Porn Kills?

[WageSlave]

Ah, that's the film with the Wonderful Monica Bellucci and her real-life partner.
Continental Cinema has largely escaped the censor as the assumption is that only educated middle class types watch them, whereas impressionable young working class needs need to be protected from Rambo style movies.
On the whole, there is some logic to that assumption. I can't remember any violent yobs being inspired by Kieslowski's 'Short film about killing'.

[OwlHoot]

There has to be someone to blame. Little Jimmy didn't hang himself in the shed because he's a loser strung out on drugs, Bob didn't rob the post office because he's a lazy drop out...no, it's all the fault of porn, horror films, video games, D&D, etc.

Some continental European films are much worse in terms of sex and violence than anything seen on UK or US TV or general cinemas. For example, I bought a French film called "Irreversible" [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/ ] for a couple of quid in a bargain bin, having no idea what it was about and it was utterly gross. The rape scene went on for several minutes, and some guy is graphically shown having his head bashed in by a fire extinguisher!

So if violent films are to blame, I'd expect the French in particular to be raping and murdering each other by the bushel.

[WageSlave]

Exactly the same thing used to happy with music. Some idiot in Utah hangs himself, happens to have Ozzy on the stereo, and hay ho Ozzy Osbourne is inciting kids to kill themselves.
There has to be someone to blame. Little Jimmy didn't hang himself in the shed because he's a loser strung out on drugs, Bob didn't rob the post office because he's a lazy drop out...no, it's all the fault of porn, horror films, video games, D&D, etc.

[Lucifer Box]

BTW, Do you think Chico plays Doom or SOD?

Neither, I suspect he likes nothing better than a good hard Bible Catch session...

http://www.christiancomputergames.ne...iblegames.html

I scored 13, by the way. How uncanny is that?

Either that, or SimEarth with the evolution option turned off.

[threaded]

Slippery slope

It's the slippery slope to the censored internet.

[Lucifer Box]

Exactly, but as soon as a violent psychopath kills someone and it turns out (unsurprisingly) that they liked playing violent games, all of a sudden it's the game wot dun it and the Daily Mail is off on a crusade to get everything banned. Mind you, the moral minority often have great difficulty in sorting out cause and effect in the right order.

Before we know it, we'll be handing out ASBOs prohibiting people from mowing their lawn in a bikini.

Oh.

[Churchill]

As a kid, I loved watching violent '18 cert' movies and playing violent games. Apart from my nocturnal neighbourhood lurking, I haven't turned into a criminal, and I no longer watch such movies. It was just a stage I went through and grew out of.

Look at the hysteria surround GTA SA. Put a sex scene into a game and suddenly the world is about to end. Yet a woman kicks a granny to death in Scotland over a parking space and the law lets her go.

Hot Coffee? Anyone?

BTW, Do you think Chico plays Doom or SOD?

[WageSlave]

As a kid, I loved watching violent '18 cert' movies and playing violent games. Apart from my nocturnal neighbourhood lurking, I haven't turned into a criminal, and I no longer watch such movies. It was just a stage I went through and grew out of.

Look at the hysteria surround GTA SA. Put a sex scene into a game and suddenly the world is about to end. Yet a woman kicks a granny to death in Scotland over a parking space and the law lets her go.

[Lucifer Box]

Strikes me as much the same as the endless violent video games nonsense. Playing violent games doesn't turn you into a violent psychopath, but violent psychopaths do enjoy playing violent games. It's all @rse about tit you see, but not as much of a deal for the Daily Mail to bang on about.

Perhaps violent porn actually helps defuse some of the borderline cases? Franco, possibly.

[WageSlave]

Jenna who.....?

Jameson (sp?). Lovely stuff Not that I know...but I've heard from other people

[Churchill]

...ahem...not having ever seen any porn, I can only make a guess However, I'd say that individuals who go out and attack women on the basis of their sexual fantasies have problems rooted far deeper than any movie or magazine.

Is someone who watches Hollywood movies and enjoys the 'love scenes' really any better than someone watching the latest Jenna offering?

Jenna who.....?

[WageSlave]

...ahem...not having ever seen any porn, I can only make a guess However, I'd say that individuals who go out and attack women on the basis of their sexual fantasies have problems rooted far deeper than any movie or magazine.

Is someone who watches Hollywood movies and enjoys the 'love scenes' really any better than someone watching the latest Jenna offering?

[Churchill]

abuse whomever you like.

I thought that was the whole nature of the debate...

[Dundeegeorge]

Re the 'crackdown' on violent porn following the murder of a teacher.
Does access to porn unbalance people or are unbalanced people likely to act on their fantasies, or it is just another bs excuse to attack personal freedom?

Discuss, or abuse whomever you like.