> Nepal has banned all pornographic sites in 2018.
Also pay TV channels at the time were full of porn and pretty easy to crack for a horny tech teenager.
And if "your day" was even further back the 60s and 70s were pretty wild with actual in person sex (tbh I wish society hadn't reverted back to prudeness from that but luckily there's plenty of communities that aren't)
Ps banning porn is pretty severe IMO.
Mating was so regulated by culture (mostly religion though) due to the obvious link to the procreation thing, but these days those are no longer coupled so the taboos aren't necessary.
People would be smart to ignore you then.
They don't seem to take care of leaving the planet habitable though, which is IMO a much more urgent problem than any perceived social decline.
Like consent?
The "I do" in the marriage isn't a romantic gesture, it's a legally binding contract for consent to sexual relations.
Society has accidentally rediscovered that marriage is the only way to have sex that isn't technically rape.
Ehhh no.
Simply asking for an explicit yes is fine here too by law. Of course taking into account that this can be revoked at any time and must be obeyed.
And even within marriage it's not legal to force someone to have sex. At least here in Spain it's much more about spending ones life together, shared ownership and parenthood etc than about sex. Of course you wouldn't marry someone you don't ever want to have sex with but it doesn't mean you are obliged to do so. Marital rape is unfortunately a thing.
On the other hand, open marriages are also a thing. I often engage in sexual practices with married people with the spouse even present (and often active with someone else). It's not rape :). Just harmless and fully consensual fun.
Consent is actually a huge thing in the more promiscuous communities these days. Often people even make contracts (though this is more common in BDSM than in the Swinger community)
Ehh, good luck with that in a court of law.
Pornography is utterly deranging, and in such an insidious way, the poor schmuck doesn't even know how damaged and warped he's become, how enslaved. Its production and distribution at the very least should be criminalized, and taboos that shame and stigmatize its consumption should be revived and promoted in the media. Alas, corrupt governments back pornography because of its utility in controlling the populace.
We can have a consent culture and healthy and open sex lives. For example swinger clubs and polyamory are becoming more common again despite explicit consent being totally normal these days. But the other side society of seems to frown more and more on such things.
And I'm not accusing an individual of anything. Just describing society as a whole. In particular people are becoming more and more concerned about what other adults consensually do in the bedroom again. Even though it's none of their business. Like transphobia, homophobia, porn.. 10 years ago people wouldn't pass judgment on those things.
> Alas, corrupt governments back pornography because of its utility in controlling the populace.
So instead of this you advocate... controlling the populace using legal, media and social pressure?:
> Its production and distribution at the very least should be criminalized, and taboos that shame and stigmatize its consumption should be revived and promoted in the media.
I'm sure you know that telling people what to think isn't going to work.