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Originally Posted by devincf
Comparing watching athletics to watching porn is flat out stupid. I mean, if we were all sitting around a dorm room stoned we might think it was right brilliant, but it's nonsense.
Porn is created to be a masturbatory aid. It's not instructional, it's not aesthetic and it sure as hell isn't competitive.
I have two main areas of trouble with people who watch a tremendous amount of porn. One is that these people are most likely deeply sexually dysfunctional on many levels. Porn does not create realistic or healthy expectations of sexuality, and these chronic masturbators are tying their sexual release into this very heavily.
Those are the least of the troubling people, though. They just have fucked up sexuality, which isn't all that rare. This is just how it manifests. But creepier are the ones who consume porn like regular people consume TV shows. Porn is not created to be consumed that way. It's like being so in to Teletubbies that you know all about the people in the costumes. You would be disturbed to discover your friend was that into Teletubbies, and it's because your friend is finding too much meaning in something where it doesn't exist.
The world of nerds is an obsessive one, so when obsessive porn fans are taken to task the people who are obsessively into RoboTech take offense. And because the consumption of porn is so secret and personal, people who are moderate or casual porn consumers also take offense. But I am talking about people who are chronically and obsessively drawn to porn, or people who place a sick amount of significance on it and the people who make it.
Moreover, the second kind of person is deeply delusional - by focusing on the stars and the behind the scenes aspects, they think they're involved in a legitimate branch of entertainment. The reality is that, even today, the porn industry is a grotesquely exploitative one. Worse than simply supporting this currently degrading industry with your money, you are helping create the myth of legitimacy around it.
I am not down on porn in general. I understand its place and its uses, but that's the key part. I understand its place and its uses. I believe that porn could be an industry that is relatively free of exploitation, but porn fans don't help that happen.
At any rate, your sports to porn analogy is empty and hollow and indicates a gross lack of understanding about either porn or sports. Your analogy could further be extended to people who look at paintings - would you say that watching Captain Stabbin's Double Penetration Extravaganza is in any way comparable to looking at Van Gogh's Sunflowers? Put some thought into your thoughts before you type them out.
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Your whole post about why the sports analogy fails comes down to this;
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So what? People find uses for things beyond their original intent, and clearly some people have found beauty and satisfaction in porn beyond any intent its creators might have had. The same is true of professional sports. Football was not created in order to provide passive entertainment, yet an obsessively voyeuristic culture has evolved around it.
If you think that the average human body is beautiful, let alone a toned and fit one, porn that contains beauty is aesthetic. I haven't seen a lot of ugly people in porn, especially women.
It doesn't matter if porn or athletics are instructional or competitive, that has nothing to do with the voyeuristic lifestyle you have a problem with.
You don't like people that watch other people have sex if they're not horny. You don't give much of an explanation for why, and since that is a subjective statement based on opinion, you don't need to. However, if you're going to publically and authoritatively dismiss other people's opinions, you have to give some actual reasons, not just petulant rhetoric. Your dismissal of my analogy as some stoner's philosophy is a good example of this.
Porn and sports have evolved beyond their original uses, at least for a sizable chunk of the population. If you choose to see voyeuristic obsession as creepy, so be it, just make sure to include your own obsessions in the creepy category. Judging by your arguments with Diva, you seem to have formed a Horcrux with the movie Battle Royale.
You see a night and day difference between being obsessed with porn and being obsessed with movies or sports, apparently because porn is supposed to only be used for masturbation and is not a true art form. I would agrue that the act of two highly experienced people having beautiful sex has its artistic merits, whether or not cultured geek society agrees.