The issue though lies on the surface, but it is rooted much deeper than the mere sex. This does not mean that he for commercial purposes is not used. Accurate data are difficult to obtain, but in 2009 a dominant position in the American economy took the film industry, surpassing the niche professional sports and live music combined. In the West and among Teens it stopped being something out of the ordinary, because smart phones offer instant and ubiquitous access to it. The gaming industry is probably larger, but it is obvious that if, while online, young people are not playing with friends, the likelihood is high that they will “play” with themselves. An estimated 30% of Internet content is pornographic, and it is for the most part the same company, Mindgeek.
Some deny the negative impact this industry, but it would make it absolutely unique phenomenon in human culture — but it is not. From a business point of view, its creators divided, obviously, into winners and losers, and the latter often lose too much. But what about consumers? Conservatives typically argue that the deleterious impact on the psyche is viewing certain scenes.
American writer Rod Dreher writes: “We are conducting a radical experiment, what history has never seen, because it was not possible. What will happen to people and society if the images — moving images — the most bizarre and violent sexual acts you can imagine, becomes instantly available to anyone, anywhere, anytime? How will this affect our brains, our minds and our hearts? What will it do to us as people?”
Being a conservative Christian, under the influence of Catholic moral theology, Dreher believes that there are actions which in themselves are unacceptable, irrespective of motive and intent are made. I this view is not shared. It seems to me that the wrongness of porn is not in action but in attitude. Adults on a voluntary agreement can do anything you want, although the concepts of maturity and consent do not have clear boundaries, and they are easy to distort. Something that can be forced 15-year-old cannot be justified by pretending that they are adults or do it voluntarily. And even if so, we are talking about pressure and exploitation, and it is wrong. And this kind of bullying are inextricably linked with porn.
Pornography is a world of fulfillment of desires; but the fallacy of the belief that every desire can be satisfied, much more important than the wrongness of any particular desire. The porn industry is built on the principle of “customer above all”. His desires paramount importance that predictably leads to significant damages for the creators of porn and for those they sell. But the damage is still the consumers who offer short-term stay in the world of fulfillment of desires. Some want to “move” there. And many others will demand the right of free movement. This would have a devastating and corrosive effect on society, even if it was limited to only one sex, but it’s certainly not the case.
Panificatie all areas and aspects of life is the business model of commercial television and living at the expense of Internet advertising. And it’s not just about sex. Fantasies of control, domination and immediate satisfaction of desires became the ideal of all commercial transactions. This is what it promises almost every is. A well-organized and extremely convenient world of online shopping, much closer to pornography than offline shopping and negotiations.
It is the policy pornification gave us Donald trump: he has established himself as the public leader through a reality show, in which she played the role of an all-powerful despot, whose whim was the law. The purpose of reality television and advertising in General is to undermine our instincts about reality in the real world, but it is at least as damaging as pornography, and closely connected with it.
Like porn, it whets the appetite, which is hard to satisfy because of its continuous feeding our illusions. Therein lies the danger of perception of fantasy as mere solace for the lonely people that the real and level-headed people will never hurt. Is your dissatisfaction with sexual or political (both personal), pornographic fantasies offer unrealizable satisfaction. In connection with what to replace the real life can not.
Andrew brown writes on religion. The last of the written books, “Fishing in Utopia”, is a memoir about his life in Sweden. In 2009, he received the Orwellian award.
