Oh, and they’re also trying to get straight dudes to look at gay porn too.
Watch the video, Pornhub/Mindgeek Senior Writer says it - in his own words.
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Pornography in all forms is evil. (Many disagree, but I’m not changing my mind.) Men, women, kids, whoever - it corrupts and warps all sorts of understandings of sex, intimacy, gender/gender roles, etc.
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I’ve personally had a hard time stopping it.
Not an easy thing to do if you were exposed to it at 12.
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I’ve seen studies that claim pornography has a positive effect on people or society. Whether that’s true or not, I ask what effect it has on the performers. It’s like legalized prostitution; maybe it has some value to the men who take advantage of it but I doubt it helps the women to become well adjusted members of society. It’s all exploitation of broken people.
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I wonder who funded those studies.
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Ditto. On both accounts.
I think one of my high school buddies found it around 4th/5th grade.
People say “my dad had Playboys in his closet” and “we had sex tapes stashed in the woods” but it’s an ENTIRELY different thing to not even hit a double-digit age and be able to pull a device out of your pocket and have a (real or fictional, your choice) gang rape video playing in mere seconds.
Another reason why no one, but especially children, needs smart phones, too.
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I’ve seen people try to use the term “sex work” instead of prostitute. It’s “nicer.”
Someone pointed out that aside from many of the OnlyFans girls who make millions from posting photos of themselves from the relative privacy and safety of their homes, there’s nothing nice about sex work. Most real prostitutes are coming from unimaginably broken backgrounds and hate their situations. If you really care about women (or people in general), there’s nothing to glamorize or make appealing about who sex workers are and why they do what they do.
EDIT: You’re talking about porn, not prostitution, but I think they’re about the same.
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Remember when Congress went after tobacco companies for targeting children? Not saying they weren’t trying to “hookem young” but it seemed way looser than what the porn industry currently does.
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Clearly children shouldn’t be targeted.
Otherwise, porn is a product. It’s marketed and sold just like any other product.
Porn companies, from producers to platforms, want deep market penetration with a girth of product consumption. It’s not that crazy to think they would toss a line from a genre a viewer doesn’t typically watch to see if they can get a bite.
I watch porn. I like porn. There are some genres I am not interested in. I think they’re gross and a turn off. Scat. Violence. Extreme bdsm. Gay, including trans et cetera.
I see ads for all of them, and I’ve noticed algorithms have shifted to push content I don’t watch more so than recommend content I historically have watched. I just don’t watch the advertised videos, it’s pretty simple.
You’re not a victim if you’re watching dudes rail each other, you’re gay and clicked it on purpose, or stayed on the page. Why make porn the bad guy?
Beyond porn, I like sex. A lot. And I’ve had a lot of it. Vanilla sex, kinky sex, group sex. This is why I like porn. It satiates a sexual appetite when I don’t have a woman to fuck, my wife these days. Not the other way around.
Just like porn I don’t get off on hurting my partners, shitting on them, humiliating them or whatever else, but I love fucking them. Porn style.
Sex is a natural thing and porn is a release. Why demonize it?
Sometimes, oftentimes, when posting, less is more.
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There is a weirdly prudish bend around here currently, that’s for sure.
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How do you feel about half naked or even clothed women showing their ass and tits all over social media such as TikTok or Instagram. Do you think that delivers the same negative effects of porn or nah? Perhaps there may even be a grey area? Hell, we could even go down the rabbit hole of questioning modesty…
As a man with no control freak tendencies, it’s hard to wrap my head around those questions, it seems very chaotic.
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You did this on purpose. I refuse to accept another answer.
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Personally, I don’t like it. People argue whether marijuana is truly a gateway drug, but I’d say the women you described are to porn what weed (maybe) is to hard drugs. It sure gets your foot in the door, for both men and women. Some women get enough attention from it that it seems like the natural next step is porn, where they can make more money. Some men like it enough that they turn to porn, to give them what the previous material only hinted at.
I don’t know the science behind it but I believe it gives you the same dopamine (or oxytocin? Or both?) rush, which I think is unnatural and unhealthy. I’ve seen a YouTube Short several times that says the average twelve year-old with an iPhone can see more beautiful naked women in an hour than the richest king who ever lived could’ve dreamed of seeing. However one views porn, that can’t seem like a good thing.
I think modesty is a good thing. I think allowing anyone else’s choice of dress to affect your own decisions is dumb, and only you are at fault for that, but I still think it’s overall a good thing for both men and women to dress somewhat modestly. I’m not saying all women should wear burqinis to the beach, or that one can’t wear “less” clothing at the gym, while doing outdoor work in the summer, etc., but I there should be limits. I saw a man posting a video of himself doing an ice plunge the other day. He was wearing tight underwear and you couldn’t miss the outline of his junk. Since he was filming himself and posting it online, one can assume this wasn’t unintentional. I view that the same way as the women you mentioned. It’s childish, vain, attention-seeking, and unattractive to most mature adults.
This is a mistake that many in our generation make, in my opinion. One doesn’t have to be a control freak to have expectations about how either gender conducts oneself, or to have opinions regarding modesty and pornography. To say certain things are wrong or shouldn’t be done doesn’t make someone an overbearing control freak. Sometimes it can, sure. But sometimes it just means that a person has standards.
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I appreciate your well written thoughts Jshaving, thank you for sharing.
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You bet. How’s school going? Do you graduate this year?
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You know whats funny?
I just ran into this last week while scrolling through related content suggestions. I couldn’t believe it. Thought it was freakin hilarious at the time. Still do, actually. 
There must be some overlap in the venn diagrams.
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It’s great man, I just took my last final tonight. Nah, I graduate in May 2024. I’m excited, but pretty stressed caused I’ll be apartment hunting during the semester.
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We got dial-up (AOL) in like 96’ or something like. I was around 10 or 11 at the time. The things I saw before even being a teenager through Napster, Kazaa, and Bearshare…
I have two young boys and it terrifies me.
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I don’t think most people really care if adults consume porn assuming there isn’t coercion involved for the actors. It’s a voluntary job they’re being paid for or are amateurs uploading it themselves for whatever reason. It’s a vice like most other vices. That said, it clearly has had an impact on the development of young minds.
People have always had some kinks, but what we’re witnessing now is something else entirely. It seems pretty reasonable to me to consider what has changed over the past 30ish years that could have caused said change and the most obvious thing I can think of is the abundance of easily accessible porn and it isn’t your dad’s porn, there’s some crazy shit out there that kids are being exposed to.
That said, this falls squarely on parents to deal with imo.
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