He literally leaned into the camera and shouted the word minors. From there it predictably went even further downhill. "Porn addiction is a clear and present danger in our society and these women are becoming addicted to pornography and perpetuating that sickness onto their viewers." - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

acousticmeatus.bsky.social • 10 days ago

He literally leaned into the camera and shouted the word minors.

From there it predictably went even further downhill. "Porn addiction is a clear and present danger in our society and these women are becoming addicted to pornography and perpetuating that sickness onto their viewers."

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kamari333.bsky.social•10 days ago

i feel like we had this discourse before. isnt this like. a 300 year old take? at least? i feel like i read somewhere how men didnt like women learning to read because heaven forbid they have lustful thoughts

acousticmeatus.bsky.social•10 days ago

Oh yeah, it super is. There's also a shade of the age old chestnut of things being cool until women start liking them, and then they become silly. (Sci-Fi, high heels, etc)

kamari333.bsky.social•10 days ago

misogyny and authoritarianism never change :/

acousticmeatus.bsky.social•10 days ago

It's so funny to me when people today bring up, as examples of good literature that won't rot your brains, the exact literature that was "driving women into unnatural hysterias of lust" 300 years ago.

kamari333.bsky.social•10 days ago

ikr the porn addiction excuse to control the autonomy of adults with boobs is so historically consistent it makes me wanna barf

i'll just continue to be a beacon of degeneracy and self determination

acousticmeatus.bsky.social•10 days ago

Tangent 2: Basically the only people in the world that talk about porn addiction are people from restrictive religious cultures that punish their members for normal human sexuality.

There are a lot of really depressing things about this for me:

acousticmeatus.bsky.social•10 days ago

1. The scientific consensus is that porn is not, itself, a problem. It's not a public health crisis; this is a dog whistle. There is no evidence that pronography or masturbation are bad for you. If anything the opposite is true.

acousticmeatus.bsky.social•10 days ago

2. The majority of people who talk about "porn addiction" as a serious issue in their lives actually report shocking low amounts of consumption. We're talking like "consume porn on a monthly basis" amounts.

acousticmeatus.bsky.social•10 days ago

Even if I were to accept that consuming pornography is problematic in some way and let me be clear that I do not, there is a huge difference between watching amateur vids on porntube and COMMITTING CRIMES. But the moral framework of fundamentalism treats all sin as equal. This leads nowhere good.

acousticmeatus.bsky.social•10 days ago

Finally, and again rather predictably, the video closed on homophobia. "I don't want to live in a world where people are comfortable shouting their sexual preferences to the whole world."

Alright, where is Meaty going with this, I bet you're wondering?

acousticmeatus.bsky.social•10 days ago

So there are a lot of things I want to indirectly respond to (see tangent replies) but the main one that stuck out to me was the videoist making the conjecture that people who are doing things like, say, reading ACOTAR, which cotains some spice, on a train must be catastrophically addicted to porno.

acousticmeatus.bsky.social•10 days ago

But that really doesn't take into account how much of a spicy novel is actually literally porno.

So that got me, an erotica writer, wondering what percentage of my stories actually ends up being pure smut. Behold:

acousticmeatus.bsky.social•10 days ago

What Happens in Space Vegas: 67.6K words, 10K of which is porn. 15%

Carrot and Stick: 2K out of 4K, 50%

The Space Code: 3.5K/8.5K, ~40%

Wild Grouse Chase: 2K/11K: ~18%

Communicable: ~3.5/9 - ~40%

acousticmeatus.bsky.social•10 days ago

I'm defining porno here as like.... the part of the story that I would fade-to-black over were I to let my mom read my fanfic. (This is in some cases literal and in some cases hypothetical, I am not planning to let my mom read Communicable any time soon. Please note: she thinks I am a prude.)

acousticmeatus.bsky.social•10 days ago

So. I dunno. I guess I just find it interesting that by word count even my works that I would describe as pwp or plot-driven-porn in nature are like, 50% smut max by wordcount. Does anyone have the numbers for their own work? I'd like to see how that bears out overall.