(December 3, 2012 at 2:37 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: After reading this whole thread, the responses to a good portion of what Vinny posted seem really irrational. I haven't read what he posted yet but some of looks like peered reviewed stuff. They aren't activist blog posts done by fundies.
Some things I haven't seen clearly defined: what exactly is addiction in the context of porn? At what point can you say that someone's porn consumption has gone from "healthy" or "normal" levels to "disruptive levels."
Just how severe are these negative effects? Negative compared to what? Coffee can give you negative effects but in comparison to meth, it's practically pristine water.
The negative effects of porn in our ethical and morality issues do not justify any kind of prohibition, or to be branded as a negative thing in itself. From the articles I've read from Vinny, they correlate porn with abused women, battered women, etc, but from the conclusion, even the authors do not correlate it as the single source of the harm those women endured.
Hence, it is hard to create a hard-line or a level system from those conclusions, but mabe if you are jacking off to porn enough after 18, to disrupt a relatioship, mabe you're doing it wrong.
[puts on old man hat]
Point is, there is such a thing as moderation, now, get out of my lawn!
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