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RE: Sex On The Brain! Liberated or manipulated, Is pornography really a mass lobotomy?
There's all kinds of porn out there.....When you're free from all of it then we can talk.
I've mentioned the porn of social media. How about the porn of war? The porn of fiat/fractional lending? The porn of exploiting others labour for personal profit? The porn of environmental degradation? The porn of every manner of unnecessary exploitation and coercion of other people and life forms? It's all porn as far as I can see and if you choose to abstain from one form of it while enabling all the other types; well then, there is a name for that: self-deception......
No, I am the exact opposite of the Puritan ethic.......
Here is my official public view on sex, porn, and prostitution:
http://andrewmarkmusic.com/?p=40
yes, very good. One of the main reasons for my post and I don't know if you missed it was the way in which cutting the porn out improves quality of life, certainly on a personal level it has improved my relationships and the act of abstaining from this "one form" (the definition of pornography as in imagery explicit in the display of sexual organs) has remarkable holistic benefits. From a spiritual perspective abstinence from porn gives me a greater ability to get on in the world and even get along with others.
I feel you missed the sentiment of my post but thank you for your opinion.
And I'm sorry that you disagree so strongly with what I have said in the post.
I agree that ALL kinds of addiction are counter-productive to healthy lifestyles; and although I don't disagree with your definition, I do expand the definition to mean all forms of explicit exploitation and coercion.
In that sense, although it's fine to swat flies it's also better to address the underlying conditions which create the conditions for such pestilence.
On a personal note: it's true that your experience has helped YOU, but it's an error to project your experience onto everyone else--that becomes a type of logical fallacy..........
My focus is not on any individual but rather critiquing and trying to affect and change vast systems of corruption.
good luck with that. My focus is primarily on the individual and raising awareness about awareness and exactly what drives addictive behaviors at the personal level and taking back ones personal power in noticing the energies in the form of thoughts and bodily sensations that arise and seeing through it all, perhaps being continually presently aware of what is happening with these driving energies can safeguard us from certain persuasion tactics and dissolve addictions, mans primary addiction is addiction to thinking, rather than feeling and being consciously aware. I merely point to the question asking who has profited regarding the "sexual revolution" and state that many of the positive effects of quitting pornography are what have been reported by the growing number of people who make this life choice (for personal reasons) together with a statement that says research is beginning to back up these positive changes and I brush over the relatively well documented effect of surges of dopamine and how that can affect motivation levels. thank you for your views.
Am I to understand that your perspective on this is embedded within eastern religious philosophy? In a sense, you sound like John Mackie from Whole Foods, or a whole slew of others like Brian Johnston from the old Zaadz site, or even the philosopher king himself, Wilber: all asserting some kind of quasi-spirituality focusing on being more conscious. All of it quite suspect after my 20 years of investigating this spiritual worldview; it looks to me like all those folks did was cash-out and really couldn't care an iota about the full-spectrum structures that create these social harmonic distortions. i.e. the mafia in all its different guises......
I also think this view is somewhat equivalent to the lone-recycler ethic when it comes to pollution, especially C.C.--the lone recycling ethos isn't up to the task of solving the problems.
Anyway, below is some solid data which points to relative benignness of porn in and of itself.
Myself, I find porn stupid and inane but I find much of Steemit and Social Media to be, too.......
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-sunny-side-of-smut/
As far as I can tell the woman who wrote this article also promotes vaccinations but I guess that's another story
Regarding religion I steer away from any dogmatic approach be for the existence of God or against or be it for the government or against, generally I hold any opinions quite loosely and recognize the theater of people Vs government or government Vs government blagh blagh