Pr0n's Effect On Society

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Posted by Zonk on Friday March 31, 2006 @12:51PM from the keep-it-clean-please dept.

Rytis writes "An article at the Financial Times is analysing the growing impact of internet pornography, the phenomena itself and the problems that it causes to our society. Surveys within Great Britain have shown that more than a half of 9-19 years olds have seen pornography online. From the article: 'To some men, Haynes argues, clicking on porn is simply a way to pass the time. It's a hobby. Once they'd idly play solitaire; now they idly click on a porn site. Others, though, succumb to addiction: Most addictions are to do with internal emptiness, wanting to fill up dead space, and addiction is always destructive.'"

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Like playing solitaire? (Score:5, Funny)

by clevershark ( 130296 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @12:54PM (#15034718) Homepage

Heck, looking at pr0n is "playing solitaire", if you know what I mean...

Addiction Is Not Destructive! (Score:5, Funny)

by Dante Shamest ( 813622 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @12:55PM (#15034729)

Most addictions are to do with internal emptiness, wanting to fill up dead space, and addiction is always destructive.'"
Porn not bad. I can good still type.

Re:Like playing solitaire? (Score:5, Funny)

by neersign ( 956437 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @12:55PM (#15034737)

wanting to fill up dead space
and that dead space is usually a tissue

Sure, try to tell your boss they're the same... (Score:5, Funny)

by Flounder ( 42112 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @12:56PM (#15034738)

Once they'd idly play solitaire; now they idly click on a porn site.
But until you can look at porn while sitting on hold for tech support at work, it's just not the same.

Re:porn is the shit (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @12:56PM (#15034739)

Especially in Germany.

Effect On Society (Score:5, Funny)

by tjw ( 27390 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:02PM (#15034790) Homepage

There is no doubt that internet pornography has a negative effect on Society. I witness it daily.

This message is for you fellow customers of AceDSL: Stop all the downloads. I'm trying to play ET and you're killing my ping. You're not the only one with addictions you know.

If we have any hope of salvaging our society you must redeem yourselves! Remember, the first path towards salvation is moderation, so start rate limiting.

Re:Only half... (Score:5, Funny)

by HTL2001 ( 836298 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:06PM (#15034841)

"But seriously, what's with the title, "pr0n"? How old are we here? Call it porn, or don't talk about it at all."

http://bash.org/?627168 [bash.org]
<Cobra> so i was watching a pr0n
<Thunder> wait
<Thunder> why u guys always say pr0n instead of porn ??
Thunder has been kicked by Guardian (No porn on this channel !)
<Cobra> ...
<Cobra> so i was watching a pr0n

Re:Addiction Is Not Destructive! (Score:3, Funny)

by DaveM753 ( 844913 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:07PM (#15034852)

You should try your other hand: it'll feel like someone else is typing.

Re:Damn, pr0n in the title... (Score:5, Funny)

by Otis2222222 ( 581406 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:09PM (#15034876) Homepage

From TFA:
more than a half of 9-19 years olds have seen pornography online
...And the other half are lying.

Re:Rationalization (Score:5, Funny)

by Stradenko ( 160417 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:10PM (#15034894) Homepage

To paraphrase the parent:

Safe sex is in your hands.

Re:Rationalization (Score:2, Funny)

by tbcpp ( 797625 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:15PM (#15034942)

I agree here totally. The needed "safety valve" is a good way to expend energy, and be creative. When you keep busy that energy that is normally given to the sex drives is diverted elsewhere. Some say mastubation is better than outright sex. They may be right. But I say simply diverting that sexual energy and waiting to even think about sex until your married is better. I think the most wonderful thing a man could offer a woman on their wedding night is the assurance that he has never lusted over another woman in his life. That's almost impossible. But being a virgin until your wedding night is just as important. That is my goal, and I am working the other.

Re:You cannot replace anything with nothing... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:16PM (#15034952)

addiction...can only be overcome if somthing is used to replace it
So true -- I've replaced smoking and watching television with...knitting and listening to the radio. Cheaper, healthier, more productive. Men should knit more.

Re:I'm wondering about porn mags. (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:17PM (#15034961)

Sure when I was 9 or 10 (late 70s) I saw Playboys, Penthouse, etc. I guess the question is ...is there a difference between seeing a female in Playboy in one of those mags and seeing what is on the net. One has a woman posing sexily and the other has her sticking her fist up some other chicks ass while a doneky rapes her.

Re:Rationalization (Score:5, Funny)

by eln ( 21727 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:18PM (#15034977)

I think the most wonderful thing a man could offer a woman on their wedding night is the assurance that he has never lusted over another woman in his life.

Why would telling your wife that you're gay on your wedding night be the most wonderful thing you could do for her?

Because if you've gotten yourself all the way to marrying age without even lusting after a woman, you're either getting married at age 10 or you're a homosexual.

Re:Rationalization (Score:5, Funny)

by UserGoogol ( 623581 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:22PM (#15035010)

Why would telling your wife that you're gay on your wedding night be the most wonderful thing you could do for her?

Threesomes.

Gadgetzan (Score:4, Funny)

by Dolly_Llama ( 267016 ) * writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:25PM (#15035043) Homepage

A world without pr0n?

What else am I supposed to do on the long flight from Ogrimmar and Gadgetzan?

Re:Heh (Score:2, Funny)

by rehtonAesoohC ( 954490 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:25PM (#15035048) Journal

Haha, that makes me think of a Family Guy episode I saw where the usual group of guys is watching TV.

TV: "Next week on Deadwood." Camera pans to two cowboys looking at porno magazines...
Cowboy 1: "Anything yet?"
Cowboy 2: "Nope, nothin' yet."
TV: "Stay tuned!"

But, as Dr. Cox said on Scrubs... (Score:2, Funny)

by cparisi ( 136611 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:26PM (#15035055) Homepage

"I am fairly sure that if they took porn off the internet, there would only be one website left, and it would be called 'bring back the porn'"

-Dr. Cox (Scrubs)

yeah, porn made the internet work for us all (Score:2, Funny)

by osoese ( 933101 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:34PM (#15035125)

Just remember the next time you download a video that it was probably the internet porn industry that has a big hand in making that technology available to the masses...

Without porn the internet would not be where it is today.

...but Al Gore might still take the credit for it.

sorry..., I had to throw that last part in there somewhere.

Re:Rationalization (Score:5, Funny)

by rhakka ( 224319 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:37PM (#15035146)

Interesting, I think the most wonderful thing you could give your wife on your wedding night is a few really good orgasms and a sex experience that lasts more than five seconds (not counting bra removal time).

Necrophilia (Score:5, Funny)

by hoggoth ( 414195 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:38PM (#15035160) Journal

> wanting to fill up dead space

Ok, now that's gross. I didn't know necrophilia was that big a problem.

Re:I'm wondering about porn mags. (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:40PM (#15035172)

Where'd you see that?

Re:Here we go again... (Score:5, Funny)

by mopower70 ( 250015 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:47PM (#15035247) Homepage

I say just ADD "video games", "beer", "marijuana" and you've got yourself one hell of a weekend.

Re:survey says... (Score:5, Funny)

by slashflood ( 697891 ) writes: <flow@NoSPaM.howflow.com> on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:52PM (#15035297) Homepage Journal

I'd rather catch my 15 year old masturbating to Internet porn than impregnating or being impregnated by someone else.

Your 15-year-old has a choice? Wow...

Re:I'm wondering about porn mags. (Score:4, Funny)

by Tepshen ( 851674 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:57PM (#15035352)

Link?

Re:survey says... (Score:5, Funny)

by eln ( 21727 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @01:58PM (#15035363)

We're a very progressive household.

The only problem with porn... (Score:2, Funny)

by DNAspark99 ( 218197 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @02:01PM (#15035397)

...is that it's filling up 98% of my hard drive!!

ARGH! (Score:2, Funny)

by Tofflos ( 942124 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @02:23PM (#15035621)

350+ posts and no good links!?

Re:This is so true (Score:5, Funny)

by hey! ( 33014 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @02:34PM (#15035714) Homepage Journal

My Aunt Tillie always used anecdotal evidence. I doubt she ever cited a statistically valid study in her life, and she lived to be a hundred and five.

Re:I'm wondering about porn mags. (Score:2, Funny)

by cashman73 ( 855518 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @02:34PM (#15035719) Journal

So, 50% of the 9-19 year olds have seen online porn.

What do you think the percentage of slashdot users that have seen online p0rn is? 99%? 100%?

There's porn on the Internet??? (Score:5, Funny)

by anonymous_wombat ( 532191 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @02:50PM (#15035840)

Why didn't you guys tell me!

The internet is for PORN! video (Score:3, Funny)

by wwmedia ( 950346 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @02:58PM (#15035916)

the internet is for porn

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-568168227 5335461822&q=internet+for+porn&pl=true/ [google.com]
the above video is absolutely hillarious. check it out

The internet is for pr0n (Score:2, Funny)

by pdtp ( 719844 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @03:24PM (#15036117)

"Just grab your dick and double click" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-444698155 4735098778 [google.com]

Re:Gender (Score:5, Funny)

by soft_guy ( 534437 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @03:28PM (#15036153)

I assumed that it was half of all teenagers: 99.99% of the boys and 0.01% of the girls.

Re:What fucking garbage!!! (Score:3, Funny)

by Call Me Black Cloud ( 616282 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @03:33PM (#15036207)

You just made the point of the article. You're no longer stimulated by what once stimulated you - you need more extreme and different images to get off. Are you better off now because you're turned on by wrestling boots? How much time a day to you spend on these activities?

I pity you and your sad life, for yours is the definition of "empty". Your justifications, your defensiveness, your attack on those against online porn are pathetic. I write all this not as a "religious busybody" (because I'm not particularly religious) but as a human. You're obsessed, addicted, and you don't even know it. Or maybe you do and throw up excuses to justify it.

Re:Rationalization (Score:3, Funny)

by Citizen of Earth ( 569446 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @03:36PM (#15036230)

the bible also doesn't say that Jesus pissed or crapped. Are we then to assume that Jesus never did those things and we shouldn't either?

Well, I have no trouble believing that religious people never crap. In fact, this theory explains quite a lot.

the bible is not complete. Do a little research into how the New Testement was created.

Hey, I can assure you first-hand that committees are infallible. And this particular one even had a majority vote that Jesus was divine. You can't beat the majority vote of a committee of indoctrinated cult members!

Re:Rationalization (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @03:41PM (#15036275)

3. It's interesting to hear that you wouldn't sleep with a woman until you've married her. May I take it you don't test-drive cars until after you've purchased them?
While I get what you're saying, you should really try to think of an analogy which does not include the word "purchase" in it...

Re:and addiction? (Score:2, Funny)

by blighter ( 577804 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @03:48PM (#15036323)

If porn and excercise were equally beneficial I'd be able to juggle 18-wheelers...

Re:Damn, pr0n in the title... (Score:3, Funny)

by Homestar Breadmaker ( 962113 ) writes: on Friday March 31, 2006 @05:00PM (#15037018)

"I'm sure online porn probably encourages people to commit sexual crimes"

Yeah, and I'm sure spiderman encourages people to jump off buildings.

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Like playing solitaire? (Score:5, Funny)

Addiction Is Not Destructive! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Like playing solitaire? (Score:5, Funny)

Sure, try to tell your boss they're the same... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:porn is the shit (Score:2, Funny)

Effect On Society (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Only half... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Addiction Is Not Destructive! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Damn, pr0n in the title... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Rationalization (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Rationalization (Score:2, Funny)

Re:You cannot replace anything with nothing... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:I'm wondering about porn mags. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Rationalization (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Rationalization (Score:5, Funny)

Gadgetzan (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Heh (Score:2, Funny)

But, as Dr. Cox said on Scrubs... (Score:2, Funny)

yeah, porn made the internet work for us all (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Rationalization (Score:5, Funny)

Necrophilia (Score:5, Funny)

Re:I'm wondering about porn mags. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Here we go again... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:survey says... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:I'm wondering about porn mags. (Score:4, Funny)

Re:survey says... (Score:5, Funny)

The only problem with porn... (Score:2, Funny)

ARGH! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:This is so true (Score:5, Funny)

Re:I'm wondering about porn mags. (Score:2, Funny)

There's porn on the Internet??? (Score:5, Funny)

The internet is for PORN! video (Score:3, Funny)

The internet is for pr0n (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Gender (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What fucking garbage!!! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Rationalization (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Rationalization (Score:1, Funny)

Re:and addiction? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Damn, pr0n in the title... (Score:3, Funny)

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