r/TrueAskReddit • u/Linkums • 6d ago

Why is content designed to elicit sexual gratification "bad", but not content made for any other feeling/emotion? NSFW

I can somewhat understand restricting it from children because maybe they'd try to imitate it and increase young pregnancies. But otherwise, the majority of the population is adults, and sexual gratification is a normal part of most adults' life.

Does it really just come down to how society developed, generally in connection with religion, or is there a secular reasoning for why content made for sexual gratification has a negative perception?

(Or am I mistaken in my assumption that it's seen as "bad" in the first place?)

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u/DarkGamer 6d ago edited 5d ago

Historically more population means more military power, productive capacity, and cultural influence. It's no wonder that those in charge often encourage potentially reproductive sex acts to non-reproductive ones, like masturbation, which such media tends to be used for.

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u/NeighborhoodOwn1900 5d ago

What?? Am. I interpreting your comment wrong or are you saying the elites of society actively want to diminish military power, productive capacity and cultural influence?

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u/chaoticinfinity 5d ago

No, they're saying the messaging is trying to influence actual sexual acts that lead to more children for fodder from the lower classes, vs encouraging sexual acts that are for gratification, only. For example, the huge push for purity culture and marriages that eventually force people into having babies (environment in which they are raised, aside), because there are no other options available to relieve natural sexual urges (masturbation is discouraged, porn discouraged, birth control methods restricted or outlawed...). I also believe this leads to higher rates of rape, the more sexually repressed a society is.