[OT] Is current level of porn consumption just a phase?

It will persist, unless the loony left or religious right pass laws to shut it down. But as long as it's available, I don't see any change

It'll persist as long as there is easy access (and lots of free web porn).

Why would it decline? It's almost analogous to saying sexual desire will decline in society.

You didn't list any facts about the current level of porn consumption. Is it ascending or declining relative to the past?

I don't think stats regarding consumption on its own are very telling.

I'm more interested in how porn affects the way people view sex now, and how its replaced sex for some people. Plus porn addiction....

CC would like this thread...

The free tube sites contribute strongly to the porn consumption boom, especially among women. There's a huge gap between free and paying a dollar a month for content.

It's also become trivial for amateurs to create content.

@FTS

To and your question:

Q: Do you think the current level of porn consumption in the US is just a phase that the culture is going through, or do you think porn, and it’s current level of consumption, will persist for a very long time?

A: if we define a phase as: “a distinct period or stage in a series of events or a process of change or development.”

I think the current level of consumption of, paid and unpaid, porn will continue changing as it has through human history.

If we consider the definition of pornography as the depiction of erotic behavior (as in movies. pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement, it has been around since the humans were able to paint and write.

Erotic art was at times in human history considered beautiful and even holly. It is our Puritanical American culture that has labeled dirty, forbidden, bad etc. and at the same time our capitalist economy to want to profit from it.

The porn industry is now working as a money laundering front, the little amount of porn (movies) produced now is getting more extreme, shocking trying to survive, catering to an audience that wants that type of content and is willing to pay for it.

At the same time pay sites with live girls (cyber sex) are still surviving, because some consumers still want some label of human connection.

Pornhub claims that:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.kansasc…

“In 2017 alone, more than 595,000 hours of pornography was uploaded for viewing on the site — the equivalent of 68 years.”

Louis CK in an interview joked;

“We don't need to keep making porn. There's enough porn. There's so much porn....a newborn baby could start watching pornography "in alphabetical order" right out of the womb and still not be through "the anal section" by the time he is 50”

The human species is living in interesting times, we don’t know what is going to happen next.

But there is one sure thing, we are going to pay taxes (if they catch us) and die.

“I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfactionq in all their toil...”

That is why I am on a quest for my Holy Grail:

OTC with a DS with GFE and PSE, with NSA that we both walk away happy, believing it was a Fair Trade and a win win experience.

@CJ

Yea, I know porn has different forms and there was erotic art even in ancient times. I was referring to any medium that is at least as graphic/stimulating as video (e.g. SD video, HD video, virtual reality, etc.)

My thoughts are more along the lines of what Icey wrote, about how it affects people and their views about sex. How it affects culture, birthrates, etc. If there is ever some kind of crisis that is caused, at least in part, by pornography consumption, then I wonder if porn might someday be outlawed. (Isn't it already illegal in China?)

I will likely join you on a similar quest for my own Holy Grail, similar to yours. Although, that probably won't be for some time. I like keeping my $$$, at least for now. Especially while Bitcoin is in a bull market...

P.S. Louis CK is hilarious. I hope he makes a new special soon.

@FTS

If you have time watch the Frontline documentary “American Porn” I think is very interesting and informative.

In a segment they talk about the first Hustler store in Sunset Blvd; how Larry Flynn and his daughter were having lunch with the architect that was designing the store and his wife, was there and was so embarrassed, nervous and the architect tells her “Relax it is just sex”. That became the tag line for the store, and they made the store very open like a fancy boutique, unlike the traditional porn stores.

Things will change in unpredictable ways, some will be seeing as good or bad depending what side you are in.

I for example see that expectation are unrealistic, men want sex and expect women to behave like pornstars  and women want romance and sometimes large penis like in the Romantic movies and porn movies. A recipe for unhappiness and depression for having unrealistic expectations.

But who knows maybe if porn becomes more mainstream, more accurate and less extreme it can help people to have better happier sexual experiences.

Regarding cyber sex I remember the comment I posted:

“You know what? It looks like you and your cross-legged "let's talk," gift-expecting ordering-the- most-expensive- thing- on-the- menu, "what about me?" bimbo sapiens are about to be made obsolete.”
“...bimbo sapiens are about to be made obsolete.”

~ Bud Bundy to Kelly Bundy regarding his sexual experience with a Virtual Sex Machine.
Episode User Friendly (9 Apr. 1995) from “Married With Children”

Bud was part of an experiment using a virtual sex machine. It emulated and improved the real thing so well that Bud gave up all his Playboys and even rejected his hot new girlfriend Amber (Juliet Marie Tablak, 5’ 2”) who was the visiting niece of Marcy the next door neighbor.

Dialogue between Kelly and Bud: (could not find the clip in YouTube, sorry)

Kelly Bundy: Hey, Bud.; What's in the box? 

Bud Bundy: Just some old things I don't need anymore.

Kelly: Your porno magazines and your rubber dolls. Okay, Bud, I don't understand. First you blow off Amber. The only woman who's ever touched you without saying, "Excuse me, sonny." And now this?

Bud: Look, Kelly. I don't need Amber, okay. I have her. Dr. Kessler introduced me to cybersex and I can create Amber any time I want.

Kelly: But she's not the real Amber.

Bud: She's better. She does what I want, whenever I want it.This is the breakthrough that men have been waiting for since the beginning of time. 

“You know what? It looks like you and your cross-legged "let's talk," gift-expecting ordering-the- most-expensive- thing- on-the- menu, "what about me?" bimbo sapiens are about to be made obsolete.”

Amen

And the Fembots are another possibility to get the sex we want.

Amen again.

Yeah it's a phase - it's called "The Hundred Years' Phase"

There's so much porn on these various sites, it can be overwhelming trying to find the best video to unload to. That's why I have about 6 or 7 bookmarked that I keep going back to, I guess that's akin to club favorites for strip-club goers.
I wonder what's the percentage of the general adult population that has performed in a sex video, because it sure seems like amateur porn is booming. I half expect to log on one night and seeing someone I know in one these videos.