Porn Turns Boys Gay
September 22, 2009 1 Comment
Mick // Kids are not as gullible as they used to be. No longer believing that sticky photos of naked ladies will make them go blind, conservatives need a new scare tactic:
Turning gay.
(Video after jump)
Michael Schwartz suggested using the “instinctual” homophobia of pre-pubescent boys to warn them off looking at porn.
And if you tell an 11-year-old boy about that, do you think he’s going to go out and get a copy of Playboy? I’m pretty sure he’ll lose interest. That’s the last thing he wants.
This is no mere scare tactic for Schwartz, but something he actually believes, because his formerly gay friend told him so.
He and I had a conversations about the malady [homosexuality] he had suffered. And one of the things he said to me, that I think is an astonishingly insightful remark — he said, ‘All pornography is homosexual pornography. Because all pornography turns your sexual drive inwards.’ Now think about that.
As he goes on he quietly backtracks, talking about men whose porn addictions are destroying their marriages.
Mack // Will masturbation be next? If porn makes you gay by turning your sexual behaviours inward, then surely masturbating will also make me gay…? Does the the fact that straight people often fantasise about people of the opposite sex while masturbating and while looking at porn have no significance? Surely he is omitting some incredibly important details here…