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Cycloneboy posted:

i also know a lot about the details of warfare in the early middle ages for someone who lives in the 21st century. it's called research. jesus.



same but instead of research i played a computer game called "lords of the realm." im p sure you werent born when this game came out but we apparently share a similar type of knowledge about medieval warfare because of it so thats cool

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Mike Nelson here.
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dm posted:

i'd appreciate it if you didn't talk that way about my incredibly loving and thoughtful kinda-sorta-girlfriend! she does not have a pricetag.

i didn't know you lived in toronto.

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Is it any coincidence that the most socialist and prosperous nations tend to have the most vile and debased pornography, while in backwards, theocratic and totalitarian countries pornography is always banned?

The only rational conclusions are that porn is either an objective good, a pressure release valve for socially harmful behaviors, or a sequestering heat sink for the dregs of humanity that would otherwise drag it down.

Active feminists would better spend their energies lobbying for less restrictive birth control legislation or making sure that abortion doesnt become illegal. Which is almost certainly what they would be doing if academic feminism hadnt belonged to the CIA since the cultural cold war.

And if the issue is the capitalist commodification of sex, the obvious solution is the de-commodification and free distribution of sex, either through real-life intercourse, or through the free online distribution of pornography (which itself exists as a main bulk of all internet traffic). If anything the pornography business is demonstrable proof that an entire industry can prosper even when 99% of its consumers receive and distribute its products for free. It is also proof that an industry can thrive while paying its female employees several times more than its male employees. Once you extract quasi-religious moralizing from the situation, pornography is actually quite the revolutionary act.
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I'm pretty sure that if pornography was banned I would be a better person.
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Empathy posted:

I'm pretty sure that if pornography was banned I would be a better person.



just start having good sex and you won't need it

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Ironicwarcriminal posted:

Empathy posted:

I'm pretty sure that if pornography was banned I would be a better person.

just start having good sex and you won't need it



Indeed this is what I tried http://www.summoningsuccubus.com/summoning-a-succubus

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Socialist countries don't have pornography, only based wicked empires do. Thank you based bog
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Goldgelbes Löwenäffchen
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tpaine posted:

oh based dog. oh long john. oh god piano.

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why I eyes ya
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How can you "do" insecurity?
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just kidding!

e: i'd also note that a certain idea i had worked

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Ironicwarcriminal posted:

Empathy posted:

I'm pretty sure that if pornography was banned I would be a better person.

just start having good sex and you won't need it

unfortunately the latter needs to be true before the former is possible

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Transient_Grace posted:

How can you "do" insecurity?


look at this autist

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EmanuelaOrlandi posted:

i dont watch porn n it really weirds me out when my dude friends will like all know who one pornstar chick is. like they'll be like 'oh yeah her man' and im like wot??


Every instance of friends invoking porn and porny stuff seems forced and born out of embarrassing ritual obligation. I’m here at a bachelor party trying to teach the Chinese card game sensation “Tichu” to my friends and they’re worried about getting the porn on.

But like the article says this coincides with other issues of leftism and how corporate social control is born out of ritual obligation to do and have things that are both boring and shitty. People interpret branches of leftism as pseudo religious guilt but really it’s language to grant you freedom from these things that are not useful or entertaining.

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all these people saying they don't like porn is making me wonder if they've ever seen the really hot kind
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Even if we are to accept the premise that pornography is a Bad Thing, the question of what to do about it remains. As with other vices, I think it would be naive and even dangerous to criminalize consumption or production. Criminalizing prostitution, on either the demand or supply side, forces prostitution businesses to operate in secrecy, unregulated, resulting in working conditions for prostitutes that are more exploitative and more dangerous than they have to be. Similarly, criminalizing drug possession and drug use forces production and distribution underground and causes people to turn to increasingly exotic substances, resulting in tainted supplies (e.g. krocodil, cocaine cut with levamisole) and increased use of drugs that it would be fairly idiotic to take even under good circumstances (e.g. bath salts, PCP). Criminalizing pornography would likely only lead to an amplification of exploitation and the other evils of the industry, making things worse for vulnerable individuals who end up in adult films as victims of circumstance.

Strict restrictions on advertising for porn sites might reduce demand if people often visit them on an impulse upon seeing such ads. I have never taken the time to analyze my own habits and the sequence of events that tends to lead to wanking to porn, but it makes sense that decreasing porn's visibility could diminish consumption somewhat.

The best response - although there is no reason why the two can't be done in tandem - is to reduce demand by educating people about the multifarious effects of their actions. Teach people that consuming a product, even if it is free from their perspective, can generate revenue for its producers and distributors, providing them with an incentive to create more, thus perpetuating any unfortunate things associated with the industry in question. Also, embrace a moral system that discourages socially harmful behaviour. Convert to Islam.
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stopped reading at 'Convert to Islam.'
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hate the porn, love the pornographer. let he who is without a naked picture on the internet somewhere cast the first stone
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is a man not entitled to the precum on his glans?
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family values and pro-woman acculturation ftw.
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Poronto
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free ice cream and back rubs for everyone except convicted embezzlers and unlicensed hot dog cart people
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Skylark posted:

all these people saying they don't like porn is making me wonder if they've ever seen the really hot kind



That's because non-patriarchal porn sucks, unless seeing the characters of Bob's Burgers in diapers gets you hard.

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more like pornography is an issue for my left-HAND gahahahahahhhehahhahhohehhohahheh just a lil' masturbation joke to lighten the mood up in here, folks
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MadMedico posted:

Skylark posted:

all these people saying they don't like porn is making me wonder if they've ever seen the really hot kind

That's because non-patriarchal porn sucks, unless seeing the characters of Bob's Burgers in diapers gets you hard.


it does *braces for kink shaming*

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aerdil posted:

more like pornography is an issue for my left-HAND gahahahahahhhehahhahhohehhohahheh just a lil' masturbation joke to lighten the mood up in here, folks



the moods pretty good.... i'm feelin HORNY!!!!...

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GoldenLionTamarin posted:


OH MY GOD

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I used to show my butthole and genitals on cam for money and I would buy stuff like blu ray discs and clothes with the money. It was cool. but I figured out better ways to make money

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Mike Nelson here.
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I assumed having an orgasm through force of will was something everybody did.
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why cant these people just stop thinkshaming us argh