It has to be porn? I mean, there is full of pretty pictures of woman mostly everywhere on Internet and is not porn. Sometimes erotic pictures too.
I mean, that makes sense.. However I don't think statues facilitate a ton of males jerking off for hours a day though. Porn is a honeypot for energy - that's what makes it different - it is designed to harvest someone's sexual attention. Just like concerts and big sporting events it is designed to direct the collective energies of a bunch of people that it is sapping out of them. It has bad intentions and bad effects on humanity. Lust serves a purpose, I'm sure, but much like any addiction or vice it easily spirals out of control and inhibits your consciousness. Porn is like a curse upon humanity - because it was literally, from it's inception and mass commercialization, designed to be. It does so much damage to humanity, and I dare say, much more harm than good.
I could write an essay here, and maybe I will come back later and do that, of all the negative effects porn has on us.. some of which some of us in this thread may not even have considered and are not aware of. These are very real effects too and not just hair-splitting, speculative, theoretical arguments.
On the topic of good effects or uses it has.. sure, maybe there are some.. I wont try to quantify them - my stance on the issue is clear here already, so I wont waste time trying to argue about this. I think habitually watching and thinking about porn is about as useful as having a cigarette smoking or alcohol drinking habit. You may be gaining pleasure from it and it may somehow ease some of your struggles in life and blanket things but it is ultimately not your friend and is doing you harm and you don't really need it and are better off without it. Much like doing heroin, porn is not something most people can regulate in their lives. It's a powerful attractive force because it produces pleasure in the brain without having to do any work to get it.
Even if you have faith that porn can be a non-destructive, mostly non negative thing - the reality is that it right now isn't among humanity and in my mind probably will never be. Most humans are not enlightened enough to handle it.. maybe we can compare this situation to drugs and alcohol being given to the native americans, and how they handled it? Or like giving matches to children.
On a final note here I would like to say that, myself included, none of us that are arguing our viewpoint that porn is primarily a negative thing, are doing this simply to win a debate or tell you that you are wrong. We are not trying to create a fuss here for no reason - we genuinely believe what we are saying and are trying to share wisdom, out of compassion, with our fellow SS. It's not about being right or winning or being the boss, or anything stupid, we are just trying to help you. Yes you all have a right and a duty to think for yourselves and what we hold to be truths may not prove to be such in your own current experience of life. Consider both sides and act carefully.