Submitted 1 month ago by falseWhite@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
If humanity suddenly vanished and all that would be left of our existence is all the videos ever filmed. How much of that would be porn? What would other civilizations think of us? Fucking perverts, aren’t we?
Most people have a biological imperative to get their rocks off.
We live in a society that is becoming more and more isolated by the day.
Put those two things together and you’re gonna end up with a literal fuckload of porn.
To be fair, many of the earliest statues and such found were penises, or women with a chunky badonkadonk.
I don’t think this is anything new. As humans, we may just like big butts. Why lie?
Amen. Praise be to our savior, Sir Mix-a-lot.
A lot of anaconda want some all the time!
Also, those pieces usually are explained as objects for fertility. And as a mammal that is pregnant for 9 months with 1 child, then gives birth and almost dies, and then, the child has to survive for at least 14-20 years to be able to reproduce, I can certainly understand why people would have wanted to try to ensure fertility + surviving pregnancy, childbirth, and childhood.
Archeologists have a very hard time calling a dildo a dildo, no matter how obviously ribbed for the user’s pleasure it might be.
Humans are intelligent and sexual animals. It makes sense that sex would be commoditified in some fashion.
There’s nothing wrong with enjoying sex, and by extension sexually themed things like porn. Just as long as it doesn’t become an addiction.
For masturbation, mostly.
Humanity is relatively unique compared to earth’s other animals in that the species’ females can conceive all year (minus the time when they have their period), and while it’s very hard to study this, it doesn’t seem like sex is particularly fun in most species, especially for females. This does help humans somewhat with forging long-lasting social bonds, which is definitely something that’s core to the human species, but it’s by no means the only way that a species can be instinctually inclined to form long-lasting social bonds. So to a hypothetical alien civilization, humans probably seem to spend a lot of energy on sex.
So to a hypothetical alien civilization, humans probably seem to spend a lot of energy on sex.
I mean, it’s nothing when compared to the effort most (male) birds dedicate to it…
Also, flowering plants, especially the ones with edible fruit.
Also, any fungi that produce mushrooms.
You produce a lot of what people pay for and use. Like why do we produce so much soda?
Isn’t soda kind of an induced demand thing, at least in part? In some places soda is cheaper than water.
yes…and people like and pay for porn
Because there are only 3 things we are “programmed” to do:
Eat
Fight
Fuck
Feed. The three f’s.
What irritates me about the joke common to the 3 Fs is setting it up to say “fucking” and then saying “mating” when “fornicating” is right there.
Now think about how much of human behavior and social transactions are based on sex. Think on how much time people think, directly or indirectly about sex. How many actions are indirectly motivated by sex, from silly things like conversation starters, to terrible things like sexual crimes. All the energy put into fashion, body modifications, sports, and many other activities in indirect sexual motivation. Think about how many feelings of sadness or even depressions are aggravated by, or even originated from, lack of sex. Think about the religious institutions and the changes they did to history by socially reprehending sex. Also think of the historical events indirectly influenced by sex. You could spend the entire day and even a research career on all that, and at some point one would ask what is NOT related to sex in this bizarre human world. It’s no wonder asexuals have so much trouble navigating around.
Listen: Our endless output of porn is the reason why aliens continue to leave us alone! They don’t want to mess up this good thing that just keeps coming.
And cumming…and cumming…and cumming…
As someone that works with data archival its really hard to keep videos around most media storage would be gone in a few decades.
Perhaps other civilizations would have a healthier outlook on sex and wouldn’t view it as perverse to produce porn, rather as natural.
I’m pretty sure any species that reproduces sexually would be considered a bunch of perverts. You ever been around a cat in heat? Fucking perverts.
Sex is fundamental to what a human is. And its mysterious and fascinatitng. Of course we document in extensively
There’s more porn than any other form of video and the porn industry is one of the worst industries. It’s abusive and exploitative.
Yet I have never in my life paid for porn. How are they making their money?
There’s more porn than any other form of video
Source?
I’d like to know too but I believe they’re right.
What industry isn’t abusive and exploitative these days?
I kept thinking about it and was like, “What about… No. Wait! No, not that one either…”
I’d argue, that porn is a luxury. You don’t need porn to survive, nor for a fulfilling life.
So why feed an exploitive industry when you don’t have to? Isn’t that causing unnecessary harm?
That’s not to criticize the idea of performing erotic scenes to share with other people for sexual pleasure and getting money for it.
Sexually abusive and exploitative?
same way everyone else…by targeting the 10% with 90% if the $.
when you have more $ than you can spend day-to-day, all that’s left is buying “experiences”. porn offers you a way to experience things/kinks you can’t experience irl for whatever reason
More than CCTV? More than TV? More than streaming?
deep down were just animals programmed to procreate
all that pron does not surprise me
I don’t think other civilisations would see it as any different to reality television
It’s ultimately just videos of humans doing human things
An aside: I wonder how much the global population-increase will lower once we get tech like holodecks.
Other civilizations? A whole buttload of alien abduction stories center on anal probes and extracting DNA by sexually assaulting people. Many times, with a grey alien in a wig banging a human.
Aliens are horndogs, too!
I interpret this as a problem statement, so I can think of a few solutions: We accept the dominance of porn culture and launch a quality offensive for porn, or we recognize a lack of asexual culture and launch a quality offensive for ace culture. Or we all pretend that porn doesn’t exist and leave the status quo as it is.
It’s a means of control and money making. You shouldn’t be surprised that’s pretty much the answer to a lot of big questions.
Pretty much my thought.
Consumerism is, therefore content churning is.
Some other intersecting ingredients might be human sexual drive, wiring for novelty, legacy of puritanical mores,
I’d argue the drive has been hijacked and amplified for my reasons above. Gym bros, meat eating and “low T” are all in service to male sex drive. It’s far more sinister than it appears and not the least bit surprising.
Another point that I didn’t see mentioned: some can make a lot of money, or just easier money, compared to getting a real 9-5 type job.
everyone sells their bodies/time, some just know what their time is worth better than others
Because “we” consume that much porn…
there a huge market for NON-illegal porn thats why.
What I want to. Know more is how do we produce do much porn? How have we not run out of women willing to do it yet?
What would other civilizations think of us?
Well, you can’t know about that. Maybe there’s a sex planet full of slutty aliens out there.
Better question would be why do we make so many people.
Actually, recent trends have shown a dramatic decrease in birth. This is why in the last 10 years republicans are trying to break roe v wade. They want more future workers to exploit.
Greed.
We lack self control. And we contidict our self and make the entire act taboo.
It is a complete mess
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Porn is great. We are sexual beings. Your shame is unwarranted.
Also what makes you think aliens aren’t interested in our fertility rituals. As captain kirk taught us, knocking boots with aliens is awesome.
I hope they are on their way to us now for an interstellar booty call. Better yet, I hope they are covertly here now on a genetic exchange program.
teft@piefed.social 1 month ago
Found Riker’s account.
Zorque@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pretty sure Picard (and possibly Data) got more than Riker did. Especially post-beard.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
No one:
Lemmy users: How can I mention Linux or Star Trek?
Funny, but wholesome…
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No one nothing?
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
…and porn.
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not reading this as OP shaming porn. The “fucking perverts, aren’t we?” reads (to me) as them lumping themselves in with the rest of us.
Yes, we’re indeed fucking perverts, and it’s fucking great!
falseWhite@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes, I am definitely in that group. I watch porn. I just had this realisation of how much porn there is to choose from vs how much choice there on Netflix. And all that porn is basically free.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Perhaps. But the assumption that Aliens would find us perverted implies that this attitude is the normal one when prudism is the freakshow. Every media technology from cave painting to the internet and everything in between has been co-opted if not dominated by porn.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Porn and sex work itself aren’t bad, and are natural extensions of our human condition.
The shameful parts are the people who create sex trafficking rings, child/incest porn, and porn that imitates child/incest porn. There’s probably more shameful uses of porn, as we are also a degenerate society in a lot of respects.
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 1 month ago
Or just all of the other cases of the porn industry hurting people (especially women)
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The species as a whole is sexual; individuals probably are, but sometimes not.
Sorry, just wanted to leave a little space for asexual people like me.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Groovy baby!
spiffy_spaceman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I upvoted solely because of edit 2
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dear aliens hiding amongst us: …Hey.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
extends stalk eyes
Well… hello~.
What brings a not shark suited man like you to an M class, naught point seven development scale planet like this?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
As we say over in the schlocky scif movies quadrant …
… “earth girls are easy”.
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Aliens will be as interested in our sex lives as we are interested in the sex lives of spawning fish. There may be detached scientific curiosity, but no alien boners from human porn.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
May I introduce you to rule 34? As interested in Spawning fish? Mermaids my dude. Plus that Japanese Octopus stuff. There is no limit to the depths of our desires.
I’m sure the Japanese have a word for fish porn. I just don’t want to know what it is.