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In reply to the discussion: Sports Illustrated cover - practically porn? [View all]mythology
(9,527 posts)If you mean appreciating the general form of a human body that is in shape, I'm fine with that if my mom is in the room. If you mean seen with obvious arousal, sure, that would be embarrassing, but that can happen without the picture (thankfully I'm no longer a teenager so that's less of a problem).
I generally speaking avoid porn, but that's mostly because I've found what I've seen to be boring. I haven't thought about it long enough to know if that's because I find it dehumanizing to the people in it (I agree with you that it's worse for the women) or because the act of putting a camera in there means lots of uncomfortable looking positions, and since it's geared towards men it involves very little reciprocity in terms of the woman's pleasure. I have very limited experience with non-heterosexual porn or porn that would be considered artistic as I pretty much gave up on porn so I don't have an opinion of any meaningful sense on those.