Saturday, February 11, 2006

When was your first porn - a question to put forward to pornography consumers

When did you watch your first porn?

Despite the problem of accessibility, over 80% of the guys I know and I read about watched their first porn before the legally permitted age. If there is a quantitative research done on this and reveal a result likewise, shall we start to question the censorship system we have now?

According to my limited knowledge, the popular censorship in the world now - standardised by the western cernsor authorities - always categorise porn materials 18 and above. Does watching porn under that age really do a lot of harms to the cultivation of 'normal' character? If so, does it mean that we are living in a world full of lunatics now?

Of course there is another explanation: to keep hardcore materials as top secrets that only adults have the key is to make sex a more sacred activity (or in the other end: a stigmatised activity), so that even if kids get to see such materials, they are gonna be self-censored and feeling guilty about it. The argument is: 1st, they might deliberately do if for the sake that it is forbidden and consequently feeling only excitement instead of guiltiness; 2nd, since the nature of sex and how we gonna deal with the activity of sex is uncertain, is it neccessary to stigmatise or make it sacred? Can I further argue that all such censorships are based on a system of morality that is, in consequence of a series of social and philosophical reforms, not feasible to glue the contemporary social fabrication anymore?

Whether the quantitative data is absent or not, it will still be interesting to see what sort of role pornography plays in the cultivation of perspection towards sex and even identities (gender identity for sure: there are a lot of space to debate on this topic) through interviews: is it a challenge so as to be described as a milestone of life, or is it just another must-dos that to balance out the restrictive and rebellious teenage life?

To be continued....

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