I stopped watching porn, and I’d like to say that the primary reason behind this was because of the obvious and blatantly abusive nature of the porn industry, but it wasn’t, it was because I saw a study which showed the way in which porn desensitises the brain to the actual reality of what sex is. After reading this particular study I thought something along the lines of ‘oh well fuck that then, I better not watch it again else I’ll end up losing my mind by the time I‘m 30.’
I already knew that the overwhelming majority of porn was pretty much ridiculously over-exaggerated fantasy sex which doesn’t occur in normal life (or very rarely occurs, in any case) and that the women, and men, employed in the porn industry were taken advantage of and abused, but it never stopped me watching it. Now that I’ve taken a step back from it I can truly see how harmful and damaging porn is to the actors and actresses involved, and also the multitude of damaging effects that pornography has on society as a whole.
People start watching pornography at a very early age nowadays, thanks to the phenomenally easy access that the internet provides. The average age that a boy will view porn is now eleven years old. I’m not in favour of putting statistics into my blogs if I’m honest, as I want everything that I write to essentially be my views on the topics which I feel strongly about, but I did quite a bit of research for this one, which I have used to structure parts of this blog. I was quite taken aback by some of the things that I found out, but I have to say, I wasn’t overly shocked by any of it.
Porn depicts women as sex objects, nothing more than a pair of tits and a few holes, but you knew that already. The gratuitous sexual acts that these women have to perform is pretty hard to imagine, or at least they would be if they weren’t becoming commonplace in mainstream porn. Things that you would consider to be pretty filthy acts to undertake in bed with your Wife/girlfriend/stranger are pretty tame when it comes to the world of porn. Things like anal and deepthroating, or both of those things in that order, are starting to become ‘standard’ practices in porn. As men become more and more desensitised and used to these things, they’re starting to look for dirtier and more depraved videos and images to satisfy their habit, and their dicks, and the porn industry is answering their calls.
Imagine what it’s like to go into work and your boss says ‘oh right well today what we’re going to do is have about five guys fuck you in the arse and then you’ll have to suck them all off and take a few loads in the eye, and then we’ll break for lunch.’ If I’m honest, I could say something ten times worse than that, but I think that’ll do to get my point across. I can’t really begin to imagine what it’d be like to be a woman in the porn industry, I think you literally would have to be one to have any idea. I do know that a huge amount of these women turn to drugs and alcohol in an attempt to make things ‘better’ for themselves, and when that’s the case you know something’s systematically wrong with the whole thing. I also know that a great deal of porn stars, both male and female, have committed suicide.
The reason why these women willingly let themselves be abused, and why the men give their days up for endless, meaningless fucking is for money. One of the things I hate most in the world. It seems that anyone will do anything when you throw in a pound (or dollar) sign and a few numbers after it. Money is the thing which makes people completely abandon their morals and ethics in pursuit of a new watch or a better, faster car or a bigger house, but is it all really worth it when they are effectively destroying themselves by being puppets in something as horrible and destructive as the porn industry? The psychological and physical effects of the industry must stay with porn stars for countless years after they retire, or perhaps for as long as they live, which may not be that long if they contract an incurable sexually transmitted diseases, such as AIDS, which some porn stars have died of in the past. I don’t know whether or not they contracted these diseases whilst filming porn, as they no doubt had sex outside of ’work’ too, but it stands a good chance.
I imagine that the whole thing can be very alluring to a naïve girl of eighteen. Fly out to California and get paid thousands of dollars to get fucked, it can’t be that bad, right? Well, I cant imagine that she’s thinking that when she’s got three cocks inside her simultaneously and she’s got to swallow the contents of them in about two minutes time. I imagine that the actors and actresses involved become dependant on the lifestyle and hooked on drugs and drink, and so they need the lucrative wage on offer in order to sustain their very expensive habit. I can’t be completely sure because I’m not involved in the industry, but I’d imagine that that’s how a lot of these women end up. I can’t envisage many more lifestyles which are worse than getting brutally fucked and abused to fund a habit which is slowly killing you.
Aside from the horrific effects that porn has on the people directly involved in it, it also has far reaching effects across the whole of society, on a worldwide scale. If boys as young as eleven are viewing hardcore porn, then surely they will start to expect their girlfriends to be up for doing the things that they regularly view online when they become sexually active, whatever age that may be at. I would also imagine that some boys forcefully ‘convince’ their girlfriends into doing things that they have seen in porn, until they give in, against their best wishes. I also think that porn leads to violence against women in modern day society, because a lot of the practices involved in hardcore porn are violent and very aggressive and there are also simulated rape scenes online, which can’t be a great influence on the mind of anyone, let alone a boy in his early teens.
I believe that the pornography industry will always thrive and most likely grow, and that porn will always be a commonplace thing in society, because people will always give into their carnal desires and indulge in it. As long as this keeps happening these women will continually be abused, and will let themselves be abused for the financial rewards that the porn industry offers, regardless of the state in which it leaves their minds and bodies. Some porn stars get out early, in the case of Sasha Grey, for example, who filmed her last pornographic movie at the age of 21. However, a great majority of them do not escape and instead end up in a world of drug addiction, prostitution and even end up taking their own lives. You make up your own minds as to whether the porn industry is worthwhile.
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