I'm desensitized?

Yo Mamma

This guy in the pub gave me a full-length porn film on video disk the other day. I've downloaded a few clips from the internet (haven't we all - heh) but it must be at least 5 years since I saw an actual full-length porn movie.

I eventually got around to watching it a few days ago and guess what - it had the same fcuking cast as the movie I'd seen 5 years ago! It looked so cheesy and lame compared to the stuff I'd seen on the 'net that I was hitting the fast forward button after 3 minutes. In fact I think I scanned through the entire 70 minute film in under 6 minutes.

When I went round to the guy's house to give him the movie back he showed me some more titles that he happened to be er.., copying. They all looked the same too! Big houses, big cars, plastic pot plants, plastic tits and some guy called Peter North, whose penis intimidated the hell out of me. Fortunately it was embedded in the shapely form of one Ms Asia Carrera. (rather her than me I thought)

Had I not seen so many internet clips, I would probably have enjoyed at least a few of the moments in those movies. Does this mean I'm desensitized? Have I been spoiled by the seemingly endless supply of no nonsense Fcuk films on the internet? The sad truth is, yes I have. The even sadder truth is that everybody who spends time on the 'net has become desensitized to some degree. The vast majority of parents DON'T supervise their kids on the internet because it keeps them so quiet. The last generation was raised by Television, the next generation is being raised by the internet. The significant thing here is that the internet is much "better" at providing social interaction than television (or real life) ever was. Even weedy geeks can be schoolyard bullies on the internet. Suffice to say, it's effect upon children is much more profound than anything that came before it.

For the time being, the internet community is still a subculture and the mainstream cares little for what anybody on the internet thinks (heh - including my little rant here) but sooner or later the mainstream will be populated by children of the internet and that's when things will change. I suppose some would go on to paint a black future where the world is run by cyber crack heads but not me! I'd rather look at the funnier side of what might happen.

First off; dictionaries would have to change in order to accommodate the overwhelming number of words that now seem to be spelled with numbers! Like the word "l33t" for instance, which is apparently an adjective that describes this very post and the guy that posted it!

Emoticons and chat room shorthand will be used on CNN news broadcasts. For example, it won't be unusual to see headlines flashing across the screen like: "Fifteen die in train wreck " or "Osama bin Laden is executed ROFL" or even "John Major is gheye "

Anyway does this desensitivity effect us all in some way ??

TwoShedsJackson

Good ol' Peter North, Mr. Half Gallon himself As for desensitisation, yes the net probably is having that effect on some people.

On the other hand, I have seen pics and videos on the net that have turned my stomach e.g. the soldier getting stabbed in Chechnya and I remain un-desensitised to that.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say, what I find revolting (or exciting) may excite or repel another person, respectively. Some pics I thought pretty bad when I first saw them, but now find fine e.g. the infamous Goatse, after numerous viewings at the SA forums

Shinji

Suffice to say, it's effect upon children is much more profound than anything that came before it.

I'd far prefer a generation "desensitised" who think that sex is a perfectly normal and rather enjoyable part of life, to a generation of repressed nutters...

Venom

Just because Goatse dosent bother you is no reasion to have it set as your wall paper Castor

SheroN

This is true allright i reckon. The internet has turned me into a freak. {!}. People like castor troy and/or certain scat sites containing mr troy have taken away my innocence....after accidentaly stumbling upon a site of two people covered in a healthy lacar of guiness **** having violent sex....nothing seems to sicken me as much anymore coz i compare everything to the imprints left on my character.

I saw a pic once of a terrorist after being shot in the head with an anti aircraft gun, his head was like a lumpy mat laid on his shoulders. i left out a giggle at this pic before i realised how sick it was.

hence in summary the net should be banned. It's down sides far out weigh it's good sides.

Aspro

I have to say the Net is a good thing on the whole. I've seen things that have turned my stomach like the soldier in Chechnya who had his throat violently slit but it's not as if I didn't know that that sort of thing goes on in the world.

The Net is a world community which draws people together and that can only be good. If parents want to shield their childrens eyes from certain materilal then that is their prerogative and their duty as parents. There are plenty of safeguard programs out there to facilitate that.

I don't agree with censorship - some higher authority having a say in what us ordinary folks can see or not. Like telly or radio, if you don't like it, switch over. We still have control over our fingers, don't we?

Porn is like anything else - it's not real. If you want to have a ****, have a ****. Just don't expect that normal human relationships work like that.

Last point - as well as surfing - get out, see your friends, talk about things and read books - that's my solution to keeping a clear head.

Clintons Cat

desensitized to porn yes
desensitized to sex no.

that is With the exception of Kiddie Porn and some of the very extreme violent japanese stuff (women having sex at knife point ect)
Stuff like that makes me angry and mad (well madder than normal anyway) whenever i come across that kind of stuff i really wish there was a way to shut the ba5tards down permanently:(

the best thing about the internet is never having to pay for a **** mag ever again...An endorsement that would shift 1,000,000 internet ready 486's

i understand your point about Video though.Late eighties porn movies were the pits.Some of the men were so ugly you couldnt tell if it was their butt or their face in close up.
You might recomend you friend tries the services of Hard Core Cafe as advertised in all good newspapers with sport in the title.

Chubby

Originally posted by Clintons Cat
Late eighties porn movies were the pits.Some of the men were so ugly you couldnt tell if it was their butt or their face in close up.

I don't think you were meant to be looking at the men

Clintons Cat

Those were the days... pre internet porn and Certificate18 movies.
the censors in the UK find the site of a mans errect penis obsene,
sadly this was not the case with a flabby pornguys hairy ass.Given the vice squad was for some reason extremely hot at intercepting any continental strength movies the only porn we could get was pretty dire.
it consisted of Scene One the Blow Job.
starts with close up of mullet Mans Hairy face,camera would pan slowly down until it reached his navel...<snip>picture would then cut back to pornguys face who would say somthing insightful like "oh yeah"before the camera began repeating the process for ten minuetes or so.Then if you were lucky you might get a longshot of the back of the womans head.
Scene two
Sex...(god help us)
as scene one except intercut with scenes of flabby mans ass thrashing around like a beached whale.
At a stag night The very sight of a womans bush was enough to raise a cheer
If it all sounds very unerotic...it was.

neuro-praxis

Originally posted by Shinji


I'd far prefer a generation "desensitised" who think that sex is a perfectly normal and rather enjoyable part of life, to a generation of repressed nutters...

I agree to a large extent. I'm thankful that I was always one of those kids who had open-minded and unembarassed parents to chat to when it came to sex, and have hence developed a really comfortable attitude etc. etc.

However, I'm not sure that pornography (while not making any judgement on it in this context) is the way to teach adolescents that sex is healthy and normal. I learned that it was healthy through talking to my parents, reading books, and just general growing-up experiences and talking to friends...if we are honest with ourselves - most of the younger porn viewers would (subconsciously at least) consider to some degree what they are up to as being "dirty", no?

Even the healthiest teenagers experience feelings of shame or guilt when it comes sexuality during adolescence, albeit these feelings are often undefined.

So whilst I think we are definitely better off than my mother was when she was growing up in the sixties, I don't necessarily feel that it's a good thing to become a "desensitised" generation.

It isn't as though porn is in any way a realistic interpretation of sex.

I think sex is now undervalued somewhat.

po0k

No, the market's just been saturated.

12 year-olds getting pregnent ffs.

Relationships are less valued because now-a-days if your marriage isn't 'working out' you can get a quick D. I. V. O. R. C. E. or 'annulment' as the church views it.
People are just generally lazy. They have been fed images of perfect angelic american families through evil soaps such as '7th Heaven' and other such tripe. 'The Waltons' and 'Little House on an Oil Field' in cluded. Couples then expect their relationship to just 'work-out' withou the need of their effort.

That is my current view. I do not (currently) speak from experience.