do you mean popular in public or popular in general
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ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Reading gooner “literature” needs to be shamed, at least a little bit.
TractorDuffy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Reading gooner “literature” needs to be shamed, at least a little bit.
do you mean popular in public or popular in general
Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
This company has existed since the 1940s; reading erotica is not even remotely a new phenomenon and you’re fighting a losing battle if you think you’re going to change that. Maybe you should instead get comfortable with the fact that a healthy sexual appetite is normal and people have been engaging in various forms of mental masturbation since literally the dawn of humanity.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s a difference between writing things to satisfy a “healthy sexual appetite” and some of the honestly disgusting and insane things that get published. I guess I’m more against literary depravity (like shit involving falling in love with your rapist or family stuff, many Wattpad stories are like that) than I am against just erotica.
Emotional_Series7814@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
The question is where do you draw the line? I’m sure that in Victorian times, something like sex with the lights on or anything not heterosexual is
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I think a better question is how do we prevent people from getting hurt in real life, not what do you personally find disgusting. I personally cannot watch horror, pimple-popping, even had to look away during some action movies because I think injuries are disgusting, but I don’t argue for these things that will live rent-free in my head in a negative way to stop existing for everyone. I just don’t consume it, and ask people to tag content appropriately if I see it untagged. But of course, if you injure a person in real life and not just on film or a book, then by all means throw the book at them and stop the depraved insanity.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s brain poison, and you can waste your time with things that are not nearly as depraved. Stop your perspectivism, at some point these things are just morally wrong and shouldn’t be published (any literature that praises/paints in a good light things like rape, assault, abuse, etc just because it makes people wet). Do I think it’s a big thing overall? No, because this is porn for women and women aren’t outside murdering and raping, that’s almost entirely the domain of men. I do think that, especially for those that come from an amoral, postmodern culture and that never knew what it’s like to have a proper male role model, or what male love should be like because their fathers either weren’t at home or were confused and amoral, it can be somewhat dangerous.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
What you find disgusting some will find normal, and what you find normal some will find disgusting. You do not get to be the arbiter of morality for me any more than I get to be the arbiter of morality for you.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, that’s nonsense, things are or aren’t more on the side of virtue than vice and vice versa. If you wanna stand for rape, abuse, coercion, weird age gaps, bestislity, etc. in your literature because it turns you on, that’s you, but it’s depraved. And we all get to speak about it, and you don’t have to agree with what I’m saying.