A Comment Made at Alternet This Morning

I'm always so interested in how the pro-porn people always claim that watching people turned into objects for use, abuse, disposal and murder couldn't possibly have any effect on anyone.  Well, the media knows pretending that repeated messaging isn't unrelated to behavior is a lie.   They act on knowing it has an effect even as they pretend not to know that  because they're always selling time and page space to companies for advertising designed to do exactly that, change behavior by repeated messaging, most of it using people's bodies sexually to effect that change.  As I am typing this just such commercial messages are appearing on the side bar.

In my lifetime there has been a definite change in gay sexual behavior led by the porn I've seen since the early 1960s, promoting anal sex and making it a far more common form of sex among gay men than it was when I first came on that scene.   After the AIDS crisis when porn was used to encourage a change of behavior, promoting safer sex, when "AIDS Is Over" was proclaimed by one of the more idiotic and visible gay men, porn once again sold unprotected anal sex as being desirable and HIV infection rates started rising again.  I'm sure no real and valid studies have been done to "prove" a connection but I think anyone who claims to not believe there is one is stupid if not lying.

I'm sure not everyone who watches a lot of porn goes on to commit some sex crime but most people who smoke don't get lung cancer and most people who have an arsenal in their house don't climb a bell tower and shoot down people.   Claiming you can't prove a causal connection to watching porn and crime because studies of the general population can't find one (controversial in itself) is stupid.  You have to study people who are convicted of those crimes to find any causal relationship and, let me break this to you, I wouldn't trust a rapist to tell me the truth on that count.

I've got every confidence that a society that watches a lot of porn debases people, women, gay men, etc.  because porn teaches its viewers to see people as objects for use, abuse, disposal and, yes, murder.

There is nothing liberal or leftist about porn, it teaches the values of the far right, of slavery and oppression.