GOP working to declare porn a health crisis (AKA bothsidesthesame)

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MooseNSquirrel

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It's ironic and sad that once upon a time liberals and Democrats used to be the ones at the forefront against pornography for all the right reasons, predominately the degradation, exploitation and objectification of women and now having pretty much ceded that position to conservatives and republicans who feel porn is a threat for other reasons, instead of looking for some common ground on the issue, the current tribal mentality “ if the other side is against something we have to be for it” has taking hold in many liberal circles.

"As the pornography industry explores the darkest reaches of the human psyche in search of profits, liberals may want to rethink the assumption that only archconservatives would try to stop children from going there, too."


https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/...ral-parents-you-can-freak-out-about-porn.html

It’s O.K., Liberal Parents, You Can Freak Out About Porn
Oh please. Americans are so adorable with their puritanical concerns hiding behing fake social issues, your whataboutism notwithstanding.
 

pauldun170

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I'm not arguing that porn was imposible to get in th 80s. But compare it to now.

As a 13 year old could you walk into a sex shop and buy a porn mag without being challenged? Watching a porn VHS on the family video is as easy as hitting pornhub on the laptop?

I'm not suggesting that porn should be banned but why is internet porn treated differently to porn in any other medium?

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#1 Rule of 13 years olds. Everything and anything is porn.

Republicans are making a big deal because threir crazy Christian wives are bitching about their congressman husbands porn collections
This legislation is the equivalent of a guy putting his project car that his wife hates for sale. Then asking an obscene amount of money for it that no one will pay.
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BonzaiDuck

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"Masturbation, accompanied by Fantasization, ending with ejaculation . . . " [Nurse, speaking to Gordo Cooper, in "The Right Stuff"]

Porn -- either a mild vice or a "sex aid" -- has always been treated by alarmists as an epidemic.

Hypothesis: The Traitor-in-Chief probably has -- or had at one time -- a large collection of stroke books. Other indications, such as cavorting with Stormy, Karen and probably others, suggests that he's a sex-addict.

Most narcissists or particularly the extreme of narcissistically-disordered are inclined in some way to have an addiction problem. Since Trump constantly says he doesn't smoke or drink, my inference seems to fit the facts.

Of course, an affinity to being in the spotlight of public attention is an addiction for some, and an addiction of Trump's.

ADDENDUM: I have an interesting idea, however. Since the Evangelicals and Franklin Graham tend to support the [so-called] president, it would be illuminating to hear what Trump says about this "porn issue" in some news-interview situation when he is caught off guard and unprepared with a thoughtful answer. As we all know, he doesn't prepare much for anything. And it would be no less illuminating if his words bear a subtle meaning.

"Subtle meaning" -- As an example, most should remember when Trump was talking of his religious observance, and he mentions going to church to "have his little wine and little wafer". It took me three months before it sunk in, and I'd only guess it also took a Catholic like John Kasich just as long. Trump's father had been arrested around 1925 for participating in a KKK demonstration against Catholics. If a Catholic, an Episcopalian or an Anglican thought about it long enough, they might come to the conclusion that "little wine and little wafer" was a veiled insult in regard to the Sacrament of the Eucharist.

So again --- if there's a chance of it happening, listen very carefully to what Trump says about this porn epidemic.
 
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zinfamous

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Watching a porn VHS on the family video is as easy as hitting pornhub on the laptop?

I just had a thought, seeing as how I couldn't be a dad in the ~80s with a teenaged-son. How does the adult me think I would have handled a situation, if I were adult me back in 1985, with a son, where I get home early, walk into the room, only giving the kid enough time to switch from video source and turn off the VCR and TV (assuming it doesn't auto-eject, lol), so that he can walk away.

The tape is left in the machine, and of course the kid is sweating bullets all afternoon/evening, trying to find the perfect unguarded time to remove the tape from the VCR. Of course, that time never happens because I have claimed the L-Z Boy, a case of studly Hamm's beer by my side, as I sit down to watch Joe Montana and the Niners kick some other pointless team's ass on Monday Night.

Of course half-time comes or the game is generally over by then anyway, and I think I will check out this video I picked up at the video rental store. Perhaps it was the hilarious Money Pit with Tom Hanks or this Critters movie, giving Gene Simmons a turn as some weird space bounty hunter.

Turn on the VCR with my remote, switch to source, but it autoplays. I am then met with heavy pounding and moaning, some hardcore camera angles, and quite a lot of shock as Butt Rangers 24 is now playing on my TV. Stunned, I fumble to try and mute, fail of course, while running to violently remove this thing from the TV. Confused, and knowing myself, I wonder if I left this tape in the machine myself, or it got there some other way. No evidence of the empty, oversized case stashed away in the hidey hole where I usually keep my porn, and unsure if I even have a copy of Butt Rangers 24 (honestly--they were just phoning it in after Butt Rangers 14), I remove the tape and put it in my hidey hole.

Unable to definitively attribute the provenance of this type, the son and I simply never address or speak of this event for the rest of our lives--each one of us always assuming that the other one was responsible for the porn and so like any health father-son relationship, just maintain complete silence and emotional detachment forever.
 
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Victoria's Secret Catalog , any catalog with bathing suits, - delivered straight to the door.
#1 Rule of 13 years olds. Everything and anything is porn.

Republicans are making a big deal because threir crazy Christian wives are bitching about their congressman husbands porn collections
This legislation is the equivalent of a guy putting his project car that his wife hates for sale. Then asking an obscene amount of money for it that no one will pay.
1997 Pontiac Firebird Firehawk $68,000 OBO
Call Ralph

Sorry, I don't agree (you saying its crazy wives bitching about porn collections). For one thing I don't know that guys would have some way for their wives to find their porn collections (other than browsing history, and even then not sure, as many people don't share computing devices any more). Most likely is fundamentalist Christian preachers pushing that shit in church (which then their constituents contact their representatives about via coordinated campaigns through like Facebook groups and shit) who are wanting to enforce their sexual beliefs on others (so same shit behind their anti-abortion crap) are complaining because they caught their kids seeing porn or hearing that kids sharing/making porn on social media. Plus, that many women in porn have spoken out about it being their choice and them enjoying it probably is part of it too (can't have women enjoying their own sexuality now can we).