting, and degrading to both men and women. We live in a sick world. When Jesus returns to the earth He will destroy all evil.

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  • by Gratis on March 1st, 2010
    voted: No

    Gratis

    I have no idea why pornography would harm America? I mean how prudish can you get! I think the most messed up societies always seem to be the ones where natural human drives like sexuality are repressed. That's when you get the incest, the abuse and the teen pregnancies etc.

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  • by Sebulba on March 1st, 2010

    Sebulba

    Yeah it is all a question about America! Porn is a global phenomenon! Why talk only about America? What harms America is the media you ********

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  • by Sunblynd 5.0 on March 1st, 2010
    voted: No

    Sunblynd 5.0

    This is such a retarded question, pornography has been around since ancient times, from the Romans, to the Greeks, Egyptian, India, China, etc. etc., and can be seen scrawled on ancient cave walls.... obviously it does benefit society, otherwise you nor I would probably be here! Pornography is the instruction book of human procreation, as humans, we are visual creatures, in order for us to understand something it helps is we can get a visulization of the procedure! Not to mention that it has been factually proven that community's that allowed the circulation of porn have a far less rape or violent crime rate than compared to community's who do not... And that's the fact Jack!

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  • by Isaac on March 1st, 2010
    voted: No

    Isaac

    Why is this question only subject to one continent? Does no-one care about Europe? Asia? Oceania? They have porn too, you know.

    However, I pick No, as long as it's all legal and the actors are at least 18 and they want to do it, then I see no reason to stop them at all. More power to them.

    The only things harming America are guns, crime, con artists, religions, crazy people, politicians, cultists, stupid people, creationists, the far right, the uncaring, war, and many other things. So really the only thing harming America is itself.

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  • by learn124 on June 8th, 2010
    voted: No

    learn124

    What else would i do for fun when im home alone? Read a book? thats what i do AFTER I'm done _______ ;)

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  • by hallagan on June 7th, 2010
    voted: No

    hallagan

    I hear women say it's degrading. I think women calling men pigs and telling them they have no balls is degrading to there gender. Point a finger at someone and 3 point back.

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  • by beckymadrid on May 17th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    beckymadrid

    Pornography is filthy and it is an open door to Hell.
    It invites more evil thoughts and this fact is taught in the Bible.
    Pornography is the worship of nudity and sex and the reason for much evil in the world.
    Ted Bundy said he looked at pornography.
    I read of a father who looked at it and began to molest his little son until it was discovered.
    His wife went crazy he went to prison and may God help that child!
    How can anyone think that looking at people who have no respect for marriage and the home and family is not wrong?
    Women or men who pose nude or engage in sexual activity for others to look at is alone proof they have no respect for the home or the family or marriage.
    Pornography is not done to bless the world but to engage in sexual activity.
    It is Wrong!

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  • by wooowmeato on April 18th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    wooowmeato

    Porn teaches us to love ourselves instead of learning to have a mutual love relationship. Which just plays into the growing epidemic of 'loneliness' in America.

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  • by buxtonite ..slowly losing my mind on March 4th, 2010
    voted: No

    buxtonite ..slowly losing my mind

    No its not harmful at all, if kids are looking at it then the parents need a good kick in the balls for being to bloody lazy to pull their fingers out and put filters ( and there are plenty of them for free) on their computers to stop kids from looking at it . You have to be an adult to go into sex shops etc and if so then you can make up your own mind if you want to see it or not ... enough is enough with these do gooders who want to screw everyone else up because they know that the ones who they are representing are to bloody lazy to do anything about it so they want to stop all others from this type of ADULT entertainment

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  • by machinerat on March 2nd, 2010
    voted: No

    machinerat

    I had read a report somewhere that said that sexual assaults had actually decreased with the rise in easy access to pornography (not that you'd get the idea of a decrease from the nightly news considering how much they sensationalize every case). It has something to do with the people who would have gone out and comitted sex crimes are instead satisfied with the porn they get.

    Besides, when did seeing a nipple ever cause a kid to go out on a killing spree?

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  • by ClassyCee on March 2nd, 2010
    voted: No

    ClassyCee

    We have other things to worry about other than porn.

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  • by HungryGuy on March 1st, 2010
    voted: No

    HungryGuy

    I think pornography harms Chile and Nigeria, and maybe South Korea. But I don't think it harms America.

    And even if it does harm America in some vague way, I think what consenting adults do in private is their own business.

    Freedom of speech is an essential right, and giving someone the power to decide what speech is "good" or "bad," and enforce that decision on other people, is far more dangerous than any affects that porn may have on "America."

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  • by Caroline on March 1st, 2010

    Caroline

    I cannot honestly answer yes or no.

    It can be harmful when the customers believe that ALL sex is just like what happens in porn, ALL people are that attractive, and there are no consequences to sex. When they start believing (and acting out) this fantasy, it is harmful. However, as others here have already addressed, doesn't this kind of ignorance say more about the individual than the porn itself?

    I have found myself trapped in the ever-persistent allure of porn, and it only seems natural that we humans, sexual beings, would enjoy watching sex on the big screen, especially in the 21st century technological world. I see both sides of the issue; therefore, I can't answer truthfully.

    Ahh, I am cursed..I always find it difficult to take a stand..

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  • by LePoupon is a proper gander. on March 1st, 2010
    voted: No

    LePoupon is a proper gander.

    Its great

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  • by RefreshPerspective on July 22nd, 2010
    voted: Yes

    RefreshPerspective

    Good clean fun? lol

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  • by HeeroYui752 on August 23rd, 2010
    voted: No

    HeeroYui752

    Porn helps people feed that "mating programming" in our heads, instead of just going out there and feeding it. BTW, rape was going on before porn was invented.

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  • by Avatar7 on July 7th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Avatar7

    To: Burf...
    Christians are not forcing anything on you, and your paranoia is a diversion.

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  • by dave4922 on September 5th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    dave4922

    By allowing this to continue we will move ever closer to the edge of anything goes. Pretty soon you will except what ever makes you feel good. I have a four year old daughter, and it makes me sick what the porn industry has done to all of the little girls of the world. This needs to stop, or once again your higher power will clense the earth.

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  • by nikki4tweety on July 9th, 2010
    voted: No

    nikki4tweety

    I'm a female and I find nothing wrong with watching porn. I'd rather watch a few guys or gals f*cking each other's brains out, than be out doing something illegal. Hey I'm not in the movie. If I want to be in one, I'll make my own video at home.

    I think it harms the people that find something wrong with it. I do agree it's not for everybody but don't take it away from those of us who enjoy watching it. That's just wrong.

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  • by Mark on July 11th, 2010
    voted: No

    Mark

    No, it doesn't harm any country, the US included.

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  • by BootToTheHead on January 3rd, 2011
    voted: Yes

    BootToTheHead

    Though its nice entertainment, I have to say, it waste to much time as a distraction...

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  • by A on January 23rd, 2011
    voted: Yes

    A

    Yes, it does cause harm, and not just to America.

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  • by vew573 on February 12th, 2011
    voted: Yes

    vew573

    WHEN your parents were your age, people who wanted to view pornography had to search for it. Today, it seems, pornography searches for you. Says one 19-year-old girl, “Sometimes I’m browsing or shopping on the Internet or even just checking bank statements online when wham—pornography pops up!”

    This is hardly unusual. In one survey, 90 percent of youths between the ages of 8 and 16 said that they had unintentionally encountered pornography online—in most cases, while doing homework!

    Viewing pornography can become a habit with long-lasting, devastating effects. For example, consider a man named Jeff who even after 14 years of being free of pornography admitted: “It’s a daily battle. The desire, although much more subdued, is still there. The curiosity is still there. The images are still there. I wish I’d never started down this hideous path. It seemed so harmless at first. But now I know better. Pornography is damaging, it is perverse, and it is demeaning to all parties concerned. Despite what its proponents may claim, there is nothing—absolutely nothing—positive about pornography.”

    Children are confronted with harmful pornographic and violent Internet videos at an increasingly early age. According to Heinz-Peter Meidinger, chairman of the German Association of Philologists, boys 12 and older often know how and where to find Web sites featuring extreme violence or degrading pornography. While children may appear outwardly tough and unconcerned, inwardly many are shocked and disturbed at viewing it. Meidinger urges parents to be interested in what is on their child’s mind and on his or her computer.

    In a letter to The New York Times, the associate editor of Police Times listed examples of what convinces many in police work that “pornography helps create a moral and social climate that is conducive to sexual abuse and exploitation.” Some examples provided were:

    ● “William Marshall, studying Canadian rapists in prison, reports, ‘various forms of pornographic fantasies may lead to crime.’ Ten of 18 rapists confessed that pornography influenced them to force females to have sex.”

    ● “According to . . . [the] founder of the Phoenix-based Citizens for Decency Through Law, ‘Police vice squads report that 77 percent of child molesters of boys and 87 percent of child molesters of girls admitted trying out the sexual behavior modeled by pornography.’”

    ● “The Los Angeles Police Department points out that in the more than 40 child-sex-abuse cases it investigated . . . pornographic photos were found to be present in every case.”

    ● “Adult and child pornography is used . . . to seduce children into sex. In one case, a 6-year-old girl testified that her father used pornography to entice her.”

    In addition, according to The New York Times of May 14, 1986, the commission on pornography formed by the Justice Department of the United States has concluded from its one-year study “that substantial exposure to materials of this type bears some causal relationship to the level of sexual violence, sexual coercion or unwanted sexual aggression in the population so exposed.”
    True, there are those who disagree with this conclusion, but even they acknowledge the need for control of needless violence and involvement of children in porn, again in effect admitting that porn does affect its users. It ought to be obvious that there is a connection between what one sees and reads and what one thinks and does.

    Despite clever arguments against the idea of links, one thing is clear: Pornographers know exactly why they produce smut and users know exactly why they buy it. Its purpose is admitted by pornographers—sexual arousal. What then follows, whether masturbation or worse, cannot callously be dismissed as solely the responsibility of the user. The product by its very design abuses the consumer. It and its purveyors are every bit as reprehensible as any addictive drug and its pushers.

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  • by RionRow on July 22nd, 2011
    voted: No

    RionRow

    wow people have strong opinions if your porn is the thing that makes you divorce you weren't meant to be.

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  • by Shania on March 1st, 2010
    voted: No

    Shania

    No.

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  • by Spookburger on February 26th, 2011

    Spookburger

    Pornography does good and bad things. To the individual, it can encourage a healthy sexual appetite, but it can also cause the individual to have problems with the opposite sex in the real world if it is abused. It can also cause couples to have a less than optimum sex life (I've seen it happen with a friend), either because one partner is blowing their sexual energy, or because one partner is used to seeing so many people of the opposite sex in action that they are not as excited about their lover. For society, it can serve as a form of population control. People who are addicted to porn are less likely to meet someone and have kids. There are good and bad things about porn, but I think it should stay. We have a right to view it.

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  • by BLUE LOTUS 935618 on December 12th, 2010
    voted: No

    BLUE LOTUS 935618

    no.

    however. if your girl friend sees you with it. jelousey will come to it's peek.

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  • by Max Power on December 17th, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Max Power

    It takes too much bandwidth and slows down the interwebz.

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  • by Anonymous on December 27th, 2010

    Anonymous

    From personal experience, I believe Pornography is harmful to Men and Women. I've experienced - what I thought was going to be great sex, with emotionality, with depth, with someone I felt a connection to. But then Bam - he says and does things to me that are degrading and such a turn off. Pornography unequivocally damages the core of sex which is a beautiful act of expression between two people who care for, and respect eachother. If you need to spice up your sex life - do it between the two of you. Pornography degrades women. If you become a habitual watcher, the message is there. When you start having sex like an (unevolved) animal and treat your partner the same - there is a problem. It's damaging to men. If a man's self-esteem is low for one reason or another, and pornography is instant bliss - then of course. If a man has a chance he'll go to his dick every time. Therein lies the problem.
    It impedes a man's growth. I repeat, if a man has a chance, he'll go to his dick every time.

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  • by tackystore on November 10th, 2010
    voted: No

    tackystore

    Morality is overrated! :)

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  • by Slap Daddy on March 5th, 2010

    Slap Daddy

    I dont think there is much wrong in the viewing of people having intercourse, however porn does not stop there, Often there is simulated violence and rape as well as other extreme and unspeakable acts. there should be lines drawn for what is acceptable.

    Porn is about as damaging to society about as much as the violence in hollywood is.

    I never understood how some find the depiction of violent murder acceptable yet freak out at the site of a nude person.

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  • by Gratis on March 2nd, 2010
    voted: No

    Gratis

    "Numerous research studies (uncited), as well as overwhelming anecdotal evidence, indicate that pornography use is addictive."

    The fact that Nat. Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families can not cite any of the studies they refer to, as well as the fact that they refer to anecdotal stories as evidence, pretty much makes their whole argument self-defeating. This is just a fine example of how conservative nut-cases distort and lie in order to further their agenda.

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  • by ValorNET on March 2nd, 2010
    voted: No

    ValorNET

    Porn is merely a poetic, moving illustration of what is generally the greatest pre-text to what a human can do - procreate. Reguardless of genres in porn, porn itself documents this. If you decide you hate pornography and that which it represents as a whole entity, then you are perhaps reflecting your feelings about yourself, how you came to be, and "humanity" as a "race" overall. You are denying something that amoung all confusing topics in this world is a known certainty. Don't turn your eyes, nor you back away from something just because it makes you "uncomfortable". The reasons you feel "uncomfortable" in itself maybe a stigma you have learned to inherit from some catalysmic event that has occurred in your existence and thus the cause of your affliction which has led to a fear of outward exploration and self enlightenment.

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  • by Robogirl_roboguy_robodog_robocat_in_2030 on March 2nd, 2010
    voted: Yes

    Robogirl_roboguy_robodog_robocat_in_2030

    http://www.spectacle.org/1195/mack.html

    The First Amendment is founded on the proposition, set forth so beautifully by J.S. Mill in On Liberty, that good speech ultimately drives out bad. Free speech, like our court system, is based on a faith that truth wins. If in either case, victory goes to he who shouts the loudest, the system breaks down. Mackinnon believes that men, who have more power and more aggression, will always shout loudest, that their speech is backed by the threat of violence, and that the pornographic speech of men, supposedly protected by the First Amendment, is itself violence.

    Mill not only believed in free speech; he believed that no action should be prohibited that harmed only oneself, that the government should only intervene to bar acts that harmed others. His goal was the full development of the individual in any direction; he knew that in a Millian world, some would grow into stunted monstrosities while others might become mighty oaks, and that was fine. In our world, however, and largely because of sexual speech and sexual violence, women still do not have the opportunity to grow into whatever they will; the fact that women cannot go out alone at night, or travel many places even in daytime without the company and the mediation of a man means that women cannot easily take even the first steps necessary towards full self-development. Mackinnon believes that free speech perpetuates this, that male power uses speech to enforce inequality.

    http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/WarZoneChaptIVE.html

    The First Amendment, it should be noted, belongs to those who can buy it. Men have the economic clout. Pornographers have empires. Women are economically disadvantaged and barely have token access to the media. A defense of pornography is a defense of the brute use of money to encourage violence against a class of persons who do not have--and have never had--the civil rights vouchsafed to men as a class. The growing power of the pornographers significantly diminishes the likelihood that women will ever experience freedom of anything--certainly not sexual self-determination, certainly not freedom of speech.

    A great many men, no small number of them leftist lawyers, are apparently afraid that feminists are going to take their dirty pictures away from them. Anticipating the distress of forced withdrawal, they argue that feminists really must shut up about pornography--what it is, what it means, what to do about it--to protect what they call "freedom of speech." Our "strident" and "overwrought" antagonism to pictures that show women sexually violated and humiliated, bound, gagged, sliced up, tortured in a multiplicity of ways, "offends" the First Amendment. The enforced silence of women through the centuries has not. Some elementary observations are in order.

    http://www.fightthenewdrug.org/About/

    Learning from the past, Fight the New Drug takes a non-legislative, non-judgmental approach. We recognize an individual's right to view and produce pornography, however, once they are educated on the harmful effects of pornography we believe they will choose to avoid it. We only wish to educate about the negative effects of pornography on individuals, families, and businesses.

    In our research, we've found that many people, especially Americans, automatically assume that the anti-pornography movement is at odds with First Amendment freedoms. Under that perception, people are asked to weigh the importance of free speech against the damaging effects of pornography. Fight the New Drug rejects this perception and we will position ourselves as anti-porn, pro-free speech.

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  • by Gratis on March 2nd, 2010
    voted: No

    Gratis

    Has anyone else noticed that they can't rate answers in these "Debate, Powered by OpposingViews" topics? Whenever I click "like" on an answer, nothing happens. Is that a glitch, or intentional sabotage of anyone with "Opposing Views"?

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  • by bthcas on March 1st, 2010
    voted: No

    bthcas

    If a woman finds her partner has compared her against a two-dimensional fantasy object, that says a lot more about the jerk she’s dating than it says about porn.

    Sucha great quote!
    Its true if a woman finds herself dating a guy who can only fantasize about blondes with big tits and makes her feel bad for being a flat chested brunette then he is the LOSER!
    he would make her feel bad about something else if porn wasnt around. porn is great!

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  • by thatsJustme on March 1st, 2010
    voted: Yes

    thatsJustme

    most definitely...tv, computer, even cell phones ...are corrupting our young, innocent boys and girls and now more than ever grown men and women.....they start out innocently taking a peek and the next you know, good stable family men are addicted.....

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