[aasasd]

I happen to not be afraid of boobs, so ever since my days on Reddit I wish for blocking of random gore instead. This is weirdly pertinent sometimes on DDG's image search.

Edit: to clarify, I'm not afraid of some killing either, thanks to the pop culture of the past seventy years or so. Now, why eye-hurting images of bodily damage pop up on rather innocent searches—that's a haunting mystery. On Reddit, the ‘NSFW’ label is used equally for a vaguely sexually suggestive shape or a close-up more suitable for a surgical journal. As if I didn't get plenty of suggestiveness just from music videos anyway! So my long-standing wish was for an ‘NSFL’ filter instead.

[azalemeth]

I have never understood how acts of love (at best) or reproduction (at the least) are considered in some societies to be dangerous, shocking, and in need of the strictest censorship -- or at the very least, not on prime-time TV. Yet acts of war, killing, maiming, and violence in general are often the mainstay of entertainment.

Sex is part of human nature – and, I would argue, a much bigger and better part of it than violence and aggression. Why do we hide from it?

[Flimm]

If porn needs to be filtered then it needs to be filtered regardless of attitudes towards of depictions of violence, and if it doesn't, it doesn't. We shouldn't choose as a baseline depictions of violence.

Many people say they are negatively affected by porn addiction (whether consumers, or partners of consumers, or parents, or people who feel objectified, even some people in the industry), and they feel strongly about it. Just because sex is a good part of human nature doesn't invalidate that in their eyes. In fact, it is precisely because some consider sex to be good and precious that they want to be much more careful about viewing it or depicting it, and I agree with that.

The number of societies that don't want censored sexuality is near zero. It is not just "some societies". And there are plenty of societies that desire that more than western ones.

[umvi]

Sex is complicated. Sex is not always a beautiful expression of love between committed partners. Sometimes it's a casual pursuit of pleasure. Sometimes it's a whimsical act of exploration.

In many cases sex is the direct cause of much sorrow, misery, and emotional damage. Maybe your partner cheated on you. Maybe you got pregnant and your partner left. Maybe alcohol was involved. Maybe you are lonely and got addicted to pornography. Maybe you didn't use contraceptives and are now seeking (or went and got) an abortion. If you look around in poor communities, you'll find a big source of poverty is... unprotected sex. It turns out, you can pretty much ruin your life as a teenager and guarantee you'll stay in poverty your whole life if you get pregnant and have a baby while you are in middle school/high school.

Unlike war and murder, sex is something most people will participate in (in some form or another). So I would argue that it's more important than ever to consider the types of sexual messages we send in media. Do we want to promote sexual relationships between committed partners or do we want to promote wanton promiscuity? I would argue that whichever you choose will have an impact on some non-negligible % of the future choices of the viewers. To be clear, I think we also need to be careful of depictions of extreme gore/violence as well, but for slightly different reasons.

In general, I'm of the opinion that implicit > explicit for both sex and violence in media, but perhaps there is a time/place for being explicit (i.e. so people understand what really happened during the Holocaust, etc).

[jpxw]

People want to avoid the porn industry because it’s sleazy, predatory, and reduces sex to a commodity.

[rimliu]

And murder is ok?

[bishalb]

You deduced that from his comment?

[mensetmanusman]

Porn is to murder as romance is to self-defence.

[iso947]

For some reason in America half a butt cheek is worthy of a 15+ rating in films, but “general release” films are fine with burnt bodies hanging from trees

[liability]

America doesn't have a '15+' rating, lots of 'PG' movies have butts in them, and what 'G' rated movie has burnt corpses hanging from trees??