Showing posts with label pornography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pornography. Show all posts

Saturday, April 24, 2021

Is There Manipulation?

Probably. But do women have any sort of moral agency?

Thursday, January 14, 2021

An uncomfortable Truth for Blue Pill Socons

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

How's That Feminism Working out for You?

Replacing patriarchy with the state to provide protection and yet faciliate "freedom" and "autonomy"...

Saturday, October 31, 2020

Too Much White-Knighting

The article makes a good point about disciplining one's imagination and refraining from pornography, but the author indulges in socon white knighting at the end and downplays the culpability of women in the porn industry and of modern liberated women.

Casey Chalk

Friday, March 22, 2019

STRIVE

CWR: “STRIVE” offers men a challenging, unique 21-day detox from porn by Jim Graves
Catholic apologist and anti-pornography crusader Matt Fradd has partnered with Cardinal Studios to release STRIVE: A 21-Day Detox from Porn, a new series which provides men struggling with a porn addiction the tools they need [...]

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Friday, January 25, 2019

Justifying Their Existence

The feminists here repeat the claims that pornography leads to the "objectification" of women and the unequal treatment of women. Women in Japan are free to become spinsters -- porn is not the problem, industrialized mass life is, just as it is in other places where feminism is not a dominant ideology. Japanese women would be fine being objectified by the right man -- but the herbs are not those men. It is good that convenience stores are becoming more "family-friendly" -- it is in their economic interest probably to be so, and the herbs can get their porn elsewhere. But to interpret this as a victory for feminism or egalitarianism? Only ideologues do that, to justify the existence of their jobs.

CNA: Major Japanese convenience stores ban pornography

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Byung-Chul Han

AmConMag: Pornography and the Definition of Power by SCOTT BEAUCHAMP
The reflections of a Korean-German philosopher can help us understand how we’re easily deceived by false freedom.

Friday, December 07, 2018

A New Documentary on the Consequences of Porn Use

Crisis: New Film Documents Porn’s Harmful Effects BY K. V. TURLEY
The film series Brain, Heart, World has just been released. It consists of three episodes each about 30 minutes long. Each episode explores a different realm in which pornography causes [...]

Brain, Heart, World

Saturday, February 17, 2018

Armchair AMOGs

There needs to be a gag order for Catholic pseudo-intellectuals.

An alliance between "conservatives" and "anti-porn" feminists? Ultimately, it would be an anti-porn movement in service of whom? Feminism? What alternative would "conservatives" have to counter it, besides some feminized version of Christianity? The author offers no real solutions to the existential crisis that leads to the increase of porn use among males, nor to the existential crisis of women that is rooted in self-hatred, feminism, and rebellion.

Fighting Porn: The Reviving Cause Social Conservatism Needs By Michael Warren Davis
It isn't a last gasp; it's a new beginning, one that's rallying a new breed of young traditionalists.

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Why?


Saturday, February 11, 2017

Clueless about Women and Misrepresenting Female Porn

Tradcon Catholics...

Fifty Shades of Darker Double Standards by Teresa Tomeo
Surely the same women who were able to bring a half a million of their sisters and supporters together so quickly must be planning another major show of defiance against the latest example of female abuse and misogyny?

50 Shades isn't the glorification of real physical violence, it is a revelation of "normal" female dom/sub fantasies, written by women for women.

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Finally, An Issue That is Getting Some Attention

Romance Porn: More Women are Addicted Than You Think by Lea Z. Singh

Not fully read pill (the promiscuity of women and men is probably not equally distributed): Marian Femininity Before and After “I Do” by Stephanie Gordon

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Quit the Fap

A more accurate title? Art of Manliness: How to Quit Porn (via Byz, TX)

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Thursday, December 05, 2013

Cheap, Insensitive Moralism?

What can a socon post about a 'comedy' made to appeal to modern women and white knights teach us about social conservatism?

What Can Pornography Teach Us About Love? By Michael Bradley

Apple trailer

Is this sort of shaming helpful to betas and nice guys who use pornography? Let us be clear: the use of pornography and its attendant sins are contrary to reason and can become a vice, and heavy use of pornography and subsequent sins can lead to physical and emotional desensitization and other bad effects. But are these effects universal, or for only those who are heavily dependent, the "addicted"? Can pornography lead to unrealistic expectations about relationships and sex? Or is it possible for men to use pornography and be relatively unscathed when it comes to 'managing' their personal lives, treating it more as a relief or as an escape rather than as a substitute for a real relationship?

Often in popular moralism we see the heavy use of consequentialist argumentation to 'scare' people to avoid a certain action. Is this really an effective strategy? Or should we consider the reasons why men might be turning to pornography more (besides being hooked while young through early exposure) and address those as well? This kind of moralizing may seem like one-upmanship by those who've "got theirs" or are on their way to getting married at least.

The disordered desire for venereal gratification is a problem and a form of self-love but might it be possible that the natural psychic separation of sex and emotional intimacy in the male mind prevents many or most men from falling into the psychological pitfalls that conservative moralists always seem to discuss? (Even when men learn to associate sex with emotional intimacy and genuine love, they probably do not experience this association in the same way that women do, who do so 'naturally.')

If St. Paul is correct that it is "better to marry than to burn with passion," then what are conservatives or Christians doing to promote and facilitate early marriage in their communities? Do they acknowledge sex differences and what a healthy masculinity is like, or do they try to diminish it through a misguided ideology like TOB (which can be both sentimental and 'spiritualist' simultaneously)?

TOB lectures: EWTN
Christians Find Help for Porn, Masturbation Addiction Through 'NoFap' Community Started on Reddit by 24-Y-O Web Developer

Related:
Beware: Non-Celibates Writing about Celibacy by James Martin, SJ (via PBlosser)

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Items of Interest, 17 May 2012

The Tactical Virtues of Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor : The Jack Donovan Interview

Thomas Fleming, The Inalienable Right to Porn

BETA NATION


Russell Kirk and Swords of Imagination

Glory Days: A pundit’s rosy view of the Pax Americana by Andrew J. Bacevich

The Reserved Powers of the Tenth Amendment by Marshall DeRosa

The Tyranny of Liberalism

From July 4, 2010: Skoble's DELETING THE STATE, a review on this Fourth of July

Predator Nation: America as a Shining Drone Upon a Hill by Tom Engelhardt
On Staring Death in the Face and Not Noticing

WILLIAM ASTORE, The National Security State Wins (Again)

GARETH PORTER, The Parchin “Stand-Off”

Lawrence Auster on Buchanan: he overreaches in attempting to read the souls of Buchanans and others on the "right"; I don't think he substantiates the claim that he is different from them in articulating goals and being sad (as opposed to being Nero taking glee in the burning of Rome).

Uncommon Knowledge: Thomas Sowell on the Vulgar Pride of Intellectuals


How Ron Paul is Winning

The Devil Is in the Details by Scott P. Richert (a review of Timothy Stanley's bio of PJB) (via Conservative Heritage Times)

Issa to Holder: Waiting for Fast and Furious documents like waiting for godot

Urban Design and Architecture:
KunstlerCast#205: Prominent New Urbanist Authors (mp3)
A CNU Panel on Classic, Current and Critical New Urbanist Writing

The Social Factor in Sustainable Architecture by Marcin Gerwin (EB)

America's Demographic Future:
Aaron Wolfe, Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Honkers
Vox: Game Over

Economics:
Chris Martenson, Get Ready, We're About to Have Another 2008-Style Crisis

John Williams: The Real Unemployment Rate: 22% – Not 8.1%
The coming fiscal cliff: hyperinflation on track for 2014

Fabius Maximus: Is there a dark swan event ahead for the American economy?

Neo-Feudalism and the Iron Fist

Robb Wolf, The Paleo diet, Sustainability and Economic Growth

Kevin Carson Awarded C4SS’s Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory

FOOD: Tackling the Oldest Environmental Problem: Agriculture and Its Impact on Soil by Wes Jackson

The Next Money: As the Big Economies Falter, Micro-Currencies Rise

Festival of Transition:
In the shadow of the City: A walk through the history of the Corporation
What if... we cancelled the apocalypse
What if… we left the oil in the ground?
What if… land grabbing was banned?


Relocalization:
Jason Peters, Why I Am Not an Environmentalist
False Idyll by J.B. MacKinnon
Seeing only nurture in nature is missing half the point

6 Ideas for Sensible Homes
Small, supportive, affordable, recycled—and you can build your own.

On construction, cake, and local economic regeneration: why we should start with the materials by Rob Hopkins (EB)

Resilience or death: Preparing our farms for the end of agriculture (…as we know it) by Dan Allen

The commons law project: A vision of green governance by David Bollier (EB)

Back to the Land for the Occupy Movement by Jeff Conant (EB)

Food Authors, Writers and Academics Urge UC Berkeley to “Embrace the Gill Tract Farm, Not Police it”

How Small Groups Can Power Big Change by Sarah Byrnes
Progressive social movements don’t often take inspiration from conservative megachurches. But their lessons about organizational structure may be worth a second look.

Why such a lack of common sense about dogs? by Gene Logsdon (EB)

Shannon Hayes, Gainful Unemployment

Energy:
Jeffrey Brown responds to "U.S. energy independence is no longer just a pipe dream"

Translating "Peeking at Peak Oil" by Michael Lardelli (EB)

Commentary: Major oil companies on peak oil by Robert L. Hirsch

Clean Energy as Culture War

Free Energy Does Not Occur in Nature

Catholic:
Mexican Catholics Fight for Christ in Greater Glory

Fr. Uwe Michael Lang on Vernacular Translations

James Matthew Wilson, Misanthropy or Hymenopteraphilia? E.O. Wilson is Ant(i)-Gracehoper

التاسعة للسيدة في صلاة السحر لأَحد الأَعمى


Diet and Health:
MDA: Why We're Missing Out on Real Life

Bring Back Butter... and Cheese, Red Meat and Whole Milk! How Our Low-Fat Obsession May Harm Our Health, Says Nutritionist

Even Art of Manliness has joined the barefoot movement.
(Better than What to Wear on the First Date?)

NPR: Breasts Bigger and More Vulnerable to Toxins
The Thinking Housewife: Walking the Walk, and Breast Cancer Lies

Interview with ‘Wheat Belly’ Author Dr. William Davis

Adam Farrah, The Paleo Dieter's Missing Link

Latest in Paleo

Biological Clock Cannot Be Rewound

Music:
The Timless Traveled Treasures of Jordi Savall

Lonesome River Band


Lindsey Stirling - " Crystallize " Dubstep Violin (music video HD)


Nora Jane Struthers & The Bootleggers


Movies:
Eve Tushnet on Damsels in Distress: Guys and Ladies

TV:
There's A New Sheriff In Town: Dennis Quaid
By Joe Leydon




Julianne Hough on DWTS


Misc:
Me262 at the ILA2006 in Berlin (original sound)

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Items of Interest, 24 April 2012

What Must Leaders Know to Wield the “Five Swords of Imagination”? by Barbara J. Elliott

Ron Paul attacks CISPA in urgent call to oppose 'Big Brother' bill

New Law Makes Protesting Near the President Illegal; Judge Napolitano Calls It an ‘Assault on Free Speech’

FBI: Hundres of Thousands May Lose Internet in July

Libertarianism, Conservatism, and Egalitarianism by Carson Holloway


Hawaiian Libertarian: This is Your Brain, This is Your Brain on Porn

Obama on soldiers who posed with Afghan corpses: ‘Reprehensible’ conduct merits probe

Are we really more civilized than that? Or have we thrown our soldiers into an insane situation?

Damien Perrotin, Party Politics (EB)

Wendell Berry, American Hero by Mark Bittman
Wendell Berry in D.C. in Two Venues - Wendell Berry at National Cathedral

Economics:
The Exodus of American Manufacturing
Money and wealth: How to heal the disconnect by David Boyle (EB)


Farming:
WATCH: Joel Salatin on Building Resilience into Agriculture
The Value of Our Produce

Peak Oil and Energy:
A Snarky Guide to Peak Oil
Deepwater what?

Catholic:
The First Mass of a Young Ordinariate Priest: Fr. James Bradley
Pope: Women Have Key Role in Building Up Church in America
The statement is a little too facile and brief? Unless "Catholic feminism" has prevailed and dominates the thinking of Uhmerican Catholics on the roles of women.

Feminism:
"Marriage is For Losers"
But how many marriage counselors and therapists are biased towards women? What about respect for the man as a man and his authority as husband and father?
Anna Quindlen Over 50 and Having Plenty of Cake
Jack Donovan, Men in Uncomfortable Shoes

Diet and Health:
MovNat Will Change You: Commentary by Instructor Kellen Milad
Mark Sisson in South Africa
Let's Put an End to Dietary Tribalism

Movies:
Trailer - My S.O. Has Depression (Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite)


Music:
Steep Canyon Rangers:


Instrument Interview #3: Carolina Chocolate Drops


Katherine Jenkins & Mark Ballas - Samba - Week 6