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I would bet that there's someone in the world you love and admire who watches this kind of media, though for obvious reasons they haven't told you about it.
yeah just the quality I look for in people I admire ... their passion for hentai
I think you're thinking circularly, that being into weird hentai implies they aren't a valued part of your life and that being a valued part of your life means they're not into weird hentai. I can understand how that might be comforting to you in this moment, but it's not so. One doesn't imply the other, they're largely unrelated.
ETA: The real point of contention here is that you believe the only people who would enjoy this material are people who are traumatized and on the brink of mass murder. I've been avoiding addressing this head on because I struggle to critique this delicately, but I'll be frank with you.
This appears to be to be a failure of imagination combined with some catastrophism. I don't think there's a way to put this delicately, but people are into kinky stuff, and they almost never talk about with people other than their partners. A lot of people have trouble talking to their partners about it.
I know nothing about the proclivities of the vast majority of people in my life - but I don't take that as evidence of the absence of such proclivities.
This is a rather fascinating sort of assertion. I wonder how we, or the people in question, move from one to the other.
Here’s my attitude: wow lots of people love this stuff, apparently, since it’s everywhere. It can’t possibly be that everyone who enjoys tentacle porn is a criminal monster. I wonder what it’s doing for them? It’s driven by curiosity and empathy. You’re not free if you can’t at least explore in your mind without going 100% hardcore psycho aversion what it might be like or for or whatever.
Is this the person you imagined yourself becoming?
By the way, many of the women you were looking at in those Playboy magazines were actually sexually abused; it was a time when women in that industry had basically no protection from that and no recourse when it happened. Nobody listened to them or cared about them. Meanwhile, literally nobody is getting hurt from someone drawing a picture, except your delicate sensibilities.
And GP didn't say "there may be negative side effects", he said it was producing mass shooters at scale (he "suspects" it, anyway).
I really am not convinced that actively pushing this material on kids doesn’t harm them psychologically
For instance, I have heard that some people who have been victims of sexual assault may enjoy depictions of sexual assault in porn, possibly to help them imagine having more control over a situation that made them feel helpless, or to revisit, in a safe way, an extremely unsafe-feeling part of their psyche. Humans are just too complicated to make blanket assertions like "horror movies produce torturers".
I think tentacle porn is repulsive and sick to be clear. Thats not my point though.