(nsfw) What's with the taboo with pornography?

What pun?

I guess I grew up differently. I was never told it was wrong. We actually never talked about it. My parent had porn. My dad had dirty magazines. I know because I was looking for something in there closet and it was there.

Porn is good and visually stimulating especially Food Porn and of course Camaro porn

I think that the main issue against pornography is that it desensetizes one to the reality of what should be a union and sharing beween two people. It builds up a tolerance, so to speak, in many cases, that require more stimulation to acheive the same effect. The next thrill is ever sought.
It publicizes and cheapens what should be private and valuable.
If one can keep a sense of proportion, I’d say that porn is ok in its place. I look at porn on the internet occasionally. Then I forget about it for a few months. It does not consume my waking hours, nor would I want it to take the place of a real relationship.
But the younger one starts looking at porn, I would think, the more susceptable one would be to falling into the trap of beleiving that sex is merely the scratching of an itch, or that real life relationships should be based on superfluous and unrealistic expectations without any reasonable knowledge of what foundations are necessary for a true adult relationship.

I think it’s because when you watch porn, the men are always thrusting so hard and the girls are always screaming! Some even crying!
That is what I think is bad about porn, most of the guys get ideas from porn like oh ” women like it hard and rough” to me that’s abusive!

Hope you understand where I am going.

Porn is the ultimate Objectification of the Human body. Sensuality is the ultimate Personification of the Human body.

Never the twain shall meet.

1. It objectifies women.
2. It objectifies men.
3. It objectifies true sacred and spiritual sex.
4. It carnalizes something that is natural (normal, sensual, consenting, loving sex) and through its “freedom” makes it look/feel like something dirty and forbidden and thereby, makes it that way.
5. It abuses the people who make the films/photos…low page and wages for abusing their bodies while the directors/filmakers garner most of the profits.
6. It sets up men (mostly) to believe that it’s okay to objectify women/men in that fashion.
7. It sets up men to want women/men to look and personify those objectified women/men leaving in its wake a lot of people who are hurt and damaged by men who keep looking for that “ideal” which does not exist.
8. It also attracts a lot of unhinged people who prey on children. That to me, is heinous.

In the end, women/children are usually (once again) the ones who bear the great horror of what pornography does to the human psyche.

I was going to post, but I could not have said it better than @DarlingRhadamanthus so I will just say “Hear, hear!”

It is not wrong in the same sense that murder, theft and fraud are wrong. These things are actually assaults on specific individuals.
No one is directly being harmed by pornography ( there is evidence that it desensitizes some people to the extent that they can not function sexually unless they are modeling their sexual behavior after pornography. That would suck of course, but people always make mistakes-too bad) If a person objects to it, they merely need to avoid watching it. The objection to pornography is the same as the objection to drug use and prostitution. There is a consensus, correct or not, that these industries give a niche for an undesirable element in society. The notion is, that if you take away this niche, they will be compelled to find their lives and fortunes in an area of endeavor that is more palatable to those who find it repulsive. That might or might not be true. I happen to think they will just find one more dark corner to work out of. But that is another question or thread.
Regarding that it objectifies people and behaviors-forcing me to pay taxes to pay somebody else’s bills objectifies ME. Can I use that argument to lower my taxes? No? I didn’t think so.
Speaking only for myself, although I do not appreciate porn, and I understand why it is taboo, what is the big deal? All I have to do is not watch it. Seems simple enough to me.

@josie Most of the population are not as sensible as you are, snookums. And the real damage is the same as the reason that thirteen year old girls are starving themselves and being clinically depressed. It shows women a standard to which they feel they must aspire if they want that elusve male approval. It’s not the only cause, but it is an integral part of a much larger problem in our society and helps perpetuate that problem.
Young boys are not as pychologically mature, and are indoctrinated early in how they must behave to fit in, and watching porn when possible, trashing women and trying to get laid are part of that whole persona that they are told they must imitate to be “maculine”.

Harm comes in many flavors and is not always immediately perceptible. Yes, women and children are harmed in many subtle ways. But this desensitizing of men (and more recently women) may be just now coming to the forefront of our awareness. Interesting that wide spread internet usage has only been present for around 20 years in the United States. This suspiciously parallels the falling testosterone levels in American males for the past 20 years as well.

Depends on who you ask and what kind of porn you are talking about….

Some feminists think that some or all porn objectifies women.

(Other feminists think that some or all porn is liberating for women.)

Religious folk may raise objections to it on moral or spiritual grounds.

Legal and governmental authorities may take issue with the drug, STI, and taxation aspects of the industry.

All of these are reasons why taboos arise. That, and the fact that our society has always had weird hang ups about sex anyway.

I think it creates the wrong image of how women and men should be, I mean lets face it, how many of us actually have sex lives that are like that? those of you that do, kudos…I think How many women and men are so well maintained in such areas?
It creates a pressure of image which combined with magazines and all the other forms of mass media are the reason I can’t eat cake without feeling at least a little guilty.