Rick Santorum wants to take away your porn too.

[Deleted03]

I feel like people who have an "addiction" to porn, and families that end up "suffuring" from porn, would suffer whether porn was there or not. If you're a grown man (or woman) and can,t make the difference between movies and reality, then porn is just an outlet of the fact that you are disturbed (ie: you do not accept that your partner does not want anal, or BDSM, or what have you).

If a spouse do not like the other spouse to masturbate or view porn because being a couple means taking care of ALL the needs of the partner, then my guess is there is disagreement on what being a couple means, and there are sexual issues that go beyond the existence of porn.

Now if Frothy was saying he's in favor of a sustainable porn industry where people are not drugged to film scenes, where condoms are used systematically, and where everyone is fairly remunerated, then I'd be all for it, but yeah it's Santorum and I can't assume he has a brain.

[hapamama]

My late father had an extensive collection of porn magazines, mostly the ones with the stories. He was also quite happily married to my mother for 38 years. He told me that the trouble with porn comes when you forget that it's fantasy, and when it's replacing sex rather than serving as something to titillate your imagination. My mom never had a problem with Dad reading it, and sometimes shared it with him.

IMO, there's not a huge difference between the kind of porn Dad was looking at and Harlequin Romance novels these days...

[Visionoyahweh]

*hangs head in shame* Does it make it better or worse if I load that man-on-man lovin' with the bunch of kinks?

Yes. I think gays need to start making sweatervest fetish porn. Let's take the fight to Santorum!

the trouble with porn comes when you forget that it's fantasy, and when it's replacing sex rather than serving as something to titillate your imagination.

QFT. This is the lesson that both sex addicts and anti-porn crusaders haven't learned.

[longskirtlotsakids]

To liven things up: You know how it is common these days to use the term porn on non-sexjal things? IE, "Food porn" to denote highly yummy and delicious looking food. 'Car Porn to denote fancy high dollar automobiles...

My son came up to my husband after dinner, clapped him on the back and said "het Dad, what kinda porn do you like?"

My husband turned all shades of purple and I could see a very strong reaction coming. I ceased all banter and asked Boy very seriously:. "Boy, do you know what porn is?" He looked at me and said "Um,,,,not really..." I said "Porn is short for pornography. Pornography is pictures and movies of people baing naked and having sex."

Poor kid turned all kinds of embarassed and could not get out of there fast enough. He was thinking it was something else entirely, apparently.

SO yeah, Frothorific. THere you go. A househoid with an atheist feminist mom and MY 11 year old didn't even know what porn is, let alone experience it.

[smittykins]

I'll second the "pry from my cold dead hands"... I've been single for 5 years. Girl needs a little fun now and then....

Widowed almost seven here...In addition to the occasional visit to literotica.com, I also like to write my own porn. Try to take *that* from me, Frothy-boy! :twisted:

[DistantStar]

After my dad's death my mom and I ended up being the ones clearing out his apartment (they'd gotten divorced several years prior). I was the one in the closet who found his porn stash; this was in 1993, so we're talking magazines. I don't remember specifically which ones, but I do remember my mom's reaction clearly..."He was a man, you know." No shock, no horror, just...well, he was human. And male. And single. So his having porn mags was just a fact of life. (This might sound weird but I honestly hope he enjoyed them. Even though...ew.)

I think it seems worse these days because the internet makes it so much easier to find. You have a weird creepy fetish? No problem. I'm sure it was a lot harder to find fringe stuff in the pre-internet days unless you lived in a large enough city that there was a shop that carried it all.

If I think about Santorum too hard I tend to get Very Angry, but he can just stay the fuck out of my sex life. Even though he'd probably approve of 95% of it, it's none of his business. None at all. I'd say he can go fuck himself, but he'd probably enjoy that.

[tropaka]

I always think of porn nowadays like this...it used to be in print and in a stack under a bed/in a garage, now it's on line. When I was about 10 or so, the neighbour kids and I would go through my 16/18 y/o brothers' collections (under the bed, selections from playboy. penthouse, huslter, club - could never understand why women would okay the "beaver shots" submissions to Hustler, but loved the fake Penthouse Forum stuff). My neighbours, whose Dad was the town doctor, would always pull out their Dad's collections of Playboy for viewing.

When porn becomes an obsession/addiction and interferes with your relationships or regular life, it'a an issue, and I do have a problem with women being forced to take part in sex work - but it's always been around in some for, so Santorum going on how it's pandemic now is full of shit.

[lilah]

Between rick's stance on homosexual rights, womens rights and now porn I really think he'd propose a ban on non procreative sex if he was elected. He just is that nuts.