This thread is less than a day old. It won’t show up for any query that isn’t extremely specific.
I actually came here to post this thread.
The site name alone makes it sound totally untrustworthy. And again, there are certainly studies claiming the opposite.
This statement is very likely true. Transferring that addictive issue from the psychology of the person to the object of that particular individual’s fixation, however, is an error. Persons who get caught up in gaming, porn, various genres of fiction, clubs, hobbies, and any number of other things can cause harm to their lives by cutting themselves off from human interaction or getting them to fail to meet their obligations at work or any number of other necessary actions of humans.
However, setting up porn, (or gaming, or other activities), as the culprit is simply demonstrating tunnel vision–focusing on the chosen object of the person’s fixation rather than addressing the issue with the person’s psychological issues.
I’m sorry. I know this is a debate forum, and arguments are expected to be highly structured and backed up by facts. I doubt I can find any full-fledged studies that you won’t immediately deny or refute. I can only say that porn has adversely affected my life. This has been my experience, and I do know that many others have gone through the same thing.
If I haven’t convinced you of anything, that’s fine. Just food for thought.
Addendum: pornography has never cut me off from human interaction or prevented me from fulfilling duties of any kind. I’ve wasted a ton of time, sure, but I was never consumed by it to such an extent. All I’m saying is that the decision to stop viewing pornography has led to all kinds of improvements in my life. Why don’t you try it for a few weeks, just to see what kind of difference it makes in your life, if any? If you are involved in such activities, that is.
What exactly is the danger? Masturbation is not only utterly harmless, it is the safest sexual outlet there is. I still can’t believe Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders was dismissed for encouraging it; a Surgeon General should encourage it.
[shrug] So does sex, but you can’t always get it.
Please be more specific.
Or perhaps that was just you, in that period of your life, masturbating or not. Many people go through such periods.
I am…and I have. I’ve taken vacations, for instance, where I was cut off from the Internet pretty much entirely. I missed email and SDMB debates much more than I missed the porn!
(Because of the lack of privacy on vacation, I also had to give up jerking off for the same time. Didn’t seem to make any difference either way in my life. It didn’t even result in a particularly good orgasm upon my return and renewal of privacy.)
Who can tell which of our experiences is the most conventional? As noted, when the U.S. Surgeon General says, “Go ahead,” I can feel pretty sure there aren’t any known medical reasons not to.
I hereby renounce, denounce, and condemn the OP for a misleading title and for refusing to throw himself upon our mercy. He should slog dejectedly to the nearest river, and there perform the Albanian Ritual of Self-Abasement, accompanied by a chorus of bitter virgins, intoning dirges of woe and humiliation. Oh, and vitriol. Lots of vitriol.
For much the same reason I’m not interested in whacking my hand with a hammer just to see what happens.
If the existing laws were vigorously prosecuted in the way the moral conservatives would favor, it would be VERY MUCH like a ban, in terms of its effect on adult content. Seems to me to be one of the differences that makes no difference. Though I will admit there’s a technical difference.
How about admitting the title of this thread is blatantly misleading, and utterly wrong?
C’mon, guys! Our credibility is on the line here, if more of us don’t start in renouncing, denouncing, and deploring the OP, everybody’s gonna think we are just another of those liberal message boards that only pick on conservatives! And that’s a paddling! Or something. Something bad.
Or, we can stop renouncing and denouncing. It’s not actually normal behavior, but generally regarded as jerkitude on most discussion boards.
I suppose we could take him down to the quarry and…naah, too much work. But the thread seems to have evolved into something more constructive than the flawed OP would have normally instigated, so at least something positive came of it.
Those other discussion boards sound like nice places where you would perhaps enjoy posting more than you do here.
Clearly insincere. Not one appearance of “Balderdash, sir” or “Tommyrot,” in the whole paragraph.
Nevertheless, it has been recorded in the Grand Omnibus Accounting Tome of Partisan Opprobrium and Outrage Posted at the SDMB.
Such things, as you know, are crucial. One cannot simply wander into the SDMB, leisurely peruse threads, and post at will. No, each post must be counted and the implications tallied for all to mark and remember, so that when the SDMB passes, in the fullness of time, into the mists of oblivion, we can say with certainty and without doubt, equivocation, or contradiction, that liberals were mean to Bricker.
No, it hasn’t – because sarcastic comments like this simply reinforce my thesis: it’s OK to post errors if your errors are liberal-friendly; it gains no social condemnation.
OK, maybe the GOP doesn’t actually say they want to ban all porn, like the thread claimed, but you all just know that’s what they want, and anyway who cares? It’s the Republicans! Fuck 'em even if these claims were all wrong.
Based on the quotes in this article, it seems the OP may not be that far off.
Notice the quotes separate pornography from obscenity yet the desire to eliminate both is stated.
Or equate pornography with obscenity.
You’re saying two separate things. The claims have been refuted. The conclusion of this thread is that the OP was incorrect. I think that’s a fine conclusion.
You appear to think that either the claimant must knuckle under, or that the tribe must demonstratively vote him off the island (with a recording of the voice vote) in order for there to be a satisfactory resolution.
That’s just weird, and it’s not going to happen.
“I didn’t get a ‘Harrumph!’ from that guy!”