Should porn be outlawed

Maybe they should ban all teen stuff. That would make producers stop focusing on that genre, that is more or less making girls having reached majority but looking younger depicted as underage. That is one of the nastiest out there. It goes beyond the porn twisted....its against our values. Not to mention that a few odd videos might actually be illegal.

I remember reading an article where one famous porn star from the 1990 said in an interview (she made it to Oprah, Jay Leno, the late show) that she started to "perform" at 15, because she had fake ID and wanted to make it, be part of the "scene"...

 

It's not really a question of illegalization, it's really about the moral issue. If porn were abolished for reasons of the common good, it would really only effect those pursuing it as a profession. Not withstanding amateur and self submitted content. The question is relative, but I think it's only being asked here based upon the negative/undesirable toll it takes on those who over use it.

 

Yes I do.

It serves no purpose. It harms people. It funds God knows what else.

I've no love for censorship yet I love horror movies of which some get banned for content yet you can watch whatever genre of porn you want in a few clicks and kids can see this.

Hello????

 

Indeed. It will just turn addicts into criminals. It hasn't worked for drugs; it won't work for porn.

 

Before the advent of internet and smartphones I had to physically make a decision to enter a building with people watching me. Once that restriction was lifted, all it took was my own mind. Every sick and twisted thing I could look up was available to me. I have to live with my own SHAME daily.

 

I've thought about this a lot. If things were still as they were back then, I'm 90% confident I wouldn't be a porn addict. I probably never would have watched porn at all. But now it's just everywhere. It's a shame.

 

When we exercise our common sense, in practical terms, near everyone agrees that moderate censorship by the state is a good thing. It's only when we think of censorship as inimical to freedom, where that freedom is abstract and absolute, that we condemn censorship.

Consider that the moderators of this site will exercise censorship at times. If it was a free for all, this site would soon descend into chaos. Society is the same.

 

I totally agree with this. It's common sense that some censorship is going to happen and is necessary.

 

The Internet and all the free videos sure made it easier to get stuff to JO too. I did one time in my life go to an adult book store and buy a magazine. Now thinking about this, it shows what a sick ass I was. I was married with two kids. I had taken the day off from work to fix my car. My garage was near an are with the adult store,so I took the time to go there buy the magazine and JO a few times.
I am also ashamed at the time I wasted some years ago staying at my job after closing and using the computer there to JO before coming home .
I don't know if the Internet is to blame, I am sure if that wasn't available you could always mail away for DVD porn just like the used to sell 8mm films and VHS tapes years ago.

 

Sure, moderate censorship is necessary. But making internet porn as a whole straight up illegal is not something I would consider moderate...

 

Oh, the irony, where the mind must be freed from 'freedom'.

 

Haha seriously! Freedom is one of the most misunderstood concepts.

 

I think, as has been found with drugs and alcohol, prohibition solves nothing, but regulation solves much. A large part of the problem with internet porn is the control of distribution. With magazines or movies at a retail location, age checks are easy. One of the problems with prohibition was that selling alcohol to minors was exactly the same crime as selling it to adults. If you were already (illegally) selling alcohol, there was no disincentive to serve minors. Online, we all know age checks are more or less useless.

Making porn illegal would push its production into the same realm as sex trafficking, and its distribution into yet darker corners of the internet. You would basically be combining the problems of prostitution with the problems of drugs. Regulating distribution somehow would seem the most logical course to limit porn's harmful effects.

 

And this hasn't stopped people from accessing them. Pretty much everyone who wants to use heroin is still using it. I don't use heroin, but that's only because I have absolutely no desire to use it. If it was legalised tomorrow, I wouldn't be rushing out to buy it. And I've had countless people in chat rooms try to send me child pornography, so I can only assume they have somehow managed to get around the laws.

Unfortunately, this question will always come down to economics, rather than morals. OK, so we decide some things should be illegal because our society has a moral issue with them. Do we have the resources to enforce those laws? A few years ago I actually tried to call the police when someone was trying to break into my home. It took them TWO HOURS to respond -- and even then their response was just a phone call to ask if the guy was still there. Either the police were overworked, or they were just lazy.

Are these people really sitting there all day, monitoring a screen because someone *might* be downloading something they shouldn't? And at what cost? What other laws will go unenforced while they are watching that screen? Seriously, if the police can't enforce the laws we already have, they won't enforce any new ones any better. What good is one more broken law?

 

I do not think that porn should be illegal.

I always compare pornography to gambling, alcohol, tobacco, cocaine, morphine, junk food, prostitution, etc. In which they can be harmful, but if someone decides to start, it's their choice. (They should be taught the risks, btw.)

I do this it deserves economic regulations, so that the "sellers" don't go out of hand (which should be legal [as criminals won't listen to decent rules] with many restriction).

 

Definitely agree with them, some people genuinely like to the life of being sedentary, eating junk food, and fapping. Hey, it's their problem, not mine. I decided I wanted to leave mine because it caused me a lot of problem..

But who am I to say what they can or can't do? Knowing what I am now, if I could go back in the past and tell my past self that porn has caused me a lot of problems, and even going into details about it. I wouldn't listen, I would still fap away.

And I am pretty sure the porn industry didn't really know about this when it first started, they just wanted people to have fun.

 

Every time I hear anything with drugs it quickly brings my mind to a picture of the Mexican marines when they got their bodies mutilated and body spread all across the city. When you buy drugs, know who you're empowering.

 

Which would make it exactly the same problem to consume porn, were porn illegal. As if the mob and the Hell's Angels wouldn't divvy it up.

 

i dont think we would ever be able to outlaw "all" pornography, however i do think that the porn industry should be regulated much better, porn over the last ten years has changed into a very extreme and unnecessary version of itself, its really not healthy for the viewer and of course its seriously damaging to the women who are being exploited on the other side of the screen,

the porn industry seem to be getting more and more extreme by the year and its really becoming vile in my opinion, if we cant ban all pornography then we should at very least ban "teen porn" it is by far the most vile and dangerous kind of porn, they should raise the age of porn actors, forget about the 18,19 age alowance and raise it to 20 and get rid of the whole catagory completely because it leaves far too much room for grey areas and for porn sites and sickos to blur the lines of morality, teen porn wasnt really a catagory in the early days and no-one missed it, straight forward porn was all we needed, but these days its one of the most popular genres and as a society we would have to ask ourselves do we need this shit at all?

as far as im concerned we dont, but the porn industry seem to think that we do and they are trying their best to damage us all with this shit and making it all seem so normal and just a bit of fun, even if you try to view a more "wholesome" kind of porn (if that even exists) they will keep throwing teen porn at you as a great catagory to view which is beyond wrong in my opinion, so if we cant ban all pornography then we should at very least put a blanket ban on "teen" pornography and push for the porn industry to be better regulated and to scale back on how extreme it is becoming,

best thing to do at this stage is to just stop watching porn alltogether, the best way to hit the porn industry where it hurts is to simply abstain!