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[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (30 children)

I saw a guy doing moral outrage that men sometimes goon it crazy style in public.

It's pixels. It's thousands of pixels arranged on a screen that make your imagination see a real person.

When people act like it's indecent I'm always like, "oh no the witch pixels have formed the horny configuration"

Just taking the piss btw, read what you want in public it's a damn book. Stores still sell brown paper bags to use as covers, right?

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[–] endless_nameless@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Porn is just pixels so you should have no problem with me watching on the subway with my laptop chuddy

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 18 points 2 weeks ago

Masturbating in public is just vibrating atoms moving together, like everything else. If you dont like watching me crank my hog to Sonic hentai, then maybe you dont respect physics.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel like I know how Diogenese would rebut that logic.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh no, the cynical philosopher has formed the horny configuration?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah, he'd probably just fuck a dog in the public square and laugh and say that all human morality is an absurd construct used to enslave the minds of the uncritical masses

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, basically this.

I think he'd also use the extreme liberty of the argument "words can't hurt you, you puritain prudes" to find out how committed to that argument people really were. And I don't think it would take long.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

People in here comparing looking at porn images in public as if it's comparable to a smutty book. I dunno, man. It would take effort to read someone else's book in order to know what it's even saying. But pulling up a pornographic image doesn't take any work to comprehend. One requires hovering over someone's shoulder, getting in their space, and actively trying to figure out what they're reading. The other requires no more than a glance around.

As far as being appropriate in public, they really can't be compared.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think part of it is that the idea of viewing content that arouses you in public is a more horrifying idea for men than for women. Women can be aroused without anyone knowing, whereas the same is not generally true for men. So for men it seems more absurd for someone to be intentionally arousing themselves in public

It is, in essence, the same as viewing porn in public if somehow no one else could easily see it. The underlying point is that its still sexual content

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Some of those book covers, though.

[–] sh__@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe it has to do with the other commenters point. If you took the polarizer off your screen and put it in your glasses so only you could see it, I still think it would be weird to watch porn in public. It is like a social norms thing for me about not intentionally getting yourself aroused in public.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is fucking stupid. The moral outrage at smut is also stupid, but this is a monumentally idiotic way to argue that point. The Turner Diaries are also 'just letters,' as are the bible, the CIA's 'enhanced interrogation techniques' manual, the 'Letter From a Birmingham Jail,' Romeo & Juliet, Anti-Oedipus, and your friend's suicide note.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Downvoting your comment only supports your argument. Hilarious.

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[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's just four colours of dots arranged to make you imagine Juicy Jugs.

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Once I tried to determine the least amount of pixels in a grid that would undeniably be considered lewd. 3x3 pixels can sort of contain a penis, but 2x2 pixels? Idk. But undeniably? Probably more. There must be a minimum number of pixels where the image would be clearly "inappropriate".

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Probably somewhere in the range from 8x8 to 16x16. Favicons are 16x16 I think, and that's enough for porn sites to show boobs or something.

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[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

this can be applied to anything

theyre guns theyre a hump of firey metal you need to regulate metal? hahahahahahahaaaaha

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Are you really going to call me a terrorist just because I want to shoot some neutrons at a cluster of enriched uranium in a populated area? Seriously?

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Dogshit argument, I refuse to even evaluate if I agree with the conclusion

[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 weeks ago

When my grandma died, she had like a hundred of those books stashed around the house. Also, vodka in Maalox bottles. It was the first time I found out that grandmas can be freaks too lol

[–] erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

any decent witch should know that intent is just as important as the method of casting the spell

[–] NightFantom@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, this meme is a bit too reductionist to my taste.

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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 weeks ago

She reads romance novels, someone else look at porn. My thought has always been “you prefer words, they prefer pictures, but fundamentally it’s no different”

[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

you can read whatever you want and I'm not going to judge you but personally my frame of mind when horny is not something I want to experience in public

with this in mind, by extension I understand the viewpoint of "people should not have that frame of mind in public"

that being said I'm not gonna police anyone, and I also don't care if you're rock hard or gooping down there cause of something you're reading. I would just prefer not to be

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's fair. I've personally done some outside play and you do have to be very careful with it. The thrill of possibly getting caught is fun, getting caught ain't.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Reminds me of this book series called the Laundry Files. It is a unique mix between Men in Black, Lovecraftian Eldritch and Cosmic Horror, and The Office. In it, magic, monsters, interdimensional beings, eldritch gods, etc. are all real, a constant threat, and kept entirely hidden from the public by secret government organizations made up mostly of conscripted engineers, mathematicians, physicists, etc. who unwittingly discovered some deeper aspect of the universe.

See, math and algorithms describe the rules and logic of the universe, and since the universe is actually filled with the occult, sometimes that math actually taps into aspects of the universe they weren't expecting. Some can generate apparent magical effects. Some touch into realms whose inhabitants want released or don't want to be bothered. Some algorithms have the capability of waking the great old ones that will destroy the world.

So those people who get too close to such discoveries, they are quickly taken into custody, made to understand the secret nature and apocalyptic danger of the universe that they have been unknowningly dabbling with, conscripted into service of the highly bureaucratic Laundry Files to help protect the world from it, and bound with magical wards to prevent them from speaking of any of it with anyone outside of the organization.

Applied mathematics and computer science are the magic spells of this universe. The increasing amount of compute in the world is pulling us ever close to the end of the universe. It's a problem. But also, Susan in finance won't approve a new coffe maker in the break room and a Succubus is your new supervisor. That's the vibe this series brings. I love it.

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[–] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The cover shows a man embracing a woman!

steamy

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oh shit, are we doing mspaintadventures reactions now?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

I feel the same way about people putting nsfw warnings on text posts

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

Like i agree but the argument they present is so bad it almost makes you dissagree 💀

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