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Iceland to Ban Internet Porn!

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  • #62
    IceFjoem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭IceFjoem


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Dudes can ye not **** without porn?

    Women, eh?! :rolleyes:


  • #63
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Dudes can ye not **** without porn?

    That's the worst thing about using a bit too much porn, it fecks your imagination.


  • #64
    starlings
    Closed Accounts Posts: 683 ✭✭✭starlings


    1ZRed wrote: »
    That's the worst thing about using a bit too much porn, it fecks your imagination.

    know the **** that's one too many.


  • #65
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    starlings wrote: »
    know the **** that's one too many.

    Just dip into your spankbank bank every now and again and you're sorted. No need to go limiting yourself cos that's just crazy talk :P


  • #66
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    My name is URL wrote: »

    It's not going to happen, so no. It's a small, albeit varied group of people who are in favor of banning it.



    Are you being sarcastic? Which is more backward.. a silly idea backed by a minority of politicians to ban internet porn, or the failure of successive governments over the course of two decades to introduce legislation regarding abortion? It's been legal in Iceland since 1975!

    I dunno, Iceland?

    It's nice they have abortion. I am pro choice. However if its a woman's right to do what she wants with her body......

    I'll leave the rest as an exercise to the user.


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  • #67
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    IceFjoem wrote: »
    Iceland sent a man to the moon?! :eek:

    Yup, it's depicted in the bio-pic "Anna's Sexy Moon Adventures".


  • #68
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    These Nordic countries have made prostitution ( not just solicitation) illegal for both parties. Obviously if you do that legal porn - which is prostitution with a camera - is an anomaly.

    The conservative backlash against the sexual revolution is coming from the left.


  • #69
    starlings
    Closed Accounts Posts: 683 ✭✭✭starlings


    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    These Nordic countries have made prostitution ( not just solicitation) illegal for both parties. Obviously if you do that legal porn - which is prostitution with a camera - is an anomaly.

    The conservative backlash against the sexual revolution is coming from the left.

    probably because the left has always been concerned with people f*cking each other over.


  • #70
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Do you like fish sticks?

    So you're a gay fish then?

    Slightly NSFW (Audio)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDMfTkxvHsY


  • #71
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    starlings wrote: »
    probably because the left has always been concerned with people f*cking each other over.

    Define left, please?


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  • #72
    hames
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭hames


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Dudes can ye not **** without porn?
    Yeah but it's not the same.

    Even before we had streaming videos, there needed to be pics
    (anyone remember downloading pics?)

    even before downloading pics there was the Roches Stores catelogue.

    The swimwear pages were always stuck together in our house.


  • #73
    Herb Powell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    MaxSteele wrote: »
    The children can go fuck themselves.

    They can't now, if the porn is banned


  • #74
    ITS_A_BADGER
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭ITS_A_BADGER


    icelandic internet pjorn


  • #75
    sock puppet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭sock puppet


    hfallada wrote: »
    It wont work. Theyre is always ways around bans. Take the Chinese government firewall that blocks sites like nytimes, facebook, YouTube and pretty much every popular site in the west

    But people are still able to get around it with free software called a VPN. Likewise I heard new York times paid up to $40 million for a pay wall that you can avoid by using private browsing on google chrome.

    Another policy thats good on paper. But never works in reality

    The paywall put in place by the New York Times has been very successful. The objective of the paywall is to make money, not to ensure that no one, anywhere can read content for free.


  • #76
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    You'd need it if the rest of them looked like Bjork.:(
    Well they have had something like three Miss World winners, which makes them the most beautiful country per head of population - 1 Miss World for every 50,000 women.


  • #77
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Why are they worried about children seeing porn? It's very unlikely that they'll find it if they're not looking for it. There might be a few graphic ads on non-pornographic sites, but they're easily blocked. In general if you don't visit pornographic sites you just won't see porn.


  • #78
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Kid: "I swear I don't know how that porn got there Mom, I was just reading about my favourite cartoon characters and this video suddenly popped up."
    Mother: "Internet pornography is attacking my children!!!11"
    Must be how it happens. ^

    In my day you'd have to **** off without knowing what a vagina even looked like "Is it like a hole on the front? Or is it smooth like action man?".


  • #79
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Internet porn in the 11th century.

    (not safe for work but fine for academic study!)
    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JFAe_AjJ5NE/UBfGFtTR6wI/AAAAAAAAAHM/1bm-Q9ZauA4/s1600/011.JPG


  • #80
    Truncheon Rouge
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 388 ✭✭Truncheon Rouge


    There's got to be real people putting this proposal forward.
    Combine that with rule 34 of the internet = ironic.


    http://rulesoftheinternet.com/index.php?title=Main_Page


  • #81
    Sin City
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭Sin City


    Maybe they should ban movies too that have nudity , or violence or even a bad guy. Wouldnt want television to corrupt the youth and become.the bad.guys themselves.
    Banning porn will never happen


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  • #82
    Auldloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭Auldloon


    Lapin wrote: »
    Waiting for the obligatory horse burger / Bjork / joke.

    What did Bjork say to the burger?
    Lob it into me there hoss....


  • #83
    starlings
    Closed Accounts Posts: 683 ✭✭✭starlings


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Define left, please?

    political/philosophical perspective that seeks equality and fairness in society; at odds with exploitation, irresponsible consumerism -and objectification of women.


  • #84
    somefeen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭somefeen


    Publishing porn is already banned there so its not that insane really.

    Not as liberal a society as ye might think. No strip clubs for instance.


  • #85
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    starlings wrote: »
    political/philosophical perspective that seeks equality and fairness in society; at odds with exploitation, irresponsible consumerism -and objectification of women.

    I wouldn't agree with that, I consider myself left wing and I support absolute freedom of speech and the de-tabooing of sexuality, unlike the right which includes a lot of religious nuts who think they have a right to stuff 'family values' down everyone's throat...

    This why defining everything in terms of left/right is so foolish. As someone who would be defined as "left wing", I am a staunch believer in social freedom in every walk of life. Censorship is not a left wing policy - it's the conservative right that are constantly attacking free speech.


  • #86
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Dudes can ye not **** without porn?

    Probably going to raise some eyebrows with this but tbh I'm far more likely to fantasize about being with girls I know and fancy in real life whilst having one ;)

    Porn comes second to that for sure. It's a much bigger turn on to find written erotica, since in your head you can picture whoever you want as the characters.

    I have an extremely vivid visual and auditory imagination though, I can literally play movies scene by scene in my head with nothing out of place, so maybe I just find that a lot easier than others? I know there's apparently an actual difference whereby some people use visual, mental images for their imagination and some just don't have that visual element when they think of things. Maybe that's why some prefer mental fantasy and others prefer videos etc?


  • #87
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    Maybe that's why some prefer mental fantasy and others prefer videos etc?

    Talking with my friends I'd say imagination tends to be the favourite method of... eh... well... y'know... patting the pete...?


  • #88
    starlings
    Closed Accounts Posts: 683 ✭✭✭starlings


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    I wouldn't agree with that, I consider myself left wing and I support absolute freedom of speech and the de-tabooing of sexuality, unlike the right which includes a lot of religious nuts who think they have a right to stuff 'family values' down everyone's throat...

    This why defining everything in terms of left/right is so foolish. As someone who would be defined as "left wing", I am a staunch believer in social freedom in every walk of life. Censorship is not a left wing policy - it's the conservative right that are constantly attacking free speech.

    I only brought the "left" into it because Duggy's Housemate remarked on Scandinavian policies against prostitution and, as he saw it, the rolling back of the sexual revolution.

    I'm not left-wing, but I'm certainly not right wing either. I agree with you on defending free speech, but I think some left-wing people are very censorious too.

    I think porn has, in some ways, "re-tabooed" some aspects of sexuality -e.g body image, skewed notions of sexual appetites and availability. I'm not for banning it, (ideology aside, it'd be a hopeless task) but it depresses the last drops of libido out of me to think that the "sexual revolution" means I am free to watch other women being f*cked and judged on their ability to please men.


  • #89
    poisonated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭poisonated


    If this is true, Public outrage would surely erupt.


  • #90
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Icelanders have better things to worry about like narwhal attacks


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  • #91
    Joe Gentle Silverware
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Joe Gentle Silverware


    starlings wrote: »
    I think porn has, in some ways, "re-tabooed" some aspects of sexuality -e.g body image, skewed notions of sexual appetites and availability. I'm not for banning it, (ideology aside, it'd be a hopeless task) but it depresses the last drops of libido out of me to think that the "sexual revolution" means I am free to watch other women being f*cked and judged on their ability to please men.

    Well you're free not to watch it too
    As are the icelanders, as long as they just don't ban it for the rest of us


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