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Do you think there is too much smut on the internet?

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porn ruined the interwebs...its not some big truck you can keep dumping porn on...and then you all complain about slow internet when the tubes are clogged by the porns...stop clogging my interwebs with your porns
 
Felix, I disagree to a point with the claim of "too much" - how can there be "too much" of something when essentially the volume of "stuff" on the internet really has no limit. It's not as if you could say "the internet is three quarters full, and more than half of the stuff on there already is porn." One of the problems is the way in which sites get indexed. As porn is business, there's a huge incentive for them to get as many clicks as possible. It's a race between search engines only finding what's relevant to your search, and porn sites managing to get placed as highly as possible on various searches so they get more clicks & more fractions of a cent of advertising revenues.

However, Felix, I think you have the right idea, but overlooked the most obvious sources. It's not the internet - it's that other monitor in the house, the television. Look at the types of shows that are being marketed to pre-teens and younger teenagers. In fact, rather than go on for 4 or 5 paragraphs, allow me to summarize my point with one television show: My Sweet 16 on MTV. About 15 years ago, I hypothesized that MTV was partially responsible for the moral decay in society. I think they read my posts on the issue back then and said to themselves "Only partially?! We can do better than that." They and their competitors have been competing ever since for a larger piece of the pie, showing more and more outrageous behavior, oftentimes, of course, prefaced with "don't do this at home" i.e. Jackass.

You seem to think that kids get these ideas from the internet. I think you missed. These ideas were first thrust at them on television. The internet is the medium these kids are using to copycat what they've seen on the networks.
 
Originally posted by: lokiju
Originally posted by: her209
Originally posted by: clamum
Nope. 1Guy1Cup ftmfw.
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Wat?
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Do yourself a favor and don't look it up.
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Ugh I made it a point NOT to watch this. Then Stileproject had a link: "Do not click this link Do not click this link Do not click this..." Obviously, I clicked it. YEEEEAAAAGGGHHHH!!!
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Felix, I disagree to a point with the claim of "too much" - how can there be "too much" of something when essentially the volume of "stuff" on the internet really has no limit. It's not as if you could say "the internet is three quarters full, and more than half of the stuff on there already is porn." One of the problems is the way in which sites get indexed. As porn is business, there's a huge incentive for them to get as many clicks as possible. It's a race between search engines only finding what's relevant to your search, and porn sites managing to get placed as highly as possible on various searches so they get more clicks & more fractions of a cent of advertising revenues.

However, Felix, I think you have the right idea, but overlooked the most obvious sources. It's not the internet - it's that other monitor in the house, the television. Look at the types of shows that are being marketed to pre-teens and younger teenagers. In fact, rather than go on for 4 or 5 paragraphs, allow me to summarize my point with one television show: My Sweet 16 on MTV. About 15 years ago, I hypothesized that MTV was partially responsible for the moral decay in society. I think they read my posts on the issue back then and said to themselves "Only partially?! We can do better than that." They and their competitors have been competing ever since for a larger piece of the pie, showing more and more outrageous behavior, oftentimes, of course, prefaced with "don't do this at home" i.e. Jackass.

You seem to think that kids get these ideas from the internet. I think you missed. These ideas were first thrust at them on television. The internet is the medium these kids are using to copycat what they've seen on the networks.
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You know DrPizza, we are in agreement here.

TV is a source of decay. While its origins via certain movies and TV shows is debatable, I point to the Simpsons (lack of respect for religion and anything morally based), Family Guy (whos writers will stop at literally nothing to get a cheap laugh), and as you mentioned certain shows on MTV (where your ONLY worth is sexually based).

Oddly enough, back in 1989 I wrote a letter to Nickelodeon telling them that I admired the fact that they reaired old episodes of Patty Duke, Car 54 and The Munsters in the evenings. It was refreshing at the time to see the classics with their harmless and wholesome brand of comedy. I suggested that they add certain cartoon shorts in between episodes. A few weeks later I got a postcard from "The President of Nick at Night" thanking me for my input, but saying they were too busy to respond to individual correspondence. And now for the good part - about a month later THEY DID EXACTLY as I requested - they inserted Looney Tunes shorts in between episodes! That was pretty cool.

As the internet is an evolving medium, probably moreso than TV, with episodes of your favorite television shows now available for viewing on demand right from the networks themselves, that is where I have noticed an ability to collaborate in the downfall via comment sections. Again for example "jizz in my pants" on youtube. Thats where this snowball reaches its climax and takes all the young impressionable minds with it. They get reinforcement by reading the favorable comments of others. They are convinced that it is normal and acceptable behavior. Now of course its up to society to correct that misconception as they develop into adults......unless of course (as I fear) society has come or will come to accept that behavior as "the norm".

Its terrible.
 
Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Felix, I disagree to a point with the claim of "too much" - how can there be "too much" of something when essentially the volume of "stuff" on the internet really has no limit. It's not as if you could say "the internet is three quarters full, and more than half of the stuff on there already is porn." One of the problems is the way in which sites get indexed. As porn is business, there's a huge incentive for them to get as many clicks as possible. It's a race between search engines only finding what's relevant to your search, and porn sites managing to get placed as highly as possible on various searches so they get more clicks & more fractions of a cent of advertising revenues.

However, Felix, I think you have the right idea, but overlooked the most obvious sources. It's not the internet - it's that other monitor in the house, the television. Look at the types of shows that are being marketed to pre-teens and younger teenagers. In fact, rather than go on for 4 or 5 paragraphs, allow me to summarize my point with one television show: My Sweet 16 on MTV. About 15 years ago, I hypothesized that MTV was partially responsible for the moral decay in society. I think they read my posts on the issue back then and said to themselves "Only partially?! We can do better than that." They and their competitors have been competing ever since for a larger piece of the pie, showing more and more outrageous behavior, oftentimes, of course, prefaced with "don't do this at home" i.e. Jackass.

You seem to think that kids get these ideas from the internet. I think you missed. These ideas were first thrust at them on television. The internet is the medium these kids are using to copycat what they've seen on the networks.
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You know DrPizza, we are in agreement here.

TV is a source of decay. While its origins via certain movies and TV shows is debatable, I point to the Simpsons (lack of respect for religion and anything morally based), Family Guy (whos writers will stop at literally nothing to get a cheap laugh), and as you mentioned certain shows on MTV (where your ONLY worth is sexually based).

Oddly enough, back in 1989 I wrote a letter to Nickelodeon telling them that I admired the fact that they reaired old episodes of Patty Duke, Car 54 and The Munsters in the evenings. It was refreshing at the time to see the classics with their harmless and wholesome brand of comedy. I suggested that they add certain cartoon shorts in between episodes. A few weeks later I got a postcard from "The President of Nick at Night" thanking me for my input, but saying they were too busy to respond to individual correspondence. And now for the good part - about a month later THEY DID EXACTLY as I requested - they inserted Looney Tunes shorts in between episodes! That was pretty cool.

As the internet is an evolving medium, probably moreso than TV, with episodes of your favorite television shows now available for viewing on demand right from the networks themselves, that is where I have noticed an ability to collaborate in the downfall via comment sections. Again for example "jizz in my pants" on youtube. Thats where this snowball reaches its climax and takes all the young impressionable minds with it. They get reinforcement by reading the favorable comments of others. They are convinced that it is normal and acceptable behavior. Now of course its up to society to correct that misconception as they develop into adults......unless of course (as I fear) society has come or will come to accept that behavior as "the norm".

Its terrible.
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I think you take things way too seriously. I was born in 1967 so I certainly remember times prior to the internet and MTV. I thought "jizz in my pants" was funny as hell. Then again, I think Howard Stern is funny as hell too.

I have a 6 year old son and I don't let him listen to Howard Stern or half the stuff that I find funny or interesting to watch. It's called parenting.
 
I JIZZ RIGHT IN MY PANTS EVERY TIME YOU'RE NEXT TO ME. AND WHEN WE'RE HOLDING HANDS, IT'S LIKE HAVING SEX TO ME. YOU CALL ME PREMATURE, I JUST CALL IT ECSTASY. I WEAR A RUBBER AT ALL TIMES AS A NECESSITY 'CAUSE I

JIZZ :music: IN :music: MY :music: PANTS

i jizz in my pants yes i jizz in my pants

i JIZZ in my PANTS

whaoaaaaaaaahooahaoooooooooo :music:
 
Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
Originally posted by: DrPizza
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You seem to think that kids get these ideas from the internet. I think you missed. These ideas were first thrust at them on television. The internet is the medium these kids are using to copycat what they've seen on the networks.
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TV is a source of decay. While its origins via certain movies and TV shows is debatable, I point to the Simpsons (lack of respect for religion and anything morally based), Family Guy (whos writers will stop at literally nothing to get a cheap laugh), and as you mentioned certain shows on MTV (where your ONLY worth is sexually based).
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The Voice of my dad:
TV?!? TV? It is radio that is the probem, that crazy Rock and/or Roll music kids are listening to these days! It is stripping away the moral facric of our nation!

(heard from somewhere far behind me)
Radio?!? Radio? It is these comic books they are printing these days! They are currupting...

(faintly heard from somewhere even farther away)
Comic books?!? Comic books? It is these pulp novels, nothing but trash...

(many more voices can be barely made out if the far distance, each calling out aginst the medium of their day, somewhere way far away a grunt about cave wall painting can be made out)


 
Felix...I get the feeling you're like those religous whackjobs that would show up on campus to "preach" on The Concourse. Calling the coeds whores for wearing pants/skirts above the knee/etc... and that sororities whorehouses and fraternities pimps-in-training.

Try as you might, you cannot roll the clock back to the idyllic times of the 1950s and those "lovely" social mores. Things aren't much different now than they were then. Betty Sue was still getting banged in the backseat of an Edsel. The only difference now is little Betty Sue has a digicam to go along with her saddle shoes.
 
No - I love this girls gone wild/porn star generation - wish I was 20 again. I sure as hell wouldn't be on the internet.
 
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