Is the internet numbing us?

[Carlos Spicy Wiener]

just finished watching a documentary on a porn film called animal farm.


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It was made back in the 70's and became an underground classic because at that time sex with animals was taboo.....The crazy thing about the movie is one comment one of the filmmakers said. He said now a days its nothing and young boys who are finding porn on the internet are seeing this stuff and aren't effected by it, because it's not as shocking as it was back then....I agree I see shit like that and chuckle because I just say wtf! More people are disgusted by 2 girls one cup then a chick blowing a horse.

The internet has numbed a lot of us on what is shocking and whats the next step. I was listening to all these guys from England who saw it and how it made them sick to there stomach. But then I thought the first time I saw 2 girls one cup, I was more of a damn that chick has got issues than that's just not right.

Is the internet making us numb to acts by people because it's in our face everyday and that just one search you find anything your dirty mind can think up.

I remember seeing all of the people being beheaded on the internet, I was mad that these fuckers weren't being taken out, but it didn't stop me from looking at them when they were posted.....We there's thousands of sites, many are popular that shows death, mangled bodies and all kinds of sex acts.

How many of us have had a friend say check this out............and we watch a video of something disgusting and all we say is that we've seen it before, and it's nothing new.


I know in my job I've seen some fucked up things and I know it has made me numb to many things in life, I've seen people with horrible wounds and people gasping for their last breath.......But what is in store for our kids who surf the internet and find theses thing for the first time and it all becomes the norm to them? But then again I'm already fucked up in the head.........

[slickricksdick]

I don't know, it may be more prevalent and more easily accessed now, but I don't think any of this is anything new. I can remember watching lots of "Faces of Death" movies and the like when I was in the Corps before the Internet was very big and when there were only 5 computers on the whole base at Camp Geiger. Our sense of shock as a race has seemed to lessen, but then something happens that makes people's assholes clench up like Janet Jackson showing her nasty titty to the Panthers and Patriots, and there's a call for reform and to clean shit up, but how long does it last?
-SRD

[The Godfather]

I too have seen my share of shit in real life but I would never have thought to have somebody say, "Yeah, I seen some shit like that on the web." with a matter of fact attitude.

[Moose_Thompson]

This reminds me of the Southpark episode when they lose the internet. Randy is looking for porn and says something to the toon of "after you've seen a japanese girl take a shit while blowing a horse you can't exactly go back to Playboy!"

He was right.



He was right.

[n2tattoos.lol]

don't know if this counts, but my hands are numb from all the porn.

[fuzzy_warbles]

Maybe not the internet, per se, but Foetus, in particular.
For me, anyway.
Now I can't click on the "porn gifs" link without getting a visual of a guy getting his scrote sprayed with liquid shit.
:) :wtf::eek::confused: :o
LOLZ

[Cerebus]

I don't think you can blame the internet. The shit is already out there. Those of us who want to see the sick, crazy, WTF!?!? shit were finding it long before the internet was around.

http://www.vsom.com/ Video Search of Miama has been around for close to 30 years. They can find ANYTHING. You name it, they've got a video of it.

In the eighties, we had Psychotronic Video Magazine with it's hundreds of adverts for companies offering gore, gore, and extreme news videos. We also had the mom and pop video stores on every street corner featuring brand new video copies of Faces of Death or Italian horror films where along with the fake death, they would have animal mutilation. Most of these stores also had your porn rooms in the back.

In the seventies, porn was the shit! I remember seeing strip clubs and porn theaters everywhere, I remember one in particular called Todd Theater that shared it's parking lot with a church.

How you raise your kids now a days also is a major part of the problem. Back when I was little, my mom let me see whatever I wanted. My parents would go away for the weekend telling me not to answer the door for anyone. The fridge would be stocked with simple TV Dinners to pop in the stove, Jiffy Pop Popcorn and a dozen or so movies to watch; mostly horror, my mom was cool like that. My earliest movie going experience that I can remember was seeing Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Zombie. Mom was AWESOME!

All this stuff just shows that I, and I think society as a whole here in America, has been brought up already desensitized to violence. Violence is nothing, we've seen it all in movies and on the daily news. Shit almost ten years ago we all woke up seeing people jump to their death from the twin towers. Before that, it was always in another country that things like that happened, now it was happening here. That desensitized us even more. Far more then the internet has, for sure.

Now sex is kinda different. 2 girls one cup isn't 'sexy' and that's why it's made it's way into 'normal society'. The same goes for bestiality. Daniel Radcliffe from Harry Potter was just in Equus where he is not only nekid, but has sexual feeling for horses.

Celebrity sex tapes pop up every few months. Playboy playmates, midgets, sports figures, Paris Hilton... the media jumps on these like Pedobear to a 3 year old. HEY! See that, we even make jokes about pedophilia now. Of course, the internet is responsible for that one. What about Roman Polanski? He drugged a minor and anally raped her and you got people like Johnny Depp defending him. More celebrity shenanigans include Woody Allen who's first wife was 16, went on to date a 17 year old, then later dated and married his adopted daughter. Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year old cousin.

The Super Bowl thing is kind of a head scratcher. My guess is that it was a race thing. If Janet Jackson had been someone else and white, there would not have been as many complaints. Most of the old farts that complain about that kinda stuff are all bible belt, middle America, racist assholes, I'm sure of it.

[el_victorino]

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I agree with you with respect to the notion that there is nothing new under the sun, and that whatever perversions the current generation are out there "thinking up" have been around since the first boner, but what has changed dramatically are 1) the ease with which any perversion is available to view and 2) the age at which people are able to access it. There's a pretty big difference between my at the age of 12 sneaking through my dad's Playboy, Penthouse, Oui, etc. whenever my parents were gone and a 12 year old now being able to watch hardcore porn, bondage, rape, gonzo porn, horse fucking etc. without leaving his computer while his parents are in the other room. I tend to think that the easier it is to find something and the younger you are when you find it, the more you're going to think that whatever it is you find is perfectly normal (in the literal sense of the word.) Yes, I could find Faces of Death when I was a kid, and yes I knew about Tijuana Donkey Shows, but the fact that they were not immediately available, that it took actual work to find them, translated into the understanding that they were uncommon and not a normal part of the average person's viewing habits. This meant that there was an actual thought process that went along with viewing this kind of stuff, and it wasn't nearly as passive an act as clicking on a link to see a woman blowing a horse or a Chechnyen soldier being beheaded. And so, to the extent that that sort of thing has become readily accessible by teens or younger who are still figuring themselves and the world out, yes, we and they are becoming desensitized and the next generation will be even moreso.

[Foetus]

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youre welcome :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyoERSaJubk

[brodiemaxx]

I think I am getting numb due to the internet. I just posted my balls on youtube last night, so it'd be hard to argue otherwise.

[mr.brownfella]

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no it is not...we're numb to most stuff! Anyway due to the vast repetitiveness of things.

:D :D :D

[Cerebus]

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Link or Ban!:p

[brodiemaxx]

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http://www.drunkenstepfather.com/forum/showthread.php?p=518882#post518882

[Cerebus]

Yeah, I found it in that other thread. I wonder how long it'll stay up?

[Stantz]

It can probably be defined by the individiual and their upbringing. I first ventured onto the net about 10 years ago, when the hottest google search was still Gillian Anderson. Back then faces of Death what the epitome of 'fucked up', but these days, a quick glance at the Gore thread raises naught more than a 'meh' and a shrug of the shoulders.

However, how a person reacts to what they see is a different story. I, personally, can distance myself from what I see on the screen as it's in the past. Nothing I can say or do will affect the image or video, I shrug it off and go on with my life. Others can, and will, seek out more, until the internet fails to provide satisfaction, so they find other ways to get their fix.

Three guys one hammer spring to mind, also the recent UK case of 2 boys, one aged 10, the other 11, who beat and sodomised 2 younger boys to within an inch of their lives. The court case hinged heavily on the fact the boys were permitted and encouraged to watch porn, violent movies, and the afore-mentioned Faces of Death videos. As adults, we can put a barrier up between fiction and reality. Young and impressionable minds, not so much.

So, my answer would be 'kinda'. Seeing a pedestrian getting hit by a car on screen would probably illicit a 'holy shit', but when it happened for read a few months ago, I was out of the truck running towards the accident, first aid kit in hand, before the handbrake had fully kicked in...