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And in fact, even the religious circles aren't conclusive.
Because if we really knew how bad porn was for our society, then we wouldn't have it in our society at all.
And if it really was as good as some people said it was, then obviously it would be more readily available.
But when you talk to different people, you get different answers about the effects of pornography both on the youth and adults and how much of it should really be in our country and the world.
We asked ourselves the question, is porn good or bad for society?
And we started out by going out to University of Southern California, also known as USC, one of the top universities in the state of California, to see what students thought about the topic of pornography.
Does anybody want to talk about porn?
Ladies, do you want to chat with us, your thoughts on the porn industry?
On one side, there's an argument, right, that it's basically, like, there's a feminist argument that it's freeing and girls sexually express themselves.
They take control of their bodies.
They can have sex for pleasure, right?
It gives people that power.
It's the sexual liberation from the 1960s and 70s.
On the other hand, people say that it brings immorality and corruption and comes into children's lives too early.
So I'm wondering where you stand on that argument.
unidentified
I think it's kind of, I mean, it's kind of both.
I mean, there's different, I've never watched personally, but I think there's different types, I guess.
I think it just depends on how you use it or how you talk about it and how you portray it.
I think it can be very, I think it can be degrading, especially in how in pop culture, how it's used.
This last generation or the last couple of generations have been consuming a lot of pornography and it's probably not good for a lot of like our relationships and how we view the world.
Net positive or net negative for society, not just you?
unidentified
Net positive.
Net positive.
I feel like it kind of like distracts like your relationship with like a higher being, like God in my point of view.
Like when you get like the, when you're like completely like reliant on something, like some form of like, I don't know, in this case, like adult media, like I feel like you aren't like really focused on what's important in life.
I used to look at a lot of porn when I was younger.
A lot of it, actually.
I mean, I wouldn't say in terms of a worldly standard in a sense, you know, like I wasn't sneaking into bathrooms at school to touch my pee pee and look at a woman's titties.
But I mean, I looked at it pretty often on my PlayStation Portable.
Remember those?
There's one said that when we invent new technology, people either find out how to have sex with it or look for sex on it.
Now, I'm not a fan of pornography any longer because I found it to be more hurtful in my sex life, personal relationships, and walk with God than it was actually helpful.
But I might be the odd one out because it seems that people, including college students, are consuming porn at an increasing rate.
And in fact, it may be that porn is influencing the sexuality of our youth in ways that we had not previously understood.
When you go and you type in porn on Google, Pornhub's the first website that pops up on most devices.
Now, it has suggested searches, which change a little bit from device to device that we looked at.
But for the most part, the top five searches that are suggested were gay porn, cam girls, porn stars, and lesbians.
I don't remember that the fifth one was because it changed a lot.
There's only about like one to three percent of people that are gay, but they're suggesting gay and lesbian porn, which are both homosexual acts, as two out of the top five.
Why do you think that gay and lesbian porn is so popular if only a small percentage of the population is actually gay?
unidentified
I think people are probably trying to understand themselves better, maybe.
Maybe they're like curious.
I think we're all a little curious.
So we're like, oh, I wonder what that would look like.
Do you feel like porn influences people's sexuality during development?
unidentified
Oh.
I think that's a good question.
I would like to look at the research more because, I mean, yeah, if you're looking at porn at a young age, especially with like Gen Z, they've been growing up with devices.
So they've like, I mean, humans are curious creatures, right?
So easily, like, they have more access to this information.
So it'd be cool to look at like different parts of the brain developmentally to see like, yeah, how that would affect sexual identity as a whole, like on the spectrum.
So there is like, especially with like Gen Z, maybe even millennials, people are watching more and more porn where it's, it's overstimulating us, like both physically and mentally, where I know like some people have problems,
like as you were talking about the induced erectile dysfunction, because they're, when they do have like a sexual act and they do like perform sex, they don't get the same pleasurable experience as it was in porn because in porn they're searching for things that they want or they fantasize about.
And then when it's in the real world, they don't get that same pleasurable like hit of dopamine, I guess.
Have you ever experienced that where you've gotten into a real-world sexual experience that has let you down because it's not as intense as pornography?
Did you stop after that or did you continue to consume?
unidentified
No, I didn't stop.
Someone introduced it to me at a younger age then.
You know like you're hanging out with friends and stuff and like oh let's see what's on TV and then you go like scroll down to like the channels that are like 480 that are adults.
I sat down with somebody who had previously both worked in a strip club and also of course did what is called cam modeling which is sort of taking money for doing sexual favors online to talk a little bit about the story of how you get into porn and what its effect it has on your mind growing up.
Because after all, it seems that a lot of people who are making the porn are young girls.
unidentified
I was 18 years old.
One night I was just hanging out with my friend from high school and she had just gotten into FIDEM, the Fashion Institute, which was a crazy amount of money.
She didn't know how to pay for it.
We were just talking about like ways to make money, like how to make money fast.
So we decided to interview at Deja Vu.
We would see people who worked in that industry and we would see their lifestyles.
We would see the cars they drove.
We would see that they had kids and this is what they did for work.
So we assumed if they could do it, we could do it.
They said, show up, just walk upstairs.
The boss is here.
He'd love to talk to you.
So he talked to us both and we were instantly hired.
And from then, we were just making crazy money.
I was making, at the time, I think it was $10 an hour.
At 18, I had an incredible amount of money in my savings.
At an 18-year-old, I had up to $50,000.
It was insane.
I think it's not the right way to do it.
I don't believe that it's right.
I think, according to the Bible, I think it's you don't feel genuine about it.
You don't feel like your gut or your conscience.
You don't feel like you're doing a good thing.
So in that sense, I don't think it was a great experience.
I think the guilt in knowing that I wasn't doing something genuine and right caught up to me.
And I think it's true.
You give what you get, you reap what you sow, what you give out into the world comes back to you.
I wasn't doing genuine work.
I wasn't doing right by God.
I was sinning.
And my life kept giving me problems.
And for the longest time, I didn't get it.
And I was kind of okay with it because I would just make the money back the next day.
But over time, I realized I can save so much more on my own and do something that is right and not have that bad feeling in me that I know that I can do something good and still make a lot of money.
No, but one thing that I read on a recent article I thought was really good where it said, rather than the government restricting porn, consumer groups and moral groups should pressure internet providers to offer packages that would restrict porn to individual houses.
Yeah, on devices.
I mean, and what's wrong with that?
What's wrong with giving people individual liberty and power to choose what's allowed in their home?
You know what I mean?
So obviously porn is hurting more than it's helping.
I mean, despite what people say, it appears that the harm that it's doing on the people who are watching and creating it is more bad than it is good.
So what do we do about it?
unidentified
One of the main issues why people get so hooked up and locked up into it is because they feel they actually believe a lie and that is you're hooked.
You're hooked now.
You're like, you know, hook line and sinker.
You're like a heroin addict now.
You'll never get off this, but that's a lie.
I've learned in every aspect of this thing we call sin, sin has lost its grip on us.
And when a person comes to a place where they understand that The grip of sin is broken, then you realize you don't have to give into it.
You don't have to believe the lie that you're hooked and you can't get out.
How do you really feel after watching?
How do you really feel about yourself?
Do you feel good?
Because I know in the moment it's like an instant high, but try, you know, getting that satisfaction in a better way.
Try building an actual relationship with someone and having those intimate moments with those special people where that you are going to experience those moments with them and feel amazing after and feel loved and feel happy that you made someone else feel loved.
Porn is addicting and we know that because after all it activates the same pathways in your brain as cocaine.
But of course not everyone you know has done cocaine in their life but most people statistically that you meet will have looked at porn.
So if this problem is as big as cocaine in terms of its effect on the body, but it's even bigger in the terms of those who are affected by it, that means that the solution has to be one that is well thought out.
And the government outright banning something doesn't seem to work.
But changing the way that we look at the situation, understanding that there needs to be more regulation, better restrictions, and less access for children may be the start to a solution.
