Porn & profanity.

[Anita C.]

I'm getting old...I know & accept this. I am SO OVER porn! I've seen enough of it & it's NOT erotic or entertaining, it is just...boring. I'm over profanity too. Shakespeare once said that this is a sign of an impoverished intelect & I agree. If one cannot make a point without resorting to being profane, one might just reconsider increasing their communication skills & vocabulary. I don't want to go off on a rant here but those who cannot construct a thought or communicate a point without using F***, C*** & the like are in dire need of help! I recall when I was in a show & followed a comic whose every other word was f***...I went out & did my set & was devoid of any 4 letter words. I rocked! Afterwards I talked with this comic in question and recalled what Rich Little once said "Blue material & profanity are beneath me. I don't resort to using them because they are cheap. If you cannot be funny without them, you'd better get another job.". He was right on! When one digresses to these cliches, one runs the risk of eliminating a significant number of people who otherwise might pay to see you. I might be wrong here but I don't use 'em & never will. ..I'm good enough that I don't have to. Namaste', Anita C.

[chris100575]

Can't argue with you Anita. I admit that seven years working in an all-male environment has left me with a swearing habit, but I do try and avoid it in mixed company or in front of kids. Chris

[Firefox]

I don't care about porn or swearing. I do find porn boring but I wouldn't want to restrict those who like it. We're subject to some quite petty restrictions on the net in many places, including here. Likewise with swearing. Yes, it is tedious if people do it every other word the same as it's tedious if someone says "you know" or "like" all the time. What about those groups of people who converse this way : "Oh like you know she was like... and I was like "What?" ... like how could she be like that you know like? But if it's not every other word I don't see anything wrong with the odd "fuck" occasionally. It's just an expression of disgust or annoyance or frustration like many other adjectives.

[PJ]

I have witnessed a lot of things in my 53 years on this planet. Yet I still get shocked at seeing pornography and hearing profanity. I prefer to live without either. My choice of friends and activities helps to minimize my exposure to these two elements.

[Bubba136]

I agree with PJ. Profanity and pron have no place in civilized conversation or family gatherings. Just because modern society has become "ghettoized" by rappers, thugs and the holy unwashed setting the tone is no reason for society to follow their lead or allow it to continue and flourish.

[shyguy]

I agree with what is being said here too, pron is just boring, who needs it?? Profanity is something I also use everyday in the working environment, and unfortunately bring home with me. It's not every other word, but still too much, and I'm trying to curb it. However when writing we all have enough time to avoid using swear words at all. There are always other words to use in place of profanity, but in conversation,on the spur of the moment swearwords just jump to the fore. I concur with FF too, especially having daughters who speak like that "well like it was like so like well you know" and that bugs me. BTW I knew I swore too often when my 20 month old recently repeated my "F**k it" back to me when I was having trouble on a diy job. Time to try harder.

[crotchhiboots]

I too have a truckers mouth but I try to use my vocabulary to be concise and to the point. I agree with Bubba that todays society has sunk to using "getto language" because of Hip-Hop and Rap. I still don't know why this "music" is so popular. Porn is always the same old thing. I belive that sensualaty is in the mind and that I don't have to have pictures and moving images to evoke a response. Any thought to put to film and paper can be written about, just be creative and accuret and the message will be put across. See no #%%%^ing swear words.

[Firefox]

We were having some beers today after a golf match and there was somebody in the bar who just kept using "fuck" two or three times every time he spoke. It was annoying but only because he overused it to the extent he wasn't using the english language properly. I don't think I said "fuck" all day but that's only because I was in a mellow type of mood and not particularly annoyed about anything, apart from this guy of course!

[Bubba136]

Hmmm! A bad round of golf can do strange things to a person's faculties! I don't believe you can hold him up as a good example. Especially after a round where he took three or four tripple bogies in a row!!!! :rofl:

[JeffM]

It does raise the question too Bubba as to what expletives you use on the one that got away. Jeff

[BobHH]

Porn gets pretty old after a while, but there is always a new audience for it. Most of it isn't really despicable - it's a natural function - but the ritualized and unrealistic presentation is tiresome and demeaning to men and women both. The women are usually sex objects, and not very capable ones at that! Only rarely is there something honest or realistic. Swearing is also unnecessary, and I agree with the comments already made. Bob

[Laurieheels]

Swearing is something I avoid, but it has a place. Doesn't it come from a more gutteral expression of language, well, in English anyway? I mean, old Norse and Anglo Saxon and Germanic terms which are more gutteral sounds. Sometimes, screaming feels good. And so I think that is wear swearing comes from. A release. Of course, using it casually in every day conversation like some people do is far beyond what it should be. And that's annoying. Porn, well, big yawn there. But I think we are different, since a lot of reports say that porn items are still the most popular on the internet. I think that there is a point of evolution that we are reaching, and for some, they aren't there yet, leaving their primal instics, which are important, to more basic displays such as porn, instead of getting it more in touch with the mental aspects and going for more of an erotic, suggestive type of stimulation. Those are the ones who don't understand things like heel wearing and other things we all seem to enjoy in some way or another. It all depends, then, on where we are mentally, and how we perceive the world. Of course, if people choose to enjoy something, and no one else is hurt, who cares. As much as people are looking for acceptance and understanding here, we do have to decide that even if we dislike porn, others enjoy it and have that right. We may have members here who enjoy pornography, which is fine for them. However, I don't think, from the reaction so far, that anyone would dare to voice such an opinion for fear of being mobbed about it. Until all parents are open minded enough to have talks with their children, the unrealistic pornography that floods places like the internet will flourish, because sometimes, young people are going to feel that it is the place where they are going to find what they need to know.

[TXT-1]

usually when I go up to the farm I tend to come back like with a dirty mouth but other wise I only swear when annoyed or pissed off but I do try to kurb swearing as it dooesn't sound nice. as for porn... it's overrated to the extreme! and I hate it when you go to shoe chat forums and get every idiot post porn trash or wants to talk about your feet! yes I know it's a "adult" place but most of the people in those places must have the mental age of 16! (shakes head) later, TXT-1

[asdf174]

I personally look at porn. But then again, I'm single 24-year-old male that has never had sex so I guess it’s to be expected. I don't swear that much but will occasionally. Don't really mind the occasional use of profanity. But to each there own.

[Stormie]

Porn doesn't appeal to me, but isn't it largely aimed at guys anyway? I swear, but it really depends on my situation. I won't swear in front of children, for example, or in family situations - there's no need for it. But I do use it as a word to add extremity to something (it's 'f-ing freezing out there' carries a bit more weight than 'it's very cold out', for example), or when I'm angry or upset about something and can't vocalise properly I tend to swear more. I don't like hearing young children swearing or when every other word is an obscenity, but the sad truth is that more and more people are getting that way. Swear words are no longer as taboo as they used to be, and a lot of people just view them as a normal word. I remember the word 'crap' being a bit dodgy, and the magazines I used to buy wouldn't print it - by the time I stopped buying them, 'crap' was just used as a replacement for 'rubbish' and there were no qualms about including it. That was a few years back, for all I know more severe profanities may be in there now. Things have changed a lot within my lifetime, and I'm not even out of my teens yet...

[ward]

Well, I do occasonally watch porn, but finding movies that appeal to me is getting difficult. As for profanity I agree with most all of you, it has no place in civilised conversation. I tend to use alternate words such as , darn, drat, rats etc. After raising 3 girls (trying) my temper has cooled down quite a lot. There are times when nothing goes right in the shop and I find a place where there is no one else and let go. It does help relieve the stressful situation. But, in public that language has no place. Highheels forever, ward

[JeffM]

I remember some thing about a guy being arrested for swearing in public and at a policeman, calling him a f...... pig. The magistrate though threw it out of court because he said it was in the dictionary and used in every day language even by school kids. From then on seems it is every where. Girls and boys using it as every day language. Jeff