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When I first came to FDS, I was quite taken back by the blatant opposition to porn. Growing up with quite liberal values I never questioned the matter in depth. However, having educated myself more I am confused on how I could ever think that porn was okay.
While a lot has been spoken about the industry itself, I was also interested in psychological impact of porn consumption. I came across with this excerpt by C.S. Lewis so decided to share it here. Especially, the part where he says that it becomes a medium through which he increasingly adores himself - screams the evolutioning SCROTE to me.
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"For me the real evil of masturbation would be that it takes an appetite which, in lawful use, leads the individual out of himself to complete (and correct) his own personality in that of another (and finally in children and even grandchildren) and turns it back; sends the man back into the prison of himself, there to keep a harem of imaginary brides.
"And this harem, once admitted, works against his ever getting out and really uniting with a real woman.
"For the harem is always accessible, always subservient, calls for no sacrifices or adjustments, and can be endowed with erotic and psychological attractions which no woman can rival.
"Among those shadowy brides he is always adored, always the perfect lover; no demand is made on his unselfishness, no mortification ever imposed on his vanity.
"In the end, they become merely the medium through which he increasingly adores himself…After all, almost the main work of life is to come out of our selves, out of the little dark prison we are all born in. Masturbation is to be avoided as all things are to be avoided which ****** this process. The danger is that of coming to love the prison.
"For the harem is always accessible, always subservient, calls for no sacrifices or adjustments, and can be endowed with erotic and psychological attractions which no woman can rival." This is so true! These scrotes are no longer looking for real women. They're looking for fantasy creatures that exist only to serve them and their increasingly perverted desires. It's the same concept behind OF, prostitution, sex dolls etc. It's all centred around devaluing and objectifying women. It's about pleasing men in the most base, selfish way and it encourages them to view women as objects, rather than human beings of equal standing.
Men are supposed to pursue women. Porn encourages men to sit back and think they are the prize, waiting for women to fight over them. It makes them lazy in every aspect of their lives. I really do think porn symbolises devolution in men.
I find the part where they go out and abuse women the worst. Masturbating is not bad, porn and objectification is bad. A lot of them look for real women and If they can't get them they pay for rape. Porn affects every women. Because our degradation is look upon as something normal and as good sex. Porn is never enough. They need real abuse.
I think porn makes men hate women even more than they already do bc they expect us to be like the women in porn when they interact with us. Once their empathy is triggered (if they have any) when we act as individuals with our own choices or mention pain they're causing us they resent us for not living up to their pump and dump porn fantasy.
He's definitely calling out coomers and he's right to do so. Frankly I don't see any scrotery in his explanation of how pornography is a trapping. I don't interpret him as saying that men will go an abuse women irl if they don't have the mental prison/fantasy of pornography, but rather that men content in that internal prison see no need to engage with women outside their internal fantasy. That those men enjoying their pornography induced prison will never be capable of fully engaging with a woman because they would rather fantasize than acknowledge women's personality/personhood. Tbh masturbation IS harmful if it becomes obsessive/addictive. Trying to qualify his stance that masturbation is a good thing is purposely overlooking his point. "Not all masturbation" is a dumb argument when coomer men have been a constant problem in society since forever and are the main reason masturbation gets any flack at all.
"and can be endowed with erotic and psychological attractions which no woman can rival." This reminds me of men "joking" that no woman can compete with their hentai character or no woman will ever compare to their anime characters. Or "hentai is life!" They want a real woman (mommy/therapist/maid/person they have no real interest in who gave them the self esteem that they can get a girlfriend), but they use dolls, figurines, posters, other merchandise, anime porn to satisfy their real desires because they no longer have desire for real woman or view real woman as inferior. These men are not salvageable. Please don't ever have kids with men who like hentai or "jailbait" things. Please don't ever marry them if you're a single mom. They are pedos, ebephiles, whatever. Just don't let them arounds kids, especially minors. Those guys who only call anime highschool girls their ideal woman? Yeah those. I know it's not possible, but if it were possible they would leave you to be with a cartoon character who's a perpetual child with a babyface. I mean it's not like they'll leave you to be with Jessica rabbit (which is not good either but atleast she seems grown and mature). Yes, many girls also say real men will never compare to anime characters but it's because of the Unconditional love, dedication, commitment, touching words that those characters tell their love interests. We're talking about personality more than beauty.
I’m glad many are waking up to the evils of porn. But I hesitate when porn is conflated with masturbation which by itself is not an abnormal or depraved human behavior. Although porn compels males to masturbate to unhealthy extents which can result in physical and mental harm to themselves and others.
This is brilliant and prior to porn...he's rolling over in his grave now!