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Yes, it ruins our society No, it is a healthy fetish

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Is Pornography degrading to our society?

Yes, it ruins our society
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No, it is a healthy fetish
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– MyPic DebateMan(378) Vote Up Vote Down
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Pornography exploits women and has no redeeming social value. It commoditizes sex and objectifies women.

Posted 84 days ago
– MyPic sparsely(184) Opposed Vote Up Vote Down
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And gay porn objectifies...?

Posted 83 days ago
– MyPic jessald(274) Opposed Vote Up Vote Down
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What's wrong with commoditizing sex? Sex is a natural, normal thing.

Posted 79 days ago
– MyPic kirstie1126(187) Vote Up Vote Down
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The problem I see with porn is that it desensitizes us towards what is beautiful or normal or realistic! What is beautiful is the human body, not a ton of plastic and silicone.

Posted 83 days ago
– MyPic jessald(274) Opposed Vote Up Vote Down
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Soap operas could distort one's idea of what is beautiful or normal or realistic -- so could Disney movies. Does that mean they are degrading to society?

Posted 82 days ago
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– MyPic Paul-ish(66) Opposed Vote Up Vote Down
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Actually, yes. Ever read Fahrenheit 451? What you said is close to what Ray Bradbury is getting at. No, Fahrenheit 451 is not about censorship, its about the degrading effects of TV. He tears into soap operas in the novel, and I agree with him. Porn and soaps are similar in that they are usually not intellectually stimulating. Like a soap opera, a little porn now and then isn't bad, but don't let it consume you.

Posted 75 days ago
– MyPic tonicole(378) Favored Vote Up Vote Down
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go kirstie !!

porn downgrades what we see as something thats supposed to be a special moment with the person you love to something to amuse us. it's sick and wrong.

Posted 18 days ago
– MyPic Bradf0rd(591) Opposed Vote Up Vote Down
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I've seen much plastic and silicon throughout my life in various places... even this so called PORNOGRAPHY, yet I do not find it beautiful...

Posted 83 days ago
– MyPic geoff(619) Vote Up Vote Down
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If you removed the financial dimension from the porn industry, would there be any willing porn stars? For instance, say 100% of a porn star's earnings went to the government or even a charity. Would young women be so eager to have sex with strangers on film?

Posted 79 days ago
– MyPic jessald(274) Opposed Vote Up Vote Down
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If you removed the financial dimension from the burger-flipping industry, would there be any willing burger flippers? For instance, say 100% of a burger flipper's earnings went to the government or even a charity. Would people be so eager to spend their time flipping burgers?

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No, of course not. They're doing it for the money. That doesn't address the question of whether or not porn is degrading to society.

Posted 79 days ago
– MyPic geoff(619) Opposed Vote Up Vote Down
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My point is that it isn't something people are willing to do just because it's a sexual proclivity as some claim.

Posted 79 days ago
– MyPic sparsely(184) Opposed Vote Up Vote Down
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Yes, they will.

Posted 79 days ago
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– MyPic philthmoor(14) Vote Up Vote Down
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although im addicted to it i do believe it damages the perception we have of women Although i dont subscribe to the taboo feelings some have about Sex i do realize the damage seeing women as sex tools can be hurtful.the porn has become more degrading and lower nature thruout the years so yeah id rather make homemeade porn and watch it on my own time ..the best way to indulge

Posted 77 days ago
– MyPic Cdelvalle(133) Opposed Vote Up Vote Down
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I've watched pornography for many years and it has never changed my perception of women. And I know plenty of people who watch pornography and are extremely respectful of women.

For some people, this negative change in perception may happen. But those are people who have become obsessed with pornography.

It doesn't matter what you obsess about - food, driving fast, going to the gym - obsessions are negative. Does that mean that all of these things are degrading our society?

Taken as a whole, pornography is actual helpful to society. It helps eliminate dangerous social taboo's that have hurt so many peoples lives. Just watch the movie Kinsey to see the damage a sexually taboo'd society can have on an individual.

Posted 71 days ago
– MyPic neelanqj(46) Vote Up Vote Down
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Yes.

I would get SO much more work done if it were not for porn, and I would learn so much more. I got addicted to it, and now it wastes a few hours of my day everyday.

Posted 75 days ago
– MyPic truthfinder(2) Vote Up Vote Down
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People who like porn [as opposed to healthy relationships with real women etc.,are inadequate in themselves and in their ability to have overall creative relationships ,fullstop.Their animal ,lower selve is overactivated and will result in the long run in them losing their status as a human being .What goes around come around,so you will become a victim of sexual exploitation in some ghastly place,the cycle will continue to descend,until you become no more than an abused animal some where and it will not stop.In other words hell.Christians think that hell exists somewhere else ,but no it exists right here on this earth,and sexual perversion,ie.no relationship or exploitation ,or same sex ,sex, will all lead to hell on this lovely planet.They are all from the 8 th house ,the house of death .There are other heaven and hells, but it all begins here sometimes not far away ,sometimes on another continent,but you can never escape the laws of karma. And yes there is evil,and there is good.Some people would have you believe you can avoid the consequences of you actions, but no you never can .The greatest negative karma comes from seriously crude sex.The churches in recent times have been too strict about divorce and condoms etc but you cannot emphasis enough the cruder side of porno.as bad

Posted 69 days ago
– MyPic HakunaMatata(21) Vote Up Vote Down
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Yah bu tthat's why it's so much fun, right?

Posted 76 days ago
– MyPic passionate1(67) Vote Up Vote Down
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Of course pornography is degrading to our society. What is pornography other than our body's sexual desire and our lack of control over it. All that it does is teach us to treat people as sex objects, not as equal human beings worthy of our respect. It essentially turns us into animals, which is the exact opposite of what human society is, the distancing of ourselves from animal like behavior.

Posted 84 days ago
– MyPic sparsely(184) Favored Vote Up Vote Down
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We already are animals. Our two biggest drives are sex and food

Your argument is akin to saying The Food Network makes us treat other living organisms as food objects, and trying to demonize them for it.

Get a grip.

Posted 83 days ago