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.
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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.
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.
Same as any purely pleasurable outlet: great in moderation, terrible when one can’t self regulate. I find it easy to avoid rape-y, tween, unrealistic porn in which I don’t find any sexual gratification. There’s plenty of small creators out there that produce wholesome sexual content.
I highly encourage people to go for amateur and home-made material. Yes, the professional models are nice, but regular people doing regular things are also very hot.
some of the ‘amateur’ stuff has higher production quality, crazy bodies, and crazy sex acts, than the pros.
a lot of the amateur these days that is popular seems to be done by bored trust fund millionaire types. personally one woman I know who did do porn… that was precisely her situation. she did it for fun and paid for her own shoots. then would have ‘fans’ take her on vacations across the globe to 5 star resorts for 5-6 figure price tags.
she basically did porn not for money, but as a way to advertise her body for sex trips from very wealthy men. she probably made more ‘profit’ than anyone short of the pro porn stars.
I second this^
alot of the non-ph sites(more obscure) have “pirated” OF content amateur and old PH videos.
*a lot.
Indifferent. Not sure why I feel indifference, but it might be from not ever looking at it.
Never huh?
I have, but it’s been probably 7 or 8 years since I’ve watched it. I watched a LOT of porn as a teenager.
Whatever someone wants to do with their body is up to them (within legal limits)
To the people who say “she’s selling her body”, I say this:
So are you. So am I. So is everybody. A miner or oil rigger is selling their body to be used as labour for 10 hours a day.
An accountant is selling their body to sit at a desk and crunch numbers for ten hours a day.
We’re all selling our bodies to corporations every day in exchange for a paycheque. If a person is comfortable using nudity for it, more power to 'em.
And someone doing porn is probably selling their body way less than someone doing hard physical work and having lost some of their body functionality by the time they’re 50
most onlyfan models are just sitting in their bedroom in different outfits and flirting with subscribers via messages/vids.
the really successful ones have fulltime staff to do this for them.
Spot on.
Fair point
If actors have good safety measures & enforced regulations I think it’s a positive thing for viewers in moderation. Some folks have trouble with moderation or telling the difference between fantasy and reality though and should be more cautious.
It exists, and 99% of it is made for men
Edit: even (especially) the lesbian porn 😤
Possibly an underestimation, need more significant digits.
I enjoy making porn.
Hell yeah
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.
I like looking at it :3
Jokes aside, porn is a type of media, and people who think porn influences behavior should also be extremely afraid of kids who play GTA, or watch any media that depicts violence.
I like it because it’s a tool to explore sexuality in a way that my imagination could never. It’s an incredible experience to come across something so sexy that I never would’ve imagined would push my buttons in just the right way.
It also shows me what I like and dislike, or what I could like in the right context, and makes me reflect on why I like those things.
Other times, I’ve had a “wtf are we doing” kind of moment, wondering why or how we even got to this weird thing that we need to insert appendages into orifices. Like, isn’t it absurd on some level?
Aroused, usually …
You freak!
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.
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.
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.
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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Porn is just another tool. People use it in lots of different ways.
Way too many people generalize it’s use by other people, mostly because of the shame around sex and sexual identity.
But that’s also true of any media or medium. Tons of people still shame TV or video games as evil/bad inherently. And judge others consumption but feel victimized when they are judged for their consumption preferences.
Id tend to agree
I prefer hentai/rule34 but real porn can be fine too. I know that not all porn industries are bad but I do know that there are, or at least were, some really bad ones. Also, I’m mostly into tentacle hentai and live action tentacle hentai is usually absolutely terrible.
