The NSFW thread

Admit it, you clicked on this just to see what was NSFW.

Well, sorry to disappoint (or not), but I was thinking about the psychology of NSFW.

I had a discussion with a few of my friends about people on t3h intrawebz clicking on things just because they aren't 'safe for work'. No other reason or motivation. That got me to thinking: why is there such a fascination with taboo subjects, especially on the internet? Despite songs and slogans to the contrary, the internet is not solely for porn, yet it is probably a good guess that more than 50% of the internet is used for NSFW purposes.

Why do we want what we can't have? Why do we want what we shouldn't want? Just by labeling something NSFW will guarantee that more people will look at it, despite the actual content. Note: I'm not limiting the NSFW label to just porn, I include the ultraviolent and anything else you could care to name that falls under NSFW.

Thoughts?

Tis a question that has plagued mankind for eons.
I believe we want what we cant have for that exact reason...we cant have it. We long for something that is unattainable because of the limitation itself and that is big enough drive to browse the web for NSFW things, because the web lets us view the unattainable. It gets us as close as we can get to things that most likely would never exist or occur in our lifetime.

Now as for viewing things we "shouldn't"; that is so much more simple.
We are human, we like things, we have fetishes, uncanny interests and desires. The web lets people who have the same train of though connect and cater to that eachother.
Its not that we view things because we shouldn't, we view things because we like them and the only reason its "bad" or "taboo" is because a majority of the population finds it repulsive.

Don't forget the human need to bend or break the rules.

NSFW has its roots in a deeper cultural opinion. The opinion that the human body, or rather certian parts of it, should be concealed unless engaging in something intimate. This, in turn, is part of a wider opinion that anything sexual is "bad" or "taboo". The driving force behind opinions such as this, undoubtibly, is religion. In Greek and Roman mythology, religion and culture, the human body and its sexuality was celebrated and even had a goddess dedicated to the topic, Aphrodite and Venus. Sporting events were in the nude, in order for observers to admire the perfect masterpiece of the gods that was the human body in action. Aphrodite had her own holiday, Aphrodisia, where having sexual intercourse with her preistess' was the preferred method of worshiping her (I don't know if Venus had her own equivalent holiday, I would imagine she did). Then when Rome fell, so did the belief that the human body was something to be admired and it slowly became the "taboo" topic it is today. This is also when the modern religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc) began their ascension to dominance, changing how we looked at everything.

*Takes a deep breath*

What I'm trying to say is that NSFW only exists because the religious climate has placed certain things outside the circle of morality. NSFW and XXX exist because, deep down, we as humans are programmed to admire our own form, because we are programmed to admire things of beauty and complexity, in both of which the human body exceeds anything man made.

That's some infomation I didn't know, I found that rather intresting

Heres a thought
Man has five sexual parnters and is considered to be a strong example to be admired (stud)
Woman has five sexual parnters and is considered to be a hussie to be cast out (s###)

WTF ?!?!?

I think that sort of thinking is starting to be thrown out, by intellectuals at least.

Yeah, but what percentage of humanity can be considered intellectual (or even sentient)?

Teasealot wrote:Yeah, but what percentage of humanity can be considered intellectual (or even sentient)?

Very little. Which reminds me of a quote.

"Think about the intelligence of the average person. Now realize that half of the people out there are dumber than that."

Another Dwarf quote re: IQ
"I am Holly the ships computer, with an IQ of 6000, the same as 6000 PE teachers"

I've know people with the IQ of a moldy lemon, worryingly, these people where still at UNI when I had to bow up for medical reason, If I ever see them as nurses and I'm a patient, I'm DEMANDING another nurse

Blackwolf wrote:I've know people with the IQ of a moldy lemon, worryingly, these people where still at UNI when I had to bow up for medical reason, If I ever see them as nurses and I'm a patient, I'm DEMANDING another nurse

Are we talking about the same person that missed her boyfriend HOLDING a cameraphone filming her during a certain sex act, and the one who claimed that one of her taste buds fell out? I heard she was moving to America.

Yes, sadly we are