Technology

1. I’m gonna stop you right there because you’re flirting dangerously close to Victorian prudishness with a modern spin. There is absolutely nothing new about non-reproductive sexual behavior and the practice is not limited to humans. We’ve found sexually explicit images in cave paintings, Mesopotamia, a lot in Greece & Rome (including homoerotica), and the Kama Sutra is about 2000yrs old. Humans, including adolescents, have been jerkin’ it for centuries before the invisible hand came along.

My response: OK

2. What has occurred is that the accessibility, volume, and content of pornography has expanded and changed. Where people might have previously spanked it and finished in a few minutes then gone on with their day, now they can delay gratification and spend hours gooning to a never ending supply of whatever form of visual stimulus they want, including content that was never even intended or attempted to be pornographic. The pornography itself is not addictive, the physiological and mental stimulation is. For some, there’s a need to explore and indulge riskier sexual behaviors and fetishes to achieve the rush they got previously. I was pretty excited when I saw my first nudie mag at 8, by the time I was 16 it wasn’t as exciting because by then internet porn had become accessible. But, had nudie mags remained my only option for such content, I would have continued to masturbate to nudie mags.

My response:

Like I said, if they had better things to do, they wouldn't be jerking it all day. I'm living example of that. I have many hobbies and goals, personal goals, I would like to achieve, in which I do. And like I go to the restroom and take a huge dump, I deal with my bodily needs. In a capitalist society, you're going to have fetish, you're going to have perversion, because you have commodified the natural world. And like everything, people are always looking for the next thing, even though there's nothing new under the sun. At the root of this, I think this has to do with internal issues that are from external environmental factors. They will never fix the issues, because the issues create the solutions, and those solutions give big tech the power they need to become the fascist techno dictatorship that they've always planned to be. Our children are being preyed upon by psychological masters, & weapons contractors.

3. There’s also nothing inherently wrong with the idea of pornography, voyuerism, group play, sex toys, etc so long as all parties involved consent to the activity they’re engaging in. Humans like sex, they like masturbation, they like watching others perform it. Again, consent of all parties involved is the key factor. Truly understanding how to give and respect consent in what can be a high consequence interaction is why we set hard lines about age of consent and prohibit (or attempt to) minors from such activities, but also know that many are exploring and engaging in such behavior privately or with peers regardless. There’s a healthy, normal aspect to that because it’s human nature, and then there’s the dangerous side because porn of every sort lacks a lesson in consent, is often unrealistic/fantastical/deviant, and often treats the passive partner as an object for the pleasure of the active partner (typically women, but trans, “twink”, animals, and children are also depicted as such).

My response: True

4. This is the danger of porn to malleable minds who are responding to the biology of sex drive but do not yet have the confidence/skill/capacity to build healthy relationships where they can build intimacy and eventually engage in sex with a willing, consenting partner. Some end up forgoing the effort to find a partner entirely and meet their need with porn, which is a sad and unhealthy avenue. Other take the lessons of objectification and violate the boundaries of other. And the worst make their most deviant, dangerous, and hurtful fantasies reality. Some would behave like that without having been exposed to porn, but I would argue that porn is having a strong influence on the spread and normalization of truly deviant fetishes, like beast/child/gore/rape.

My response: People need to raise their children and not shelter them.

5. The commodification of sex is older than capitalism, it was being bartered and traded since… since forever. What capitalism has done is make a normal human behavior a profitable vice. Adults embracing their sexuality, recording it, selling it for other adults to view is not problematic so long as everyone who made it consented to the acts recorded and consents to the recording being put out for consumption by strangers. The internet has created a platform where it’s impossible to tell if those criteria were met before the material became permanently available and globally distributed, as well is a bastion of anonymity that can be accessed by anyone of any age. You can try and put up guardrails but humans are just going to figure out a workaround if they are inclined to do so. Pandora’s box has been opened, and even if there is no money to be made people are going to view, share, and trade porn. If you shut the internet down people would revert to whatever media forms were available to do the same. Even if you magically erased all porn, people, including adolescents, would still masturbate. What might diminish is the frequency and amount of time they spend doing so as well as the cultivation of deviant fetishes and objectifying partners.

My respone:

OMGAWD we are saying the same fucking thing. Instead of being punitive or restrictive, I mean, you gotta be restrictive to some degree. But I'm the type of person that believes additive solutions are the key to normal socialization of youths. You gotta give these little shits something better to do. This fucking country has no third spaces.... if you live in the imperial core. It is a very boring place that's hard to get around. I believe kids should have some structure, just like every organism on the planet, but it shouldn't be dictated by values or interests that other people think you should be into. What I'm saying is, America is a very boring place, with very few options, and everything cost a fortune. It's no wonder kids are on the internet constantly. It's like we built the world of the computer and the car, and we forgot to add in some space for human living. America also has a problem with being over-competitive. In that process of being over-competitive, we become jealous, envious, and vengeful. From the top to the bottom, these toxic behaviors are pervasive. So, when it comes to revenge porn, I mean, I'm just not interested in celebrities, or even the girl next door, or the guy next door, I really just keep to myself when it comes to all that. I prefer a good album to a good song. And a lot of times my favorite bands I don't even know the names of the musicians. When you watch movies, do you care about the story or the actor in it? I mean, even the way movies are made, they are made to be cut after cut, instead of joining film like they do in long scenes from the past. This has to do with attention span. So what I'm saying, it's a cultural issue. I don't think the accelerationism and the restrictive measures of the tech community are going to solve any of our depraved behaviors. Like I said, if these kids had something better to do, they wouldn't be doing what they're doing.

6. The people trying to create a “solution” aren’t doing so because they see that some forms of porn production and consumption is problematic, they see human sexuality as problematic. They’re not trying to steer how porn is produced and consumed into a healthy manner, they treat sexuality outside of their concept of divine purpose as deviant. Plus it’s a “rules for thee not me” attitude, especially when the people pushing it support one of the world’s most infamous and abusive deviants. The human need for sexual stimulation/release is like the human need to eat and drink. Capitalism didn’t invent it, it just exploits necessity.

My respone:

Yeah some people just get off by being in charge and eatin mcdonalds. Boy oh boy you are verbose. "divine purpose as deviant" Also I see it not as divine nor deviant