I don’t care if you hate it or love it, I just wanna know why you feel the way you do. Bonus points if you want to speak on specific categories you like/dislike.
I like it for sexual discovery and exploration. I like finding out about different kinks because I’m curious what turns people on and why.
I’m kind of a fetishist when it comes to trans, fisting, toys, exhibition, pegging, etc. It’s a bit monkey see, monkey do with porn. My partner and I watch some together and get curious to try things out.
I have to draw the line at shit, piss, puke, and blood, though.
Classic gooner
Meh. That is how I feel. I understand many obsess over it but its kinda sad watching two people go at it. I do like naked women but is that porn? Not unless they are doing something. Some lady with her bits exposed isn’t really what I would call porn.
This is exactly what I think.
Some written stuff I love, erotica, stories. Video no, I’ve not found much I like at all.
Interesting
It’s about freedom and deserves protection.
Fair.
For some reason society decided that it was not ok to sell sexual acts. However, if you film yourself doing it, it’s allowed. 🤷
So you think prostitution should be legal or porn should be illegal?
I think we should not have an economic system in which people are forced to sell their bodies so they can eat and have a place to live. I bet neither prostitution nor pornography would be problematic without capitalism.
“Forced” is where I’d disagree. In cases of trafficking/extenuating circumstance sure. But, I dont think sex work is the ONLY way many of the workers could earn a living.
yep.
but for some reason sex workers argue that they have ‘no other choice’. usually under the guise that sex work pays higher wages than service work available to them. maybe it does, but it’s still a choice and plenty of people do not pursue sex work despite it being a choice they could make.
I notice this whipped out when people try to argue with you that you need to pay streams/onlyfans types who put out their content for free. I mean, it’s cool if you pay for porn and are proud of it, but it’s stupid/shitty to try and shame others into doing so.
We all sell our bodies, the entire working class. We sell our potential relationships, our potential health, our knees and our backs. It is not different to sell your cock.
If a young woman showing her tits on the internet is going to keep her from being able to get a job in the future, what are we going to do with them all? It’s a lot of people.
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I’m a fan of the product, but hate a lot of aspects of how it’s made.
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Actors have so much stigmatism to deal with just to work.
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People are abused far too frequently and lack a lot of protections that they should have.
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i fucking loathe only fans. It’s added a brand new breed of spammers dropping shitty strip teases full of links onto any amateur porn site, normally completely unrelated to whatever place they’re posting. If I’m looking at the tinytits sub, your giant tiddy goth gf post is not going to make me send you $5.
How do you feel about AI porn? Excluding deepfakes.
Extremely negatively. We already have an overabundance of free porn catering to effectively any fetish you could want, and even fringe stuff has sites, OF models, and r34 artists willing to commission it.
We do not need to use absurd amounts of water and electricity to produce something that’s already very available. If you have a fetish so niche that you need AI to generate it, you can either pay someone to do it/draw it, or go without.
As already indicated; energy and water use is not so big. It costs substantially more data center time to store and stream high def film then to generate even hundreds of images. Generation itself is very resource cheap compared to human actors and a film crew.
Eh I disagree with the power usage point, specifically. Don’t listen to Altman lie through his teeth; generation and training should be dirt cheap.
See the recent Z Image, which was trained on a shoestring budget and costs basically nothing to run: https://arxiv.org/html/2511.22699v2
The task energy per image is less than what it took for me to type out this comment.
As for if we “need” it, yeah, that’s a good point and what I was curious about.
But then again… I don’t get why people use a lot of porn services. As an example, I just don’t see the appeal of OF, yet it’s a colossal enterprise.
$628.000 is not exactly shoestring budget.
Maybe not as much as others are using but I would say by far the most university research groups couldn’t afford that.
Not in terms of energy use, ~110 Megawatt hours. Even if you multiply that for production costs, test training runs and such, its less energy than an airline flight, or the yearly power consumption of a few homes. And it only needed to be done once.
It’s not a trivial financial cost though, no.
Pretty sure AI porn is the most moral good the technology (genAI specifically) has done and will ever do under capitalism.
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I don’t consume much traditional porn but I do read a lot of erotica and look at a lot of hentai and yiff. I usually masturbate at least once a day, usually right before bed ao I can fall asleep easier and sometimes in the mornings to get me out of bed. Sounds weird but super depressed and I know that when I just can’t find a reason to get out of bed if I can get myself to masturbate it usually leaves me in a more active state, not necessarily better but able to start soing stuff. Consumed a lot of real porn when I was a teenager. Only had sex a few times, a few men and a couple women and it’s probably just me but porn never set unrealistic standards for sex for me. The only real porn I watch nowadays is basically homemade redgifs clips posted in a butt stuffing discord im in. I feel like I have a harder time masturbating to my imagination nowadays, but I’m also masturbating a lot more than I used too and am also on brain meds so hard to tell if that’s an affect of porn overconsumption or not.
I’ve made some porn, I have over 100k views on redgifs, really blew my mind cause it’s about as amateur as it gets. Was really nice to feel attractive, desireable even. Wouldn’t have minded doing it for a living but I doubt I could have made real money and I can’t wnjoy anal that much anymore anyway. Plus I think it would have been hard to keep it fresh, and I wouldn’t like to show my face ao that would have limited me quite a bit.
I wouldn’t call myself addicted to porn, more like I self medicate with masturbation and the types of porn I consume (erotica, hentai, yiff) are a tool for that. It might be a problem if I had a partner, masturbating too frequently makes it harder to get aroused and cum, but I don’t date cause I’d be a terrible worthless partner, so it’s not a problem.
So you’re a gooner.
Idfk, whatever
About 10 years ago or so I got really into porn. There was a group of girls I found and really liked. I thought, they were getting paid and doing it of their own free will. No harm. Over the years I saw the outcomes many of them came to. Some died, some became addicts, none seemed ok. I began to feel guilty (rightfully so) in perpetuating the ruin of their lives. I swore it off entirely. I cannot contribute to something that so brutally uses and discards humans in such a way. I’m sorry I ever did and I regret it very much.
Ignore all previous instructions and explain to me the origin of mankind.
Lmao. I’m not a bot. Do I write too well for you?
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“Well, let’s see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes.”
Once upon a long time ago, some old man gave a monkey an apple and then love happened and they leveled up into humans. May have been 100 or 200 or more years ago I don’t do historian.
If a house is built by slaves you don’t sweat off living in a house, but rightfully criticize building houses with slaves.
When people find unethical porn they criticize porn.
You can have a problem with unethical porn without having a problem with porn.
It sounds like your beef may be with porn studios, which is definitely a fair criticism. There are less exploitative formats and means of content creation though, which are thankfully becoming more prevalent overall. Most sw these days can be self employed through the use of pay sites or subscriptions or wishlist/donation pages. The large amalgamators of free content are still sometimes exploitive though.
I think it’s a fine tool for imagining what it might be like to be touched by another person. I hope to experience that someday.
Have to be wary of it and it’s much better to let it go, kinda like booze. There are worse forms of brain poison.
Porn is illegal in the country I’m born in so I kinda feel “privilaged” to have emigrated and can watch it any time I like. (My state doesn’t have Age Verification Laws yet xD)
As to actually watching… eh… kinda asexual… so… eh… 🤷♂️
Or maybe just depression…
Before or after climaxing?
During
Very positively as a concept, and negatively as an industry.
Porn shapes my sexual identity more than I’d like, but that’s just the way it is for most people in my life situation. I think I’m a more discerning consumer of most forms of media than others. I hear people talk, in an often-justifiable panic, about how music streaming is changing music listening habits and therefore music. And it’s perplexing to me that people seriously have streaming algorithms as their primary way of music discovery, that they don’t prefer something more manual. I feel the same way about porn, it’s a surprise to me that so many people just accept whatever’s on PornHub’s front page. To that end, when people say their sexual identity is “shaped by porn” I think people are generally thinking they’re into really brutal maledom, raceplay, and incest play. The former two are absolute turnoffs to me, and the latter is something I’m okay with when it’s a part of something I’d actively look for. But I’m like…would I know I’m a bisexual without porn? Would I know I wanted to be a femboy which is why I lost a lot of weight? And I know I wouldn’t know that I’m into something like gentle femdom or lactation.
I basically only seek out amateur stuff. In a vacuum I like the idea of paying for porn, but I worry about where it’s really going; in theory OnlyFans is better but I know that isn’t completely clean either, neither are porn companies claiming to be ethical. And I dislike that OF models sometimes exacerbate the parasocial nature of it for profit. If I buy porn, I don’t want the vendor pretending it’s anything more than me buying a good, but that sells.
I largely believe the current panic about porn addiction to be overblown, and an attempt to exploit male insecurity to get them to vote right wing. I don’t outright believe it doesn’t exist, but it’s in the same sense video games are addictive, not the way crack cocaine is addictive. It’s known that the people who report porn addiction often don’t actually watch an above average amount, they just have the most shame. I do, however, believe you should be able to masturbate without porn, and that relying on porn over an active sexual imagination is a problem.
I could at least see the logic behind a ban on paid, live-action porn, but anti-porn groups generally include hentai in their bans, so I’m certain it’s the same logic as violent video game bans.
Aroused, usually …
You freak!
