Is internet porn ruining our next generation? Is censorship the answer?

Your list of how many view porn is interesting but it does not show how effective the controls are.

Your system from what I can see, is there to regulate, not censor. All you are doing is showing that many adults are ignoring or cancelling the controls.

Regards
DL

 

Tobacco companies add chemicals that CAUSE addiction to their products and they are universally effective. Very few can smoke without being addicts.

Porn is not addictive in and of itself. The vast majority of people who watch porn are not, never have been, and never will be addicted to it. People who become addicted to porn usually have a brain chemistry that makes them more likely to become addicted. The same goes for gambling addiction.

So, comparing tobacco, or alcohol addiction, to porn, or gambling addiction is a false comparison.

 

Good sense, expressed above. That is the close enough to reality.

 

Not so.

The analogy is near perfect. Addiction is addiction regardless of the stimulus. They all effect the same part of the brain thanks to dopamine creation.

In the case of internet porn, the variety and constant release of dopamine are having the damaging effects spoken of in the links.

There are various depths of addiction from various products but in this issue, what is being effected, erectile dysfunction as well as the poor social skills it produces should not be ignored.

Regards
DL

 

No the analogy is not perfect. You are comparing something that is addictive in and of itself, regardless of who uses it (tobacco), with something that no adddictive qualities on it's own. If someone gets addicted to porn, and because of their own brain chemistry, not the porn itself.

 

Why should society have to accommodate for your inability to control your kids?

As for your bizarre analogies; yes, there is a porn arcade in my neighborhood, several in fact within a 5 mile radius. No problems there.

As to why Hustler magazine isn't sold in HS, that one is truly priceless.

 

And that is why you are being purposely naive with this topic.

If "addiction" was his problem, it wouldn't matter whether it was gambling, drugs, or alcohol...he would find something to be addicted to, the fact that he chose porn is more than likely the lesser of all the above except for your niece's ego and inability to cope with it. Based just on this superficial knowledge, the marriage was doomed to fail anyway, regardless of whether or not porn was in the picture.

 

No. Third World immigration is.

 

This would be the most disobeyed law in the history of the U.S. It is not possible to censor porn even if they wanted to, they can't stop people operating black markets with guns and drugs, what hope do they have of stopping image transfer?

None.

 

I should've said why isn't there a porn arcade in my neighborhood. I choose to live away from the perverts. You choose to live with them. To each his own. The fact is zoning laws exist so we know we're choosing to live near or away from them.

It's unlikely a pervert is going to care what is good for children anyway. They'll use poor excuses like censorship so they don't lose their access to smut; but they're not arguing because they value anything other than depravity. They're not fooling anyone with the Thomas Paine BS. I just hope the perverts don't outnumber us.

 

Not to mention adding alcohol to booze.

 

Hate to shatter your little Prudish Utopian dream, but they do.

 

Then why aren't the anonymous gay sex hangouts, err, porn arcades, everywhere instead of only in either unincorporated areas or strictly zoned areas of cities? I hate to shatter your pervert dream, but these places are still highly regulated, and most normal people don't want to live anywhere near them.

 

Selling alcohol online to a minor will get you a stiff financial penalty and/or jail time. The porn producers and website owners are left alone. That doesn't make any sense.

 

If by "porn arcade" you are referring to those places with video booths, those are almost extinct thanks to the Internet.

They have been replaced with sex boutiques, or sex shops, that cater to couples wanting to spice up their sex lives. They sell all sorts of adult toys. Go check it out, unless you think your poor prude of a heart won't be up for it.

These types of establishments, along with gentlemen's clubs, are regulated like any business.

Your comparison of this to the Internet is silly at best and shows your inability to understand technology, let alone the modern world. What sort of backwater town do you live in?

 

Well, to buy liquor or join a porn site, you need a credit card, so what would your kid be doing with a credit card?

 

Addiction 101.

Follow the links I put in the O.P., and think again.

Regards
DL

 

Not so.

They can keep whatever they like out of the net.

That is why child porn is quite hard to find.

Regards
DL

 

And not to mention the tobacco and alcohol lobbies greasing political palms to insure that none of the healthier psychotropic drugs get a toe hold into our society. They have failed as pot is coming on strong.

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DL

 

Sure it does.

Do you think that none of that vast amount of money finds it's way into politicians hands?

The governments of the world are the greatest drug pushers in the world. They also have a large hand in porn.

Regards
DL

 

That's more the job of a parent than the government.

 

Call it what you will, but I'm not restricting my own freedoms just because some people screw things up for themselves.

That's like arguing that the surveillance state's violation of our privacy is worth the supposed security. It really isn't.

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That depends on how your ethics work. I consider it immoral to restrict the rights of the majority for the sake of the minority.

 

porn is sim0ply degrading

degradation isnt good for anyone

 

Assumes facts not in evidence. You are not the arbiter of what women see as degrading.

 

No of course not...but I bet a lot of them are.....and merely accept it....hence the high rates
of domestic violence and divorce within the world...but what would I know.....