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I think you might have to define "porn addiction" before I could make a choice. I'm a little confused about what it might be.

You might want to define what you consider pornography, as well. The old line "I know it when I see it", may not work here.

I know some people who wanted to stop looking at porn (what they defined as porn, that is), and found it very difficult to do so in spite of their desires. However, I also know some people who look at porn (again, according to their own definition) only occasionally and profess the ability to go for long periods of time without feeling any desire to see it. In my experience, the people in the former group often lacked the social connections of the people in the latter group. Also, the people in the former group tended to be young and male.

Cardinal Biggles wrote:I know some people who wanted to stop looking at porn (what they defined as porn, that is), and found it very difficult to do so in spite of their desires. However, I also know some people who look at porn (again, according to their own definition) only occasionally and profess the ability to go for long periods of time without feeling any desire to see it. In my experience, the people in the former group often lacked the social connections of the people in the latter group. Also, the people in the former group tended to be young and male.

I'm wondering if it's the religious taboo of sexuality that creates pornography in the first place. If everyone walk around naked as God made them (weather permitting), would the pornography industry go out of business?

Quasimodo wrote:

Cardinal Biggles wrote:I know some people who wanted to stop looking at porn (what they defined as porn, that is), and found it very difficult to do so in spite of their desires. However, I also know some people who look at porn (again, according to their own definition) only occasionally and profess the ability to go for long periods of time without feeling any desire to see it. In my experience, the people in the former group often lacked the social connections of the people in the latter group. Also, the people in the former group tended to be young and male.

I'm wondering if it's the religious taboo of sexuality that creates pornography in the first place. If everyone walk around naked as God made them (weather permitting), would the pornography industry go out of business?

Hard to say. It seems likely that there will always be a class of males whose undesirability to most desirable females will prevent them from having sex with any of those desirable females. If females stopped wearing clothes, how would the behavior of these males, relative to pornography (I guess we can define this as the material that they would otherwise use to facilitate orgasm), change? Unless the males could masturbate publicly with the females in view, I think that the desire to achieve orgasm would still be denied to them. Some of them with better memories might be able to retreat to a private place and stimulate themselves there, but I believe that many males aren't that talented. Maybe you'd find men utilizing cameras more often.

If there were no taboo against nudity, then the industry would probably find a way to make money from men who wanted to masturbate to live naked women. Most men would probably prefer this to traditional pornographic forms.

Droopy, your polls suck. Stop it.

Quasimodo wrote:
I'm wondering if it's the religious taboo of sexuality that creates pornography in the first place. If everyone walk around naked as God made them (weather permitting), would the pornography industry go out of business?

Nah. Guys would then just be surfing the internet, looking for women dressed in burqas or abeyas.

Morley wrote:

Quasimodo wrote:
I'm wondering if it's the religious taboo of sexuality that creates pornography in the first place. If everyone walk around naked as God made them (weather permitting), would the pornography industry go out of business?

Nah. Guys would then just be surfing the internet, looking for women dressed in burqas or abeyas.

LOL. That gal does have sexy eyes.

Reminds me of a cartoon I saw a hundred years ago. Two guys are talking in a nudist colony when a very shapely nude girl walks by. One guy says to the other "I bet she would look great in a tight sweater".

MrStakhanovite wrote:Droopy, your polls suck. Stop it.

Threatened in some way, Stak?

Quasimodo wrote:I think you might have to define "porn addiction" before I could make a choice. I'm a little confused about what it might be.

In general, the general syndrome follows closely, in core psychological attributes, the dynamics attending other kinds of addiction, such as drug, alcohol, and gambling addiction. The "drug of choice" is, however, different.

You might want to define what you consider pornography, as well. The old line "I know it when I see it", may not work here.

I already did that in my introductory poll.

By "pornography" I mean graphic media, of any kind, who's intent is prurient; who's intent is to stimulate, incite, and provoke sexual desire, ideation, and attempts to satiate such desires. The exploitation of human sexuality, in other words, as public entertainment stimulating further desire/craving for that entertainment as well as the activities portrayed therein.