While that is often true… and certainly there’s way way to much degradation as well as unrealistic stuff… go to pornhub and you’ll find an enormous proportion of incest fantasies, along with racist stuff and bbw body types. Professionals make porn for people who actually pay for it, and there’s so much that’s free that that means going after some surprising demographics. When i was a teen the porn that was easily accessible was stuff i could imagine misconstruing as realistic. The stuff that shows up today is much weirder and more varied.
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What’s the search term for realistic porn where the people appear love one another and include the romance? Where both partners are responding to the emotions of the other and taking things at a realistic pace.
Even the term “romance” tends to be associated with bodice rippers and overuse of the word “ravish”.
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That we cannot imagine such censorship is part of our larger inability to imagine any escape from the online world’s immersive power, even as we harbor growing doubts about its influence upon our psyches.
I just don’t get Douthat. It’s not that it’s a monumentally stupid and condescending and ineffective idea. It’s manifestly impossible to achieve without passing a Constitutional amendment.
He doesn’t know that? He’s on deadline and just tossing a shit-idea over the transom to get paid? He’s being a trolley? He’s truly this stupid?
Which would fall into the category: Troll
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The word you’re looking for is pandering. He has an audience and he knows how to get them riled up and buying newspapers.
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Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter youtube channel.
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Tinglers?
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This worked brilliantly in our campaign to stamp out the pernicious influence of the Mexican loco weed; why so skeptical?
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Sex is subversive. Which is why authoritarian regimes fear it.
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Imagine how much time it would take to masturbate if this idea went mainstream. It could take 45 minutes just to get to the part where the couple finishes telling each other how their day went while preparing dinner.
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I don’t get the obsession with people’s desire to stop others from enjoying themselves. It’s like there’s a primal urge to ensure no one else is having a good time. I’d be fine with regulating the labor situation in porn since there’s loads of issues there but to ban the actual production and/or consumption is ridiculous. Ross Douthat clearly has no idea what he’s talking about in regards to the social problems related with porn (there are some but not on the dimension he’s talking about). I just wish conservatives would just admit they don’t get any happy sexy times like the rest of the hapless socially awkward nerds (me included).
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This is why I prefer my porn drawn. I’m not gonna tell which artists but if you followed me on twitter you’d see who I’m following which is a clue, lol.
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That matches my recollection fairly well. It’s been 10 years since that art history class. But that was about to gist of it.
The issue is people more connect it to modern tentacle rape porn. There might be some base connection there. But iirc it was more of a general trope in Japanese erotic literature at the time about fisherman’s wives and pearl diverse being sexually available/agressive. With a more minor and less persistent trope for octopus and squid as. Well. Horny characters.
Sort of like the western trope for farmers daughters and milk maids. And European literature using goats and satyrs as stock sexually aggressive characters and symbols of male sexuality.
So it’s less a lady getting tentacle raped then a woman enjoying consensual oral with a visual metaphors for male sexual aggression.
But with fewer judgements attached than you’d expect. The Japanese upper class at the time was pretty sex positive in a lotta ways.
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I’m certainly not anti-porn or masturbation. I do look at it a little like showering, that is to say not a normal topic of public discussion. At the same time, that’s just a personal custom and not a moral position or view I care if others share.
That said, since this thread has gone there, I will say that I prefer what most people would call erotic art (not to be snobby, what qualifies as art is purely a matter of opinion) and I prefer still photographs. I don’t normally care for watching video recordings and most of what I’ve seen has seemed to me to be incredibly crass, mostly uncomfortable looking, and often farcically dumb.
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All of the above. He’s the NYT op-ed page’s token conservative religious fundie, a true believer who gets paid by them to try and sell his ignorant garbage to the paper’s Coastal Elite liberal readers and also gets to feel like a Catholic martyr when they respond with mockery. Without this gig he’d have to wear a cilice (although I strongly suspect he wears one anyhow).
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Had to look that up. I will never understand religious folks.
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Given Ross’s obvious sex and body horror I’ll bet that his is a particularly nasty one that wraps around something other than his thigh.
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Andrea Dworkin and Catherine MacKinnon drafted an ordinance to this very effect, and they convinced social conservatives in Indianapolis to adopt it. Obviously the two groups had different reasons for wanting to ban porn, but they both agreed it had to go.
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit found the ordinance unconstitutional in American Booksellers Ass’n v. Hudnut, which you can read here: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10304718398250731275
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Let’s just shun Ross Douthat instead. Perhaps if enough people do that, he’ll vanish from the NYTimes and all media. Oh, no, that can’t be right. People like Douthat never go away.
For instance, Jimmy Swaggart still shows up on my TV screen from time to time.
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To sum up, banning porn is like banning pot.
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