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Social Media Pushing the Porn Agenda.

Discussion in 'Porn Addiction' started by Relationship Rebooter, Dec 31, 2018.

  1. Relationship Rebooter

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    There recently was a blog post on Snapchat by the Account “Brother”.

    -They said there was no direct link to Porn and ED
    -They claimed it increases focus
    -They even said it isn’t addictive in anway.
    -They claimed it makes you appreciate the opposite sex.
    I don’t get why media pushes porns agenda and denies the fact there are any negative effects. It makes you objectify the opposite sex.

    Does anyone know why denying the side effects are pushed by blogs? What is there to gain.
     
  2. countitjoy5

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    It's the doctrine of the Illuminati - you see it everywhere. They are the useful idiots pushing their doctrine without knowing it.
     
  3. The dude's lying. I saw something similar on Snapchat about NoFap three months ago. It was an article talking about how It's BS and nonsense. Increases focus? How? What science is he using?
     
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  4. Appreciate the opposite sex, not addictive, and doesn't cause ED? No NO NO. Total nonsense. It's misogynistic, more addicting than hardcore drugs and causes ED. The truth.
     
  5. for any subject you will always have multiple sides, some people say porn is healthy and normal, some say it is sinful and destructive, i find it best to just leave it be, i have a thread called personality types, even tho i know they are real and they make perfect sense, there are still lots of people saying its a load of shit, just find likeminded people and stick with them, let the other people do there thing, i started going crazy trying to prove to the people it is real but i realized its pointless, some people just will never see your side of things.
     
  6. Does anyone know why denying the side effects are pushed by blogs? What is there to gain.[/QUOTE]
    I dunno. Good question. What is there to gain?
     
  7. i would say the alcohol companies are
     
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  8. Far be it for me to tell someone else what to believe, I'm largely with @littlekegger, trying to convince people of 1 thing or another is an exercise in futility. If the person is not open minded and willing to question their bias and reality, it won't happen for them. However i do think posing open ended questions can help people begin searching for answers themselves.

    Who gains from a weakened, feeble US man that has no willpower? Who is so distracted and numbed out they are too lazy to fight corruption or abuse of power.
    Why are the morals that establish harmony, community, healthiness and happiness actively attacked and the love of greed, selfishness, and vanity are put on a pedestal?
    Where does the money come from to promote these ideas and agenda's?
    Are they just purely, accidental? Coincidental? Is the advertising and media industry a multi-billion dollar market.. by chance?
    What happens to a nation when they believe what is bad is good, and vis-versa?

    I don't subscribe to chance, or accident or luck. People make their luck, people take their chances, there is no accidents. So why is denying the side effects being pushed by blogs, tv, radio, magazines, & the internet as a whole?
    Who benefits from that?
    I can tell you this, agenda's are in place for all of these things. A weak, softened man is a docile man. Easy to control.
     
  9. Ridley

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    I'm gonna go ahead and try to give what I believe to be the most rational explanation for it. No conspiracy theories, just a carefully-thought-out argument.

    The first and, perhaps, most relevant point to be aware of is that media sites (Facebook, SnapChat, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, etc.) make a huge profit when lots of people view advertisements hosted by their services. If you click on a blog post by SnapChat, you will likely be exposed to an advertisement and SnapChat will make money. Therefore, these media companies make money by getting you to click on their articles, blogs, posts, videos, and images. I wish these companies would adopt a more ethical business model that was more consumer-friendly, but now I'm getting off-topic.

    Now that we understand that these companies make money by getting you to click on their content, we also understand that the way for them to make the most money is to produce content that is the most likely to be clicked on. Content about pornography (really any sexual content whatsoever) easily falls under that category. A large percentage of the population already uses porn. It's extremely popular. I don't think there's anything controversial about that fact. A lot of people like it. On the other hand, not a lot of people really like to talk about their porn usage. It's not something you bring up at the office, it's not something you talk about during Thanksgiving dinner, it's not a good ice-breaker on a date. In other words, porn is an extremely popular, yet still sort-of taboo, subject matter. Subject matters that are extremely popular, yet still taboo, are interesting to people. They're interesting enough that media about the subject matter, along with a flashy title, will grab a lot of people's attention and get them to click on the article / video / image (hell, it worked on you, considering you clicked on this blog post you're describing). People are really interested in sex, so these media companies make (or simply release) articles about porn and sex, consumers click on them, and the company makes a profit. It's as simple as that.

    I'm not ready to endorse some of the conspiracy theories brought up in this thread. I don't have any evidence that the porn industry is colluding with SnapChat behind closed doors to produce pro-pornography content. Such collusion is possible, and it is a believable-sounding explanation for why you might be seeing pro-porn content on these websites, but the possibility and believability of such a hypothesis is not evidence in favor of its truth. Besides, I don't even think such a conspiracy would be necessary in order for us to see porn-related content on these media sites. It's probably not even a conspiracy. It might just be that someone who makes their living in the porn industry wrote that article (or hired someone to write it), and then paid SnapChat to display the article for a fixed amount of time. Therefore, I think the fact that people are really interested in porn and sex, along with the fact that these media companies want to make as much money as possible, is enough for us to explain the pro-porn articles you're seeing.

    Money. As with many of the problems we face as a society, it all boils down to the worship of the almighty dollar.
     
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  10. Ridley

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    I agree with this idea. Who cares what some clickbait shit article on SnapChat says? It doesn't matter what the author says about porn. The fact of the matter is that porn is a problem for you (at least, I assume so... Don't know why you'd be here if it wasn't). You don't need the approval of an article to validate the condition you're in. The greatest truth comes from within.
     
  11. aerokus

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    I saw this article too.

    I know it's just an article on Snapchat but the problem I have is this.
    When I was in my mid-teens and fapping 4/5 times a day I googled multiple times whether or not this and porn was harmful to me or not.
    Now, I know that for most men, fapping and porn never become an addictive problem. But I was most definitely exhibiting signs of developing a serious addiction.
    What did the internet say though? That fapping was good and that porn was good. Lo and behold, I have sex for the first time and all that fapping and porn has caused the loss of any sensation in my dick. And now I'm so addicted I can't stop either.

    I guess things are different now, as that was like 7 years ago and NoFap has really emerged since then. But it's frustrating when this misinformation is peddled around the internet.
    PMO so very obviously causes ED. It fucking obviously is addictive. There is a community of hundreds of thousands of people dealing with this and yet doctors and the mainstream still will not accept that it is a thing. The result? A whole new generation of young guys, even more than all the porn addicts before them combined, are going to be suffering at the hands of PMO addiction. And when they go on Snapchat, the internet's going to be telling them "keep masturbating, keep watching porn, it's good for you". This issue is going to get so much worse before it gets better.
     
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  12. Relationship Rebooter

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    I’m not rationalizing my problem in any way. I know and have been addressing and fighting it for over a year. I know how disgusting it is. It just makes me kind of concerned that in modern day schools and institutions push abstinence on the younger generation and mainstream media pushes “healthy masterbation and porn usage” as normal.
     
  13. Ridley

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    No, no... I think you misinterpreted what I was saying. I didn't mean to make you feel bad about your problem, and it wasn't my intention to point out how "disgusting" it is. I'm just saying that we shouldn't let some pro-porn article make us doubt our own experiences with porn. My comment wasn't really directed at you specifically (though I used the word "you"), but rather at each member of the community who might read my comment.
     
  14. Gotham Outlaw

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    If social media companies side with porn they'll get more money.
     
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  15. Nugget9

    Nugget9 Fapstronaut

    Money is the problem today in most modern cultures, it is needed in every facet of existence. Prices of things should not be what they are but greed has gotten to most people and I believe people are blind to this. They "deserve" to make tons of money doing whatever they do, it doesn't matter. This will never change and it will be the fall of the US and the world economies by the deficits being so large, take the money now and pay it off probably never, let the interest grow. No politicians like to talk about it because they will not be re-elected. It is taboo, yet I believe it is more important than a border wall and most other crap that is on their agenda. We'll see what happens but I believe it will come to fruition within 12 years, and it will be bad, possibly war. I hope not, but it is what I see and believe what will happen with our future.
     
  16. jwitcher

    jwitcher Fapstronaut

    I do not use social media, but the whole idea of pushing porn into people's lives is just utterly disgusting. I'm tired of people claiming "M is fine, O is fine, heck, PMO is great" while I'm like you have no idea how screwed up you can become from PMO and the many health issues you can get, not to mention the fact you start objectifying women or even start objectifing your SO (if you are in a relationship). Which is very, very dangerous.
     
  17. Relationship Rebooter

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    That’s what I’m saying it’s scary, at least for us who know we can look at it throw that idea out of the window, however for the younger generation still so impressionable can be fooled
     

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