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I think the times are getting worse where pornography and sex are rampant. I'm not too worried about the impact on adults. However, it is now widespread among teenagers and even children under age. All this will definitely have a negative impact on the young people who bear the responsibility of developing the country but does the impact just stop there? Do you think if it also has an impact on the economy, morals, or even threatens human civilization like what is happening in Japan today.And how to overcome it

Pornography is a stark reality, revealing our animal natures stripped of the fashions of a civil society. It is perhaps good that it is played out to remind us we are part of the animal world. Our natures, poured into the mold of civilized society, do not always keep their intended shape. Procreation is involuntary, not necessarily an intellectual decision; it is the will of the species and an overpowering force invested in the continuation of the species. Much of the conditioning of the population denies our animal nature and paints our natures with romantic notions of what is going on. The baseness and power of sexual reality will ensure the color beneath will always show through. That said, this blatant expression of nature must be controlled if society is to remain civil. What is natural is not always good. Lust is Schopenhauer's blind will of the species to survive and procreate.

Pornography fragments sexuality by resorting it to pure image.

Promiscuity fragments sexuality by dispersing sexual energy across many people so that a person loses there attentive capacity and responsibility to the person they are transferring energy with as promiscuity blinds people emotionally.

Both cross over in effect.

The dating culture has caused more harm than good. Pornography is just the logical extension of it. Sex has been reduced to a dopamine fix and entertainment so as to avoid the difficulties of life by means of being a coping mechanism rather than means of growth.

People don't engage in porn or promiscuity out of joy, they do it out of in grown despair over existence...generally.

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 11, 2025 1:57 am Pornography fragments sexuality by resorting it to pure image.

Promiscuity fragments sexuality by dispersing sexual energy across many people so that a person loses there attentive capacity and responsibility to the person they are transferring energy with as promiscuity blinds people emotionally.

Lust is the blind drive of procreation; it is the will of the species operating the individual organism to survive and procreate.

Both cross over in effect.

The dating culture has caused more harm than good. Pornography is just the logical extension of it. Sex has been reduced to a dopamine fix and entertainment so as to avoid the difficulties of life by means of being a coping mechanism rather than a means of growth.
People don't engage in porn or promiscuity out of joy, they do it out of in grown despair over existence...generally. [/quote]

The performance of porn is to take the blind will's sexual drive down to the level of stark lust, devoid of all human sensitivity, procreation at the animal level.

popeye1945 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 11, 2025 11:32 am

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 11, 2025 1:57 am Pornography fragments sexuality by resorting it to pure image.

Promiscuity fragments sexuality by dispersing sexual energy across many people so that a person loses there attentive capacity and responsibility to the person they are transferring energy with as promiscuity blinds people emotionally.

Lust is the blind drive of procreation; it is the will of the species operating the individual organism to survive and procreate.

Both cross over in effect.

The dating culture has caused more harm than good. Pornography is just the logical extension of it. Sex has been reduced to a dopamine fix and entertainment so as to avoid the difficulties of life by means of being a coping mechanism rather than a means of growth.
People don't engage in porn or promiscuity out of joy, they do it out of in grown despair over existence...generally.

The performance of porn is to take the blind will's sexual drive down to the level of stark lust, devoid of all human sensitivity, procreation at the animal level.
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True but I think it even warps the natural procreative drive given some of it is not even natural.