Because it makes you a better person. You’re too weak to stop doing it yourself, but if a higher power intervenes you can have a better afterlife.
It’s delayed gratification brought to its ultimate conclusion. Deny yourself all pleasures in life so you may have all pleasures in the afterlife. In fact pleasure in life is foolish, life is short and the afterlife is forever. The more people you can save today the more they’ll thank you when they are dead.
if you believe in the immortal afterlife then it totally fucks up all of your life choice tradeoffs. Sure having some teenage sex with your girlfriend might be fun, but balance that against and afterlife with an infinity factor. Even if it makes only the very slightest change in your afterlife situation, you have to multiply that change by infinity. These people are trying their best to help, and everybody here is mocking them!
There was a subset of sex-negative second-wave feminists who wanted to ban porn for ideological reasons related to combating sexism. Fortunately, it was a short-lived and embarrassing phenomenon that most feminists at the time rejected as impractical and silly (Margaret Atwood satirised it in The Handmaid’s Tale) and that third-wave feminists have outgrown.
I’m not anti-porn — I encourage realistic porn, in fact, but what gets lost in these conversations that fixate on religious standpoints is that much of today’s porn is pretty hardcore and tends to reinforce modern standards of beauty and masculinity. It has the ability to set unrealistic expectations for sex — both in performance and in attraction/physical appearance (what one seems as Hot or not hot) — and can be non-conducive to healthy sexual relationships by making one, or both, partner(s) never feel adequate enough and perpetually insecure
You don’t have to go far to find a self proclaimed feminist decrying porn and especially the porn industry today. “It’s degrading to women!” “It encourages men to only look at women as a warm ■■■■■ piece of meat that they can stick their penis into!” etc…
Honestly, they’re right in a majority of cases in mainstream porn, although they tend to gloss over how degrading it is for the man as well. He’s not typically shown with any more thoughtfulness or agency than the woman, just “Here’s the pizza ma’am. Oh you have a vagina? I have a wang. Lets put them together.” Of course there is an entire galaxy of porn out there and you can find examples and counterexamples of everything, but the debates tend to center around the most stereotypical Brazzars type material.
WTF? A synonym for damp is censored but penis is not?
Most porn looks incredibly boring, mechanical and uncomfortable, about as much fun as mopping a floor. Preferences vary, but I suspect most of what couples (or more) enjoy doing in bed wouldn’t be much to look at. After all, with the exception of consensual voyeurism, sexual partners are attending to each other, not some perv behind a camera.
