Anonymous #2 17w

i feel like the majority of porn is made for the male gaze. it’s typically about control and usually involves a lot of violence. the point isn’t about the build up or the intimacy. it’s very objectifying. for smut, it’s more about the tension and the build about. it’s about being pursued and valued. it involves story telling and humanizing the characters. and, like you said, one obviously has much more impact on real human lives than others.

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Anonymous #3 17w

i disagree. smut has no victims and no long lasting negative impacts on society as a whole. the same cannot be said with porn.

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Anonymous OP 17w

in the literal sense there are more victims of porn and greater societal ramifications. However I still dislike how easy smut can be obtained and how normalized it is in comparison to porn. my little sister was like 10 when she randomly bought a book from a used bookstore and had no idea there were extremely explicit scenes. like downright dirty. and it looked like a kids/teen book too

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Anonymous #3 17w

i mean, you can personally dislike smut but that doesn’t mean it’s comparable to porn when we’re talking about the implications in society. like w any media, you should check for content warnings if you don’t wanna engage w sexual content in books.

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Anonymous OP 17w

kids shouldn’t have to do that! Hope this helps

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Anonymous #3 17w

which means that it falls to their guardians to monitor and filter the content that their engaging w?? i thought that was obvious….

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Anonymous #3 17w

Kids dont! Parents should! Hope this helps

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Anonymous #5 17w

you can compare anything and given that they're both erotic media there's a lot to compare also there's a ton of problematic smut and a ton of problematic people who write it, continuing to propagate their terrible ideas about romance and sexuality through it

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Anonymous #5 17w

you proved my point about the not having a critical thought

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Anonymous OP 17w

Projection is like crack OP. Put the pipe down

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Anonymous OP 17w

It's very clear *you* have a bias that is getting in the way of *your* critical thinking cuz what the fuck do you mean you can't compare written and recorded erotic materials? Sound stupid as shit

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Anonymous #7 17w

did i say smut is completely unproblematic?? OR did i say that the amount of harm done by one is so much more than the other that they cannot be compared? let me walk you through it. obviously they’re comparable as to the *type* of media they are. i am specifically talking about the implications and societal consequences of each. since one is wildly more harmful than the other, they’re not very comparable.

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Anonymous burntelmo 17w

Spoken like a true intellectual

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