Easy Access to Porn - Good or Bad for Society

By matt nappo | Dec 20, 2024
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The video discusses the societal impact of easy access to adult content, the importance of sex education, the allure of taboo topics, the saturation of shock in media, and the misconceptions surrounding pornography.

[45:33-46:08]

Speaker questions whether easy access to adult content is beneficial or harmful to society.

Do you think, when it comes into children's rooms, just pumped in like on the internet like that, Do you think that's a good thing for society? or do you think that's bound to be a bad thing in the long run, where young men, young boys, can now have the most wild sex stuff pumping into their bedrooms literally, uh, 24, seven and you know, free. Um, it's gotta have some degrading effect on society, don't you think?

[47:29-47:40]

Speakers debate whether pornography warps people's minds and the differentiation between porn and sex.

It's not actually warping people's minds. Well, I agree with you on that, but I would take it a step further. You're kind of conflating porn and sex.

[47:41-48:01]

Speaker argues that taboo attitudes towards sex make pornography more attractive to children.

I think our attitudes towards sex and the way we keep sex a taboo subject that we can't talk to children about and educate them about makes porn such an attractive thing. It's like anything. If you can't have it. it becomes more attractive. I guess got removed.

[48:19-48:43]

Speaker discusses how making topics taboo increases their desirability and the challenge of shocking the younger generation.

The idea that you make it taboo and that keep it away from kids and say: or you can't talk about it, You can't talk about the subject with children and educate them on it makes it more desirable, And then you put in the fact that it just gets it wants to run away with how much, like mick jagger, you got to reach a point where you can't shock them anymore.

[48:43-49:13]

Speaker comments on the saturation of shock in porn and the need for open conversations about sex.

you're always trying to think of the next thing to shock them, and i think porn is has reached the saturation point on shock, but it's still trying to in every way it can and make it as shocking. so i think that can have a bad effect when we don't have those conversations with, with young people and and the fact that we as a human race treat sex like it's No other animal does. It just happens, right? Nobody thinks about it so much. Nobody tries to figure it out too much. I don't know.

[49:43-50:16]

Speaker clarifies misconceptions about pornography, explaining that unrealistic expectations stem from a lack of education.

the fact is, people aren't educated about what goes into shooting pornography. It's just not. And that's why people have sometimes unrealistic expectations on what they should have in the bedroom. But again, that's not porn's fault. If you watch a bar fight in an action movie, don't expect to get into a high quality bar fight when you're in a fight outside a bar or something of a sort. It's not the same thing, It's completely different. Right? Yeah, absolutely, And no one talks about that. And yet we do.