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  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    The prevalence of porn - even on TV (we catch bits of it through watching Gogglebox) has a lot to answer for I think.  I tried to imagine a world where the people paying to watch sex were women and if that was the case, what that sex might look like?  Girls seem to be expected to perform more and more acts that are for designed for men's pleasure rather than their own.  Having pornographic programming on any main TV channel seems to normalise it and it is all designed to please the man.  This simply reinforces the idea that girls and women exist for men to use. And worse, that girls themselves believe they have to behave in ways that please men. 
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • CharlotteFCharlotteF Posts: 337
    Youngsters don't watch mainstream telly though, they get their porn through their phones. Internet porn has definitely made some very extreme content easily accessible compared to when they had to acquire a VHS from the dodgy end of the video shop. 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    didyw said:
    The prevalence of porn - even on TV (we catch bits of it through watching Gogglebox) has a lot to answer for I think.  I tried to imagine a world where the people paying to watch sex were women and if that was the case, what that sex might look like?  Girls seem to be expected to perform more and more acts that are for designed for men's pleasure rather than their own.  Having pornographic programming on any main TV channel seems to normalise it and it is all designed to please the man.  This simply reinforces the idea that girls and women exist for men to use. And worse, that girls themselves believe they have to behave in ways that please men. 
    I watch Gogglebox every week and I seem to have missed the porn.
    Devon.
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    @Hostafan1 It was a clip from a programme fronted by Alice Levine called Sex Actually.  Found something about it here: https://metro.co.uk/2021/09/24/gogglebox-viewers-cringe-watching-graphic-sex-actually-scenes-15314334/
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Keep looking, @Hostafan1 :)
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    When you don't even know who's in the team

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    didyw said:
    @Hostafan1 It was a clip from a programme fronted by Alice Levine called Sex Actually.  Found something about it here: https://metro.co.uk/2021/09/24/gogglebox-viewers-cringe-watching-graphic-sex-actually-scenes-15314334/
    I saw that, just didn't consider it porn. They both seemed to enjoy doing it and neither seemed to feel exploited. 
    It's just sex.
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    People seem more offended by consensual sex than violence. They are happy to watch murder mysteries, war films etc, but copulation offends.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:
    People seem more offended by consensual sex than violence. They are happy to watch murder mysteries, war films etc, but copulation offends.
    and don't dare show anyone an erect penis
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Or breast feeding. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • NorthernJoeNorthernJoe Posts: 660
    I know someone who studied porn as part of a masters degree. Not exactly an expert but as part of a women's studies graduate course she learnt enough to know that porn is damaging to women at any level.  It's not just the violent or extreme porn to have to worry about,  even the consensual couple filming their sex for money is potentially that's damaging even if you don't recognise it.  There's enough academic research into the area to back that up apparently.  No idea what but the person who studied a part of the area of research I  trust when she told me that all porn is harmful.
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