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Sorry, I didn't meant to be so confusing.
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But, unfortunately, I'm almost not surprised. Kyriarchs don't necessarily feel they have to rely on logic to buttress their viewpoints. That's for commoners.
*sigh*
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After watching some Japanese nostril porn on a whim, I just can't quite look at anyone's nose the same.
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Actually, maybe you should still be afraid.
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still afraid.
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Hence the existence of Rule 34.
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Also, completely unrelated - how come you get to have two different avatar pictures? That's downright favoritism!
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I'd rather spend time examining and talking about particular pieces of pornography and the effects they may or may not have on people than these kinds of global generalizations, if only because, from my generally... skeptical attitude towards porn, I get tired of having the same damn fight every time about how there's this artist or that artist WHO TOTALLY MAKES PROGRESSIVE FEMINIST PORN OMG DON'T LUMP IT ALL TOGETHER.
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Put it on a T-shirt, ladygirl.
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Also, 20 guys? Control group or no, that's a pretty small sampling.
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Also, you don't have to have a "pathological" sexuality (again, how is pathology defined in this study?) to have had porn shape and inform your views on sex.
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"changed") were what led me to believe this study was entirely put together to make the guy feel better about his use of porn. I honestly feel like mainstream porn (at least in the US) is very harmful and degrading to women and probably relationships in general. I'd rather that there be less studies that are so defensive and rationalizing treating women like shit, and just people trying to make better fucking porn.
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. I'd rather that there be less studies that are so defensive and rationalizing treating women like shit, and just people trying to make better fucking porn.
me too. i saw an interview with lydia lunch and this is along the lines of what she said. she said less porn does not need to be made, but MORE porn, and more by women. she went on to say that most porn producers are middle-aged men, so that what you have is a saturation of their sexual fantasies, when there is a whole diverse group of people that should be tapped into. obviously i'm paraphrasing here, but i think she's onto something there.
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The only way I can think of to get a control group would be to randomize young boys and actively monitor their ability to access porn for years (not so practical). Grown men who watch and don’t watch porn would be expected to be different in lots of ways that cannot just be chalked up to porn.
Lots of qualitative research interviews small numbers. You can go much more in depth with long interviews and find out things you might not know to include on a survey. Sometimes people use this info to do a bigger quantitative study, but sometimes they don't.
I couldn't find the actual paper, but I think this is actually prelim research for his dissertation, so I would guess there will be a bigger study.
I don't think this is supposed to be the study that explains porn, its just another piece in the literature to build off of.
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Why are your remarks so frequently apologist for what observation and common sense can determine are (often veiled) misogynist attitudes and behavior, tangentially attacking anyone who dares criticize them -- irrespective of the degree of warpage in the research methodology?
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i've been thinking about this one a lot lately. they're basically as unregulated as it gets... and they have a very powerful lobbyiest in washington who won a case based on freedom of speech that allows pornographers to make and distribute images of child pornography (not actual photos, but drawings, cartoons, reenactments, etc.).
i don't know the exact details, but i saw it in the doc 'the price of pleasure.'
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Fuck off.
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Which, I dare say, is why so many men like it.
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Which, I dare say, is why so many women like them.
(I don't actually believe this statement or your's... they just strike me as funny)
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"Erotica is what I like. Porn is what those other people like."
Unless you provide an objective definition of both porn and erotica that shows they are clearly separate and cannot overlap, that is more or less what you said and it's a bit of a cliche.
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Erotica is written. Porn moves. Draw your own fucking Venn diagram.
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Regardless, you should train your hackles to rise a little less quickly if you are going to say insulting, generalized things that are easily misinterpreted and that you did not expand on very much.
How is written pornography more imaginative than filmed pornography?
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But hey, why don't we look around for better ones together? Wikipedia defines erotica as material intended to be erotically/sexually arousing, and porn as the DEPICTION OF ACTS in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense emotional reaction.
If it's written, it ain't porn. And if it moves, it ain't erotica. Porn, then, can be situationally defined as moving erotica, OR, erotic material in which the imagining is already done for you.
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Erotica is just too much of an investment at times.
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To answer your question, I never said that filmed pornography is more "imaginative" than written erotica. I said, and still maintain, that erotica requires some use of the imagination (which is different than being "imaginative"). Filmed pornography requires no imagination whatsoever. It's already laid out there for you on the screen; you can just turn off your brain. No thanks.
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My 1-20 findings are that it isn't always how he feels (about porn and his perceptions about my body may or not be measuring up) that need to necessarily be the main thrust (ah, hah) of the issue.
ETA: Silly skewed findings.
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