pornography
1857, "description of prostitutes," from Fr. pornographie, from Gk. pornographos "(one) writing of prostitutes,"

from porne "prostitute," originally "bought, purchased" (with an original notion, probably of "female slave sold for prostitution;" related to pernanai "to sell," from PIE root per- "to traffic in, to sell," cf. L. pretium "price") + graphein "to write" (see -graphy).

Originally used of classical art and writing; application to modern examples began 1880s.

Main modern meaning "salacious writing or pictures" represents a slight shift from the etymology, though classical depictions of prostitution usually had this quality.




The Porn Myth
In the end, porn doesn't whet men's appetites—it turns them off the real thing.



* By Naomi Wolf
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At a benefit the other night, I saw Andrea Dworkin, the anti-porn activist most famous in the eighties for her conviction that opening the floodgates of pornography would lead men to see real women in sexually debased ways.

If we did not limit pornography, she argued—before Internet technology made that prospect a technical impossibility—most men would come to objectify women as they objectified porn stars, and treat them accordingly. In a kind of domino theory, she predicted, rape and other kinds of sexual mayhem would surely follow.

The feminist warrior looked gentle and almost frail.

The world she had, Cassandra-like, warned us about so passionately was truly here: Porn is, as David Amsden says, the “wallpaper” of our lives now. So was she right or wrong?



She was right about the warning, wrong about the outcome. As she foretold, pornography did breach the dike that separated a marginal, adult, private pursuit from the mainstream public arena.

The whole world, post-Internet, did become pornographized.


Young men and women are indeed being taught what sex is, how it looks, what its etiquette and expectations are, by pornographic training—and this is having a huge effect on how they interact.

But the effect is not making men into raving beasts.

On the contrary: The onslaught of porn is responsible for deadening male libido in relation to real women, and leading men to see fewer and fewer women as “porn-worthy.”

Far from having to fend off porn-crazed young men, young women are worrying that as mere flesh and blood, they can scarcely get, let alone hold, their attention.

Here is what young women tell me on college campuses when the subject comes up: They can’t compete, and they know it.


For how can a real woman—with pores and her own breasts and even sexual needs of her own (let alone with speech that goes beyond “More, more, you big stud!”)—possibly compete with a cybervision of perfection, downloadable and extinguishable at will, who comes, so to speak, utterly submissive and tailored to the consumer’s least specification?

For most of human history, erotic images have been reflections of, or celebrations of, or substitutes for, real naked women. For the first time in human history, the images’ power and allure have supplanted that of real naked women. Today, real naked women are just bad porn.

For two decades, I have watched young women experience the continual “mission creep” of how pornography—and now Internet pornography—has lowered their sense of their own sexual value and their actual sexual value.

When I came of age in the seventies, it was still pretty cool to be able to offer a young man the actual presence of a naked, willing young woman.

There were more young men who wanted to be with naked women than there were naked women on the market.

If there was nothing actively alarming about you, you could get a pretty enthusiastic response by just showing up.

Your boyfriend may have seen Playboy, but hey, you could move, you were warm, you were real.

Thirty years ago, simple lovemaking was considered erotic in the pornography that entered mainstream consciousness: When Behind the Green Door first opened, clumsy, earnest, missionary-position intercourse was still considered to be a huge turn-on.

Well, I am 40, and mine is the last female generation to experience that sense of sexual confidence and security in what we had to offer.

Our younger sisters had to compete with video porn in the eighties and nineties, when intercourse was not hot enough. Now you have to offer—or flirtatiously suggest—the lesbian scene, the ejaculate-in-the-face scene.

Being naked is not enough; you have to be buff, be tan with no tan lines, have the surgically hoisted breasts and the Brazilian bikini wax—just like porn stars.

(In my gym, the 40-year-old women have adult pubic hair; the twentysomethings have all been trimmed and styled.) Pornography is addictive; the baseline gets ratcheted up.

By the new millennium, a vagina—which, by the way, used to have a pretty high “exchange value,” as Marxist economists would say—wasn’t enough; it barely registered on the thrill scale.

All mainstream porn—and certainly the Internet—made routine use of all available female orifices.

The porn loop is de rigueur, no longer outside the pale; starlets in tabloids boast of learning to strip from professionals; the “cool girls” go with guys to the strip clubs, and even ask for lap dances; college girls are expected to tease guys at keg parties with lesbian kisses à la Britney and Madonna.

But does all this sexual imagery in the air mean that sex has been liberated—or is it the case that the relationship between the multi-billion-dollar porn industry, compulsiveness, and sexual appetite has become like the relationship between agribusiness, processed foods, supersize portions, and obesity? If your appetite is stimulated and fed by poor-quality material, it takes more junk to fill you up. People are not closer because of porn but further apart; people are not more turned on in their daily lives but less so.

The young women who talk to me on campuses about the effect of pornography on their intimate lives speak of feeling that they can never measure up, that they can never ask for what they want; and that if they do not offer what porn offers, they cannot expect to hold a guy. The young men talk about what it is like to grow up learning about sex from porn, and how it is not helpful to them in trying to figure out how to be with a real woman. Mostly, when I ask about loneliness, a deep, sad silence descends on audiences of young men and young women alike. They know they are lonely together, even when conjoined, and that this imagery is a big part of that loneliness. What they don’t know is how to get out, how to find each other again erotically, face-to-face.

So Dworkin was right that pornography is compulsive, but she was wrong in thinking it would make men more rapacious. A whole generation of men are less able to connect erotically to women—and ultimately less libidinous.

The reason to turn off the porn might become, to thoughtful people, not a moral one but, in a way, a physical- and emotional-health one; you might want to rethink your constant access to porn in the same way that, if you want to be an athlete, you rethink your smoking. The evidence is in: Greater supply of the stimulant equals diminished capacity.

“For the first time in human history, the images’ power and allure have supplanted that of real naked women. Today, real naked women are just bad porn.”

After all, pornography works in the most basic of ways on the brain: It is Pavlovian. An orgasm is one of the biggest reinforcers imaginable.

If you associate orgasm with your wife, a kiss, a scent, a body, that is what, over time, will turn you on; if you open your focus to an endless stream of ever-more-transgressive images of cybersex slaves, that is what it will take to turn you on. The ubiquity of sexual images does not free eros but dilutes it.

Other cultures know this.

I am not advocating a return to the days of hiding female sexuality, but I am noting that the power and charge of sex are maintained when there is some sacredness to it, when it is not on tap all the time.

In many more traditional cultures, it is not prudery that leads them to discourage men from looking at pornography.

It is, rather, because these cultures understand male sexuality and what it takes to keep men and women turned on to one another over time—to help men, in particular, to, as the Old Testament puts it, “rejoice with the wife of thy youth; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times.” These cultures urge men not to look at porn because they know that a powerful erotic bond between parents is a key element of a strong family.

And feminists have misunderstood many of these prohibitions.

I will never forget a visit I made to Ilana, an old friend who had become an Orthodox Jew in Jerusalem. When I saw her again, she had abandoned her jeans and T-shirts for long skirts and a head scarf. I could not get over it.

Ilana has waist-length, wild and curly golden-blonde hair. “Can’t I even see your hair?” I asked, trying to find my old friend in there. “No,” she demurred quietly. “Only my husband,” she said with a calm sexual confidence, “ever gets to see my hair.”

When she showed me her little house in a settlement on a hill, and I saw the bedroom, draped in Middle Eastern embroideries, that she shares only with her husband—the kids are not allowed—the sexual intensity in the air was archaic, overwhelming.
It was private.

It was a feeling of erotic intensity deeper than any I have ever picked up between secular couples in the liberated West.

And I thought: Our husbands see naked women all day—in Times Square if not on the Net. Her husband never even sees another woman’s hair.

She must feel, I thought, so hot.

Compare that steaminess with a conversation I had at Northwestern, after I had talked about the effect of porn on relationships.

“Why have sex right away?” a boy with tousled hair and Bambi eyes was explaining. “Things are always a little tense and uncomfortable when you just start seeing someone,” he said. “I prefer to have sex right away just to get it over with. You know it’s going to happen anyway, and it gets rid of the tension.”

“Isn’t the tension kind of fun?” I asked. “Doesn’t that also get rid of the mystery?”

“Mystery?” He looked at me blankly. And then, without hesitating, he replied: “I don’t know what you’re talking about. Sex has no mystery.”

Dagens media och pornografi industri förstör barnen ORDENTLIGT. Barnens syn på det naturligt intima förhållandet kan omöjligt komma/skapas inifrån då varje människa hela tiden bombarderas av ideal som inte passar någonstans, mer än i en bok om hur man INTE skall göra.

För att kunna ha ett normalt "sam-liv" så behöver man också veta hur kroppen fungerar, det är få som gör i dag. Man har dock koll på vissa punkter och går på dom som bara den, gärna med en gång och så effektivt som möjligt.

Inställnngen män har till kvinnor, sex och samlevnad har jag hört nog av. - "Jag skall göra si och så med henne, tog henne här o där på så sätt", som om kvinnan endast skulle vara ett verktyg för mannen, som han kan vända på och behandla hur som helst.

Världen är upp och nervänd på många håll, även inom detta område. Det är coolt med en kille som kan "pumpa" i flera timmar, samtidigt bevisar det att han knappt känner nåt. Det är också vanligt att män får ta till "the blue pill" för att kunna fungera.

Finns dock dom som ser det lite annorlunda, i en intervju för många år sedan sade en kvinna, - Ja men, om mannen kommer med en gång så blir jag smickrad, då duger jag ju.

Den femenina sidan hos män är den som behöver stärkas, likaväl kunskapen om kroppen, det finns dock fler problem. Stress, oro, brist på självförtroende, kemikalier mm mm.

För att kunna fungera intimt så behöver man vara frisk och avslappnad, det är dom flesta inte i dag. Istället för att bygga upp livet och förhållandet på ett lugnt, spännande och välskött intimt samliv så räddar man stunden med sex i alla olika former. Varför? Jo, för att om livet inte inbringar tillräckligt med upplevelser så att kroppen får sitt så får man lösa det på annat vis.

När vi mår bra så tillverkar kroppen dopamine och seratonin, kärlek och allrahelst en orgasm pumpar ut dopamin i kroppen på begäran, som bla är ett av kroppens viktigaste nerv-kopplings-vätska.

Är man inte noga med att må bra på ett naturligt och normalt vis så ser man till att göra det på ett annat. Till slut blir det bara en grej, ett verktyg, ett måste... Vi har sedan utvecklat det till ett "ideal-måste", som gör det näst intill omöjligt...

Intressant ämne, också ett av våra större problem i vårt samhälle... Är det inte för mycket så är det för lite, omedvetet levene.

Kan vi inte låta våra medmänniskor göra som de vill i denna frågan? Är lite trött på alla som försöker tvinga sin omgivning till det ena och det andra. Propaganda och kontrollsamhälle kallas det, Ska alla människor formas till identiska individer som gör likadant?

Visst, men synen på det hela förändras i och med jakten efter pengar, för vissa... Reklamen är ett prob, synen på sex i porrfilm ett annat mm. hade alla fått bestämma själva utan vägledning hade det nog sett annorlunda ut. idealet är också ett problem...

må väl

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Varför trött?

Ett samhälle som ännu har kvar lite upprätthet tar hand om det mest ödeläggande som dyker upp. Idag promotas det och har kommandot, se bara här...

Alla är "lika" innerst inne, har samma natur, ursprung. De som ska gå därute och vara emot det är femtekollonnare, och när det försvaras då har den feta damen redan sjungit.

Indianerna tog hand om problem om någon blev evil/besatt/pervo och personen fick vara i "tält" för rening och utdrivning. Gick det inte så var det nog de sälla jaktmarkerna som väntade.

Lite läsning:

Degenerate Nude Art
http://www.pureinsight.org/node/3423

Understanding Life: Compassion is a Type of Energy
http://pureinsight.org/node/5930



... It is living in such an environment that man gradually loses his original human nature, increasingly disbelieving the existence of gods. With the inadequacy of empirical science, man has also lost the human moral values and slid down to the most dangerous situation...
Lecture in Sydney
Li Hongzhi
http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/xnjf1.htm

Bra länkar...

Jag avskyr porr, men inser det behövs till viss del. Idag är väl iofs mycket porr så överdriven och destruktiv, men ungdomar behöver lite sund porr tror jag. Däremot kan det lätt bli ett missbruk hos tittaren.

Nude art är en helt annan femma... Istället för lust så blir det skönhet... Same same but different... Det skickar bättre vibbar att prisa skönhet än att morra lustfyllt... Kan heller inte med porr, dom är vackra nästan allihopa, men vad gör dom? Känns någonstans som att det kan klassas som respektlöst...

Må gott

Fast porr är ganska destruktivt även i nude art form. Modellerna är ofta ganska trasiga själar, vilket gör det till att man egentligen måste ha noll tolerans mot porr.

Tänkte mer att sexet skulle hållas utanför... Nude art handlar bara om kroppen... Typ: http://www.artdoxa.com/files/images/a ... e3e93379626dca7d66292.jpg

Eller: http://www.artdoxa.com/files/images/a ... 3e93379626dca7d66292.jpeg

Lämnar lite åt fantasin...

Jag tror att det intima livet skall hållas öppet på så vis att man inte lägger ut grunder för hur det skall genomföras, endast hur kroppen fungerar. Sen är det upp till var och en hur man använder kroppen...

Jag menar så också. Att kvinnliga nakenmodeller ofta är trasiga själar som söker bekräftelse på en uppväxt de inte varit i fokus, eller för att de varit utsatta.

Typ... har sett ett gäng dokumentärer som berättar samma sak... modeller och andra säger till yngre som precis börjat eller är på väg, gör det inte...

Jag skulle vilja ta det lite längre och säga att dom flesta inom porrindustrin är tankestyrda sexslavar framtagna av cia.

Typ... Gott om stålar i porr också... Skapar också våldtäktsmän och annat skit...

europa har varit sexuellt förtryckt sen kyrkan tog över och alienerade det mest naturliga i mänskligt beteende till något syndigt.

och nej sex är inte lika med kärlek.

Sex är heller inte samma sak som porr.... Visst har kyrkan messat till mycket, vansinnigt mycket skulle jag vilja påstå. Som Gandhi sade, Jag tycker om kristendomen men ogillar kristna...

Jag tror att hatet mot mycket grundar sig i brist på kontroll, kan man inte själv kontrollera sprit till ex, så säger man lätt, sprit e skit. Samma sak med andra naturliga droger etc.

Lagom e bäst...

Alan Watts om kyrkans påverkan. Intressant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCWVS_vC6A

Tackar för länken!!!

As far as the future education is concerned, we have to correct the errors in education first. Bad education ruins people. The current flowing in society is like a big vat of dye. People who associate with good people tend to become good, while those who associate with bad people tend to become bad. Nowadays, bad trends in society, warped culture, legitimized advocacies of anti-orthodox, anti-moral, and evil teachings infuse people with violence, pornography, mind games, and materialism. In this way the human spirit is constantly eroded and human beings become warped.
http://pureinsight.org/node/785

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Devil music and the lure of pornography interfere with people's minds
and bring calamity to the nation and people. A wise person must
refuse the seductions of such devil music and
pornography.

http://pureinsight.org/node/4467

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As a 64 year old Western practitioner I must say that I thoroughly agree with Mr. Lee's insights. In my lifetime I have witnessed the most appalling degeneration of the English language in the United States. Not only is slang used to invert and confuse the traditional meanings of words, but also words that used to be too filthy for ordinary people to even use are routinely heard everywhere we go. Walking by people on the street, in the grocery store, at the service station or in the mall, it seems that almost no one can carry on a conversation without filthy language and slang. I'm sure that most of the young people who are using this degenerated language have no idea how terrible it sounds. Since all their peers speak the same way, they consider it "normal".
Teacher says, "A human is just like a container. What he is filled with is exactly what he is. What he can see through his eyes and hear through his ears are all violence, pornography, and intrigue against each other in literary works, and strive for personal gain, money worship, other manifestations of demonic nature, etc. in realistic society. As what he is filled with are all these things, such a person is really bad indeed no matter how he behaves. People's actions are governed by their thoughts. What sort of things can a person possibly do with a mind full of such things?"("Melting into the Law", Essentials for Further Advancement)
http://pureinsight.org/node/957

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For the last several decades, not only have the harmony between humans and nature been destroyed, but also the honest relationships between people have been ruined during the many political movements and Great Cultural Revolution. What is in their place is to play it safe. For the last ten to twenty years, people pursue profits and do not care about others and do things to harm others. In such a society, people eagerly
look for quick success and instant benefits. They fabricate faulty
things and poisonous foods. Inundation with pornography and violence become unavoidable.
http://pureinsight.org/node/4964

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http://pureinsight.org/node/1005

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Intressant åsikt, BESKRIV sund PORR i förhållande till att den är då Prostitution aka Slaveri... nyficken ; )

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Jo mycket sant i den du säger

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Med "sund" porr menar jag sådant nyfikna kan titta på som inte förstör dom, utan mer är informativt. Hur två människor har sex med varandra, eller hur en tjej visar upp sin kropp och sitt kön för de nyfikna. Men porr kan knappast vara sunt. Modellerna är oftast offer med en komplicerad problematik. Nyfiken stillas av människor som mår dåligt och utnyttjas.

Även prostitution försvarar ju vissa med att det är enda alternativet för en del handikappade eller socialt missanpassade. Vad hände med sympatiknull?

Prostitution är inte slaveri. Det Bill Deberg inledde artikeln med visar på vad ordet PROBABLY kommer ifrån. Jag har hört att ordet hora härstammar från timmme. (hour, ur , osv) Någon vars tjänster man köper för en timme.

En hora som inte var slav hade säkert ett annat namn.

När man använder fel ord ofta ett grövre ord för att hävda någon politiks, religös eller philosofisk ide så gör man mer skada än nytta.

Tänk på det kvinnor och män som är protituerade, tror du att dom vill ha ett likamed tecken mellan dom själva och slavar. En slav har ju typ samma värde som en hund.

wavemaster när sympatiknullade du en handikappad sist?