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Crazy Pastor Wants a Million Man Crusade to End Porn (Original Post) rdubwiley Jul 2013 OP
When it comes to important issues like this... TlalocW Jul 2013 #1
no mattter how many people do or don't show up--Fox will say at least 10 million marched dembotoz Jul 2013 #2
Because.... women don't also watch porn? AtheistCrusader Jul 2013 #3
Yeah rdubwiley Jul 2013 #4
A jizzilion man crusade? Blue Owl Jul 2013 #5
Had to post it... Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2013 #6
There's a circle jerk in which I have NO interest whatsoever! Behind the Aegis Jul 2013 #7
With luck; he'll end Porn by next Thursday..... zebonaut Jul 2013 #8
OH NO PEOPLE ARE ENJOYING SEX IN A WAY I CAN'T! thefool_wa Jul 2013 #9

TlalocW

(15,384 posts)
1. When it comes to important issues like this...
Thu Jul 11, 2013, 05:00 PM
Jul 2013

I turn to the character of Dr. Cox from, "Scrubs."

"I'm fairly sure that if they took all the porn off the Internet, there'd only be 1 website left, and it would be called Bring Back The Porn."

TlalocW

dembotoz

(16,808 posts)
2. no mattter how many people do or don't show up--Fox will say at least 10 million marched
Thu Jul 11, 2013, 05:38 PM
Jul 2013

far exceeding organizers expectations

thefool_wa

(1,867 posts)
9. OH NO PEOPLE ARE ENJOYING SEX IN A WAY I CAN'T!
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 10:35 AM
Jul 2013

Better stop them!!!

IMHO, while the internet may have done horrible things to the production values of the majority of sex videos out there, I think it has improved the conditions under which much porn is made.

When it was exclusively controlled by a capitalist industry, you ended up with widespread stories of abuse, coercion, and an assumption that the participants were of a certain "character" in order to "sell their bodies" to strangers on film. This is not my belief, but more a comment on the widespread perception of those who have historically chosen make pornographic movies.

Now, you have massive volume of people who care about each other deciding that its OK to share their intimate moments with the world. I will stop short of saying this is the majority of the porn available, but its prevalent enough now to have take much of the "whores and abusive men" prejudice away from those who participate in making sexually themed videos. You now have thousands of people making videos that were made under mutually caring conditions with the intent on sharing that, but without having to bow to a production company in order to do so.

This is re-localizing the power structure of the porn industry in a way. While you still have mega houses that produce sometimes startlingly HIGH quality pornographic videos, the emergence of the "cottage" porn industry, IMHO, should help to dissolve some of the stigma and get us to a place where sharing sexual moments between two consenting adults is just that, a situation controlled by two consenting adults and no one else's business.

I have no delusions that this shift will change the conservative point of view on Porn as they think even sex between consenting, heterosexual adults is within their domain to control. But, its been an interesting personal observation born of years of internet porn watching.

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