Has the porn industry and Hollywood brainwashed us?

This makes me think of the movie: Don Jon written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

 

I think TV has probably has the most, along with Hollywood, and to a lesser degree, the porn industry. All of them promote various ideal standards of beauty, and then show them linked to material rewards: to be attractive is typically to also be wealthy, and to be able to buy things.

People compare themselves to the 'ideal' images shown, and then, as most of us come up short, that opens the door for the advertising world to sell us back our eroded self esteem in the form of 1,001 products, from beauty cremes to sports cars.

So I see it as a link between advertising, industry and tv/films, with the latter just being one component.

There's a reason they show us these ideals, and it's so they can sell us things to make us feel better about not living up to them.

 

I think it has very much

 

This. Nailed it.

Rule #6 in ruling the world. You give the people something to aspire to be, but that they never can be, thus enslaving them to the cycle of desire and disappointment.

 

Nah. I think they cater to the opinions of the populace for the most part, not the other way around. They make what they think people will like, even if it appeals to an imaginary reality where everyone is smoking hot.

I think the effect has backfired on me though. I've had enough of airbrushed, tanned bodies and prefer my SOs to be cute and approachable looking.

 

hell yea, look at what ppl ~8000 years ago whacked it off to

http://i.imgur.com/pr2OGZt.jpg

reality

then ppl started painting shit and it got dumber and dumber and now look what's happened

 

Also people put no importance on sex anymore now sex is just called getting off or a way to get off . this generation is just a hook up generation which sex is seen as a hand shake or like saying hello

 

Probably

 

to be fair i think people have been doin it a lot since the beginning of doin it, they just hid it after religious morality became widespread. it's one of the few pleasures i imagine people had in eras of dying a lot and getting sick all the time and starving and working and generally just not having things that great, apart from drinking and hangin out

 

I agree but it seems like most people think it doesn't mean anything anymore .

 

u just gotta think like for some people it doesn't, it's just a thing that feels really nice, and for others it is a personal bonding thing, u just gotta find a person that feels the same way you do and it can seem hard but they are out there!!! C:

 

I agree with this to an extent. Things like sex apps concern me(was almost going to name one on accident, not going to give it pub.). It's not that I'm anti sex; it's just that people need to value it more. I could never be one to sleep with 30-40 people, yet you hear about these people who do, both straight and gay. I am not saying that we should restrict sex or anything, but people sometimes forget the adage that "when you sleep with one person, you sleep with all their partners too."

I am glad that when I did mess around in my teens it was only with 1 person. On rare occasion, being ugly is better than being dead. What I mean is if I were better looking, I would have had more partners and more risk for HIV/STD's. The sex drive was definitely there.

 

Nah.
Beauty ideals have always existed in all ages of civilisation, and media portrayal is mostly a symptom of them rather than a cause - though of course their will be some feedback and perpetuation because of it.

The ideal seems to be what the general population doesn't have. Currently that is slim and athletic; during times of depression it was fat and rosy (female-targeted adverts during and around the wars were all for weight gain products that ridiculed thin people, for example).

 

I'm not anti sex either but it's still sad how people talk about sex now days

 

would you excuse me a moment....

anyway...I think they brainwashed a society that LET themselves be brainwashed. At some point we have to take personal accountability into consideration. Did they MAKE me watch porn? nope

Did they MAKE me watch TMZ and E! and think about how all women MUST look like the Hiltons? Nope

We let this happen...and IMO that is point. blank. period.

but again...IMO

 

You know that you're watching porn too much if:
1. You think most of African Americans are top.
2. Most of Asians are bottom.
3. You can seduce a straight guy.
4. You look at someone's abs before actually knowing them.
5. You just got to have sex with someone who looks like a model of GQ.

 

Porn makes the world better, it makes life as a super mega virgin so much easier.

 

I get what you mean. I like diverse porn with diverse kinks. That's just me. I don't go for that old boring Hollywood crap it's just too fake for me. I want real people with real reactions and definitely not the gay for pay crap.