PunkInDrublic said:
Never understood the "seeing something acted out in a video game or movie will make the person less likely to do it" line of thought. Been proven untrue in so many cases. Almost always acts as an enabler.
When I play Tiger Woods golf it makes me want to go play real golf. When I watch anal porn I want to fuck butts. I don't want to shoot people in real life when I play COD though. Weird.
It's interesting though, people do get encouraged by what they see on screen. In my experience I've never seen anyone who plays war like video games or watches war films become more likely to go out and be violent. Maybe more likely to want to play war like games, like paintballing, and become very serious about it, but maybe this is because when you play a computer game you are actively going around shooting people, on screen perhaps, but it's something you can get interactive with. It's also clearly a fantasy and in a war like situation. If anyone were to want to get into that situation from that then they'd join the army. There is the opportunity to go around and shoot a bunch of people/make that a reality.
Television is different. For example, everyone who I know who watches angry soaps, and things like jeremy Kyle (englands Springer), where there are loads of upsetting arguments, are generally much angrier, argumentative, and depressive people than people I know who avoid that sort of thing. I notice when I watch things like that I become an angrier person. Watching it doesn't release inner angry urges, it lets the anger and upset leak onto me. Todays society keeps getting angrier and nastier because it's common for people to watch tv where everyone is nasty to each other. No one can deny that on a small scale people follow what they see on television.
Porn is another example. Most men I've slept with, especially those who watch lots of porn will try and act out scenes they've seen. They will want to do things that I really doubt they'd be that interested in without porn. In fact, porn means that it becomes harder for them to be turned on by little things so they crave more explicit things to get their release. Anal is one of these things. As I'm only 22 I don't know how common anal sex was say, 20-50 years ago, but I have a big feeling it is on the rise. Nowadays most men my age have, or at least want to partake in anal sex. Most men I know who haven't it's because they haven't found a partner who's willing, and a few simply don't like the idea of it. I know quite a few guys who seem to want to fuck a girls bum much more than her pussy. Now I'm all for anal sex, but there is definitely something a bit weird about not being interested in the place that's actually supposed to be fucked, and only wanting somewhere that is made for a very not sexy reason.
I know anal sex did happen before anal porn became such a big thing, but was it on such a large scale where most girls have at least tried it, and usually not because they've thought up the idea?
I know that porn has definitely made it harder for me to find things in my imagination sexy, and now I need more extreme things to turn me on when I masturbate than I needed when I was younger, and I don't even watch much porn! Maybe like once/twice every month/two months I'll watch it. People are saying as an argument for allowing pedophiles to watch animated child porn that it might help subdue the urges, which sounds great and all, but I have a feeling it'd do the opposite. For BlueViolet, or Luna, watching these cartoon porn images would release an inner fantasy and it'd be done with there. For a pedophile these images could excite them at first, but the more images they get the more they'll need more graphic things to get off. Once the cartoon images lose their excitement I think they'd be more likely to find other ways to get that thrill. Sex is a drug, the more you get exposed to it the more addictive it becomes. Being a sex addict I know this from first hand experience. Feeding it just makes you want more.
HiGirlsRHot said:
You know what else sometimes works methadone treatments. Methadone isn't good for you it is just a hell of a lot better than heroin
Actually Methadone is a LOT worse for you than heroin. It's success rates are poor. It is a very poor substitute to heroin that they use to ween people off heroin. What it actually does is make the people even more ill while they're trying to get off the original drug. What does work is weening people off heroin with heroin. But this wouldn't work in the case of sex. If you were a sex addict you couldn't start giving people smaller doses of sex until they're no longer a sex addict, it just doesn't work that way. And the same with pedophilia. Except for you couldn't actually give the pedophile smaller doses of sex.
Pedophilia, unlike being gay is often teemed with a bunch of other mental problems and histories in being abused. It often gets formed from exposure of these things happening. Mostly their mental disorders go far beyond fancying small children.
I don't believe all pedophiles are evil, I feel sorry for a lot of them. The ones who hate who they are and literally cannot help it, and who make sure they never go through with it. Even ones who may slip up once, not actually molesting a child, but getting close to a child in an inappropriate way but don't do anything that harms the child. I can feel sorry for them. It's horrible how they are and they cannot help it. I still think that they shouldn't be allowed in society and it'd be kinder to lock them up, not a dark prison necessarily, but somewhere nice where they cannot ever get out, but can live away from the rest of the world.
Out of pedophiles though, there are many who simply are evil. The ones who go through with their thoughts and molest children. My boyfriends sister was going out with someone who turned out to be a pedophile, he was part of a circle of other pedophiles who would find and target children and would encourage each other. Those people... they just deserve to be shot. Those people I think are the ones who would be more likely to look for child pornography, even if cartoon animated.
