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Originally Posted by knox
you're right. what your brother said is very disturbing - but I heard many grown men say the same.
The idea of keeping people away doesn't seem real. I'd say the problem is not porn itself - but how it is today and what interests it has been serving.
It's also not real because porn is everywhere - from doll factories, to mainstream pop songs and advertising.
the other day I got the chance to look at some "erotic" book from the 40s in an antique shop. It looks almost like poetry compared to the porn we see today. But, above all, it looked very REAL. Real bodies, real faces, situations. Also, these "caracthers" seemed to have a personality and preferences of their own.
You could say it almost estimulated imagination rather than killing it.
baudrillard had predicted that one day the "unreal" or "above real" would become more important than reality.
Hyperreality, porn is hypersex.
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i think it's not impossible to keep porn away from young kids... one thing to do is to make sure they don't have a computer in their room. when me and my older brother were younger, the computer was in the living room, so there was no way to surf the web unsupervised.
what bugs me the most is that all the mystery and excitement are gone. or as someone else put it: "when i was a kid you were lucky to catch sight of a boob here and there, and that would be enough for a month or two to go all crazy about. but nowadays kids have seen everything, in color and high definition, before they even realize what sex can mean to people!"