Do you think pornography is acceptable?

[dbgtz]

First of all; Please don't reply with something inappropriate X_X I don't want to hear about your 'exciting' life.

Ok,

So we were doing a whole topic on sex in the media (in R.e) and it sort of mentioned pornography. Now I was just wondering if you all find pornography acceptable...

1. I know that A LOT of men watch/claim to watch porn - I mean, at my school it's like a generalised discussion...instead of "How are you" it's now "Did you have a nice _____ last night" which is frankly disgusting, I don't really want to hear you discussing that. I also said men because I don't pornography is such a big issue with women - I thought it was more of a 'man thing' (sorry if I'm wrong) - if you asked a man to name 3 porn sites, he could. If you asked a woman..not so sure.

I just find it ridiculous that you want to discuss how your 'evening' was, in that manner. Especially in school... I'd rather listen to them blabber on about CoD or whatever it is.

2. The average age children first watch porn. Statistics for America suggest that the first age a child watches pornography is 11. In the UK, it's 10. Do you really want that thought of a year/grade 5 or 6 having 'fun' over some naked stranger..it's disgusting and perverted. I have a 9 and a 10 year old sister - I really don't want the thought that they've watched it >.<

So I think that it shouldn't be acceptable at all, especially if it's being shown to children at such a ridiculously low age!

3. Your personal view on pornography. I'm gonna admit that I'm one of the people who hasn't watched porn. I just don't see why on earth you would want to 'get stimulated' over some random girl via the internet/magazines/whatever - seriously, it's disgusting (in my opinion). If you were to ask, yes I do know 2 pornographic sites, no I am not going to post them due to common sense. I only know them because they're discussed so often.

Also, I think that all pornography should just be banned. In China, they have the strictest filtering system of all - wikipedia is blocked, youtube is blocked - heck, even amnesty international is blocked. Is all porn blocked... no! They've 'relaxed' on pornographic websites..but not YouTube :S. I don't see why pornography doesn't deserve a world-wide ban, if you really want to get stimulated 1. You have an imagination or 2. Wait for a partner.

Sorry, went on a bit of a ramble. I'm just completely opposed to pornography - But I'd love to hear all your views. Do you think it is acceptable or not.

* I know child pornography (explicit images of children) is banned in..nearly all countries *

1) Men? How old are you? Anyway I agree people talking about a **** is disgusting.

2) Just because they watch porn at a young age, does not mean they are getting off from it and they are just curious.

3) You say why you wouldn't want to get stimulated over a random girl, well many species have it with different mates each year, and I know that there are several types of "mating" but the point stands, ish. And the fact that trying to get laid would be much harder (especially at a younger age when old jim could be too small) and a much larger danger.

To be honest, the government should not be allowed to intervene with what a person does in private in their own home unless it affects others without their consent. And though there may be really nasty porn, it is the parents responsibility to care for the child and while you say that children can bypass it, could the parent check history (site and searches, I doubt a child would remember to delete them and even if they did the parent could quite easily notice that all of the history is gone)? Could they not watch them when they are home? Could they not buy further software to prevent access to porn sites which is much more restrictive?

To me, you are just getting personal opinion involved into what is pretty much a political subject (the banning of pornography). Whilst lazy and crap parents would support you all the way, you'd still have the young and old who do not have a woman and have sexual desires to counter it.

[Slowpoke]

To be honest, the government should not be allowed to intervene with what a person does in private in their own home unless it affects others without their consent

That would be incredibly hard to police. Without going into detail, there is a large market for violent porn, bestiality porn, child porn and other types of extreme porn. These types of porn, when made, are often forced upon the people/animals taking part which is a negative impact upon them. By watching it, the viewer isn't actually affecting anyone else but as long as the demand is there, more will be created which in turn is harming more people and animals - am I making sense here? How are the government supposed to police those areas if they aren't intervening? It's extremely difficult subject to debate

I do think pornography is acceptable, but it's important that there are laws on what sorts are acceptable

[Misawa]

Pornography sold in the UK is already regulated by the BBFC.

[Slowpoke]

But surely there are loads of dodgy sites with unregulated content (ie, child/violent/rape/bestiality porn) that are accessible once you know the right (wrong) sort of people? It's like drug dealers only much more disgusting and malicious

[AgnesIO]

But surely there are loads of dodgy sites with unregulated content (ie, child/violent/rape/bestiality porn) that are accessible once you know the right (wrong) sort of people? It's like drug dealers only much more disgusting and malicious

And let's be honest, the really bad sites would escape it anyway..

[Rishwin]

For younger kids, no.

For adults, I guess they are mature enough to watch it, after all, it is their life. You can't stop them.

[betheh]

its ok i suppose, but it should be more secure on the net so younger people dnt find it ;s

[GommeInc]

But surely there are loads of dodgy sites with unregulated content (ie, child/violent/rape/bestiality porn) that are accessible once you know the right (wrong) sort of people? It's like drug dealers only much more disgusting and malicious

Freedom of Speech via the internet. Obviously the UK doesn't have any law regarding freedom of speech and expression, but the internet is incredibly old now and to act out on the internet now is stupid and pointless. If people get off on beastiliality, then so be it. It should only be a problem when an individual goes from virtual to physical, when a UK citizen begins sleeping with an animal publically and actually physically getting involved. It's why the Government at the moment is considered slow and out of touch, because they are acting on technoligical advances too late when the majority of people do not care and should not be considered criminals when the minorities of imbesiles feel offended or actually break UK based laws. I think internet laws should only effect people in the UK or the country of origin. Child pornography is an interesting subject. I don't think it's much of a problem if a person watches it, but it becomes a problem if they begin to reinact or distributed it, the latter two being breaches of copyright and actual UK/country specific laws. So if people film beastiphilia porn in the UK, they are breaking UK law but if someone is watching it in the UK in private then we shouldn't give a damn unless they begin reproducing it or acting it out in the UK.

Welcome to the age of Globalisation, where regulation is impossible unless done internationally

As for porn, it's mostly fine, even stuff not covered by the BBFC (amateur porn?). It's only when it breaks laws based purely in the country of origin that the content should be a concern. If parents are so badly informed by internet security then it's their fault, not the whole nation.

[:Gero]

The internet is for...


On a serious note, I think it's perfectly fine. People have a choice to go to these sites, watch what they choose and what not to.The only problem I see with the internet today is the 'ease' of access to these sites. As many of you have stated, Children are a major concern, not exposing them to such content.

Though there are some types of porn that is just plain wrong.

[dbgtz]

That would be incredibly hard to police. Without going into detail, there is a large market for violent porn, bestiality porn, child porn and other types of extreme porn. These types of porn, when made, are often forced upon the people/animals taking part which is a negative impact upon them. By watching it, the viewer isn't actually affecting anyone else but as long as the demand is there, more will be created which in turn is harming more people and animals - am I making sense here? How are the government supposed to police those areas if they aren't intervening? It's extremely difficult subject to debate

I do think pornography is acceptable, but it's important that there are laws on what sorts are acceptable

By what I said the viewer would not go against the law as they had the intent of "getting off" not making the porn, whereas the person who made it had the intent of forcing the person or animal into sexual acts. I think if someone requested more, then that would be a tricky and would be to the decision of the court.