Comment to 'Beginnings-6: Impact of College days'
  • Aniroodh Sivaraman ,

    If this below is true, then there are questions for further clarification.

    • The availability of porn was natural 

    It is only recent, not even 100 years ago of human life that porn visual media became available. For that matter within my life time of 70+ years, it was not available until recently. I do not recall it being available in the early 1070s except as stag films and then as movies in only certain theatres in red light districts.

    I was in Trinidad in the late 1960s and once saw some nudity in a Bridget Bardo movie and that was considered to be a rare display of sexuality. The availability of porn in a person's home through internet media is a recent event. How is that natural?

    Just one hundred or two hundred years ago, someone may endure an entire life time and not see adult genitals even people who were sexually involved may rare see the genitals of a partner.

    It seems to me that the availability of porn is unnatural. It is forced down people's throat today but it was not available previously. Humanity spent perhaps millions of years, or say thousands, and did not have that as something nature. What was natural was not to see genitals in a sexual way. Consider too that even aboriginees today, who are nude in the forest, do not regard exposed genitals as sexually inviting necessarily and they do not make it a habit to be sexually engaged as modern people do.

    What about the higher mammals?

    Are they becoming sexually aroused continuously because they have no clothing to cover their nudity?

    I feel that the inSelf yogis need to study the situation deeply and use the conclusions to help overcome the difficulty of this availability.

    It may be that the 

    • The availability of porn is unnatural 

    but once it is available, the compulsion to view it is natural because the human psyche is not designed with an effective resistance to it. The genetic brake or clutch which the animals are endowed with, where they are not generally aroused by nudity of their own kind, seems to be lacking in humans. That may be the issue.

    • Agreed!

      This is true

      It may be that the 

      • The availability of porn is unnatural 

      but once it is available, the compulsion to view it is natural because the human psyche is not designed with effective resistance to it. The genetic brake or clutch which the animals are endowed with, where they are not generally aroused by the nudity of their own kind, seems to be lacking in humans. That may be the issue.

      Genetic brake is lacking.

      Also seeing naked genitals is not the only porn. There are 2 types of porn, soft porn and hard porn.

      Soft porn is nothing naked, just superficial. Hard porn is where naked reproductive organs are displayed in an animal fashion. 

      These days, this soft porn is spread everywhere, in movies, youtube and ads. With cumulative exposure to soft porn intentionally or unintentionally, one will be curious or gravitate to see hard porn. If addicted to hard porn, soft porn can be a gear down but eventually, that will add pressure to gear up to hard porn. So, it is an endless loop. 

      Internet, globalization, and video technology have opened the doors to the

      1. the variety of available
        1. Serbian man would have never seen an Indian-bodied person in his vicinity and vice versa
        2. Now, all the doors are opened and who knows which variety or flavor of the physical body one would be attracted
        3. The wonders of the sexual world are multiplying and overwhelming. There will never a saturation in this domain. 
        4. Back in the day, for an adult movie, the actresses would be limited or restricted to one region, now they can import or even do software tricks like a deep fake to morph faces to delight the audiences
      2. Also, in every movie, tittok, youtube, vlog, or ad, sexual energy has gradually increased to exponential levels now. 
        1. In youtube, I was watching a 1980s toothpaste ad, it had no sexuality and there was no need for it.
        2. Since the 2000s, voluptuous actresses with glamorous clothes and selling toothpaste showing their teeth.
        3. They are not only pushing the "Red Colored" toothpaste product into psychic senses of the people but also borrowing the additional sexual energy of the actor and shoved into the audience's psyche. Now, some percentage of the population is just going to buy the product due to the pressure of that sexual energy flavor.
        4. Now, if I have watched 4-5 such ads with such underlying sexual energy between a movie, it adds up eventually to hard porn.
      3. The human body is also changing both biologically and psychically, generation after generation
        1. External sexual pressures and frustration are increasing generation after generation and the body's internal psychic and biological resistance is also weakening
        2. If similar nearby kundalini procures certain sexual tastes and enjoys them, the other kundalinis psychically sense them and crave the same, this creates a mass craving for certain sexual favors, which we call a viral sensation and the market for such energy shoots up and they proliferate until next sensation comes!

      These challenges and the velocity of change were not there in the 1970s-80s, from the 90s it has increased. So, it may be fair to say the availability of soft porn is increasing and hard porn is just looking behind the doors watching for its turn.

      Once 3D technology comes, I will run away and hide. I feel bad for the coming generations because the first reference and flavor the next generation of teenagers gonna taste is going to be the strongest and etched hard in their psyche. They may not even come to have sexual relationships with actual humans when they feel it is not as addictive or potent as they see in digital media and choose to just live with the gadgets, which is already happening now. 

      • Why feel bad for those who are behind you when the fact is that it is unlikely that you will be liberated, and hence you will be the next generation of humans after those descendants of yourself and others. You will have to face a worse fate even. My parents may have regretted my fate; feeling that I was subjected to perverse influences way beyond what they had to face, but then when the same parents will get the next body as my grandchildren, they will face an even worse fate.

        May as well keep your sympathy for your future fate!

        You have none to spare, really!