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"Every moralist is a pornographer", wrote Brazilian play-writer Nelson Rodrigues.
It is correct to afirm that our "hypersexualised" society is not getting laid. At the same time, the world is becoming more conservative and less humane. In reality, the visible increasing of porn addiction, as we can see, and the need for communities of help, like NoFap, only proves that our sex-symbols/signs are not here to turn us on. They are deceiving us, and making us lonely.
Baudrillard would say that our sexuality is now being simulated - nothing but a mirage of desires that are currently substituting those of real life. We wish so badly the virtual peaks that we no longer can reach them with our bodies. The french philosopher once wrote: "we are all becoming transexuals" - not in the sense of sex-change, but by loosing our identities in this constant swapping of sexual desires/personas. (At any point here I am equalising "desire" to "perversion", please - desire, or as I prefer, desideratum, is an expression of sacred will, a very instinctive will-to-pleasure that ultimately unites people and make babies).
Perversions apart, it is right to say that pornography is not necessarily evil, (visual depictions of sex are celebrated in many cultures across the world, including in religious texts, like Kama Sutra). Fantasying is the main ingredient of sexual arousal. But there is something to be said about those who find evilness in every depictions of sex, or non-procreative pleasure they relate to unnatural deeds - I call them sexual iconoclasts.
Perhaps, our current mood of Porn Addiction*, allied with excessive masturbation, has awakened a different kind of man/woman in our times - a citizen obsessed with sexual politics. Baudrillard call this environment, "post-orgasmic". It is sad, deluded and paranoid. It misconstructs the speech of pleasure in order to judge what is "normal" and what is "natural" - without even thinking about the meaning of these words. Unfortunately, that's the kind of discourse I find most unsettling about the NoFap community. It brings all the elements, and has the tendency to, turn the whole thing into a cult.
Modern pornography has reinforced certain narratives over morals. It is not a coincidence that most porn websites have some "satanic" symbols, (like the famous "red tail and horns" used to scare children). This is deliberate, of course. But one thing is true: Porn nowadays feels like watching CNN while listening to an evangelical radio station. It doesn't instruct us on ars erotica only, but it comes charged with hard-core politics and all sorts of racial tensions implied - from sex with refugees to interracial/confederate motifs... this is mainstream porn, and it is turning us sick; porn is no longer used as a way to release tension, but to add more tension (with a theme of your preference, you just need to browse "labels" with the help of your subconscious).
Having noticed that the "main guilty" here is (not an ethnic/social/political group), but the billionaire internet corporations, the tech-tycoons of Silicon Valley, and other wealthy political pawns around; I came with the conclusion that contemporary porn is an effort to turn the world more moralist, conservative and extremist. It has nothing to do with sexual liberation, but sexual retention. It makes us addicted first to the devices that we are now constantly holding - our phones, our computers. It helped to turn the internet into a sensation, that is ultimately fake - but now holds the global market. As social media has nothing to do with social relations, porn has nothing to do with sex - but it sells (ideas included). It is not an expression of desire, but of power (extreme content, racial narratives, etc). It is not made to arouse us, but to anger/terrify/desensitise us - about ourselves and others.
Not only you will find porn addicts turning radically into religion ("NoFap is Jesus in disguise", as seen on youtube), but it also creates resented people who are always relapsing, and are unable to see the complexity of the game that is happening between tech-companies and governments - but they need to find someone to blame, in order to rescue the internet from criticism. These INTERNET ADDICTS are the people who say: "the internet is simply a tool". Bollocks! The internet is the main cause of addiction, not porn - and not ONLY addiction to porn! It is the internet, and YOU, who needs regulation, not only porn. (Read: "The Shallows - how the internet is changing our brains", by Nicholas Carr).
The NoFap moralist seems to have the need to demonise masturbation along with porn and actions/people who don't fit "their model" of "nature". It is always showing up here too, and I reveal: once I was one of them.
("Porn is evil because masturbation is unnatural!"), usually followed by some easy reductionism ("Oh, but the Theory of Evolution tell us that the reason we have sex is to make babies, therefore masturbation is bad..."), sometimes reaching straightforward ignorance ("Porn promotes homosexuality"), or hatred ("Oh, depravity is a weapon against Goyim!").
FFS.
Against the first and the second argument, I would like to quote the great French libertine, Marquis de Sade, who once stated: "Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced" - if masturbation was unnatural, it wouldn't be pleasant. ("evolution, you dumb!"). The problem with PMO is addiction, not masturbation. And those here who believe masturbation gives them "pleasure" enough to be addicted - followed by feelings of guilt, shame, etc - I just don't think you are using the right words, or your concept of pleasure is too broad for me (maybe a bit masochistic?).
What affect us here is not the "pleasure" of masturbation, but feelings of guilt, shame, etc (typical elements of the religious discourse). Therefore, excessive masturbation should not be seen as an act of pleasure, but the search for a pleasure that is lacking. It represents our aspirations, not our fulfilment. We spend hours masturbating in front of a screen not because we are getting pleasure, but the opposite - it is getting harder and harder to feel real pleasure in real life, so we turn to PMO, even knowing it is not going to satisfy us. Ask yourself: why!?
As for the last two "arguments"... It is just shallow and boring - and it makes me agree with Nelson Rodrigues, as I quoted before: moralists are actually the biggest pornographers. They see enemies in other people's pleasure. They ARE the enemies of pleasure and Love. They are selfish. In order to eliminate their addiction they call for the elimination of political ideas (kill the communist!), ethnic groups (kill the Jew!) or even Love - "dare not to speak its name". Just pathetic harmed people, but even so, extremely dangerous when they get organised. Truly shameful that we always find these types here...
{People like this, these castrati, are always in need to find "someone" to blame, but themselves. All I can say is: Grow up! You are addicted because you are weak, not because there is some ethnic minority plotting against your "race"}.
*It is THE INTERNET, you fools!
Start hating porn, end up calling for a Holy Crusade!
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