Ross Clarke Articles

Drugs and Porn

You hear a lot in the media about equality movements, drug gangs, Brexit, Trump etc. There‘s two very pervasive issues that never get a mention though. Those two issues are:

1) Widespread drug use which has actually become normalized.

2) The horrors of pornography.

There‘s no point in lying about it; drugs are probably entertaining. Heroin allegedly induces a beautiful feeling. Apparently psychedelics can be inspirational and some say smoking hash is pleasant. Yet there’s no doubt about it; drug use comes with risks and drugs do cause a multitude of problems for users and society as a whole.

I believe that rampant drug use has become so widespread and so widely accepted that it has become normal. This is particularly true of cocaine, especially amongst middle class adults. Cocaine is a curse and I really don’t like the nonchalant normality of it. It’s a bad drug, its often probably mixed with all sorts of crap and it can have terrible side effects. It can destroy the nasal cavity of some users. Depression, surpressed appetite, headaches, ill health, financial debt and criminal activity are all very common side effects of cocaine use. It’s also a very habitual drug in the sense that a lot of people who use it become semi-addicted regular users and they wind up consuming it at almost every social function that they attend.
**(New paragraph) The fact that people are literally snorting cocaine openly in pubs, clubs, buses, taxis and sidewalks is proof of our careless attitude to cocaine. This generation of young people are great for highlighting their little social justice issues so maybe it’s high time that attention be brought to rampant drug use and maybe it’s high time that scruffy drug use becomes “denormalised.” It’s scruffy and unsightly and the nasty side effects need not be glamorized or accepted by society.
**(New Paragraph) There’s nothing glamorous about a cocaine hangover. There’s nothing glamorous about respiratory problems, potential heart problems, unmerciful gangsters, perforated septums, sinus problems, stuffy noses etc. There‘s nothing glamorous about people working full-time all week long only so they can blow all of their disposable income and more on contaminated powder.

**(New Paragraph) Pornography is another pervasive curse that deserves some scrutiny. Women and feminists harp on about equality, sexism and perverted men but I don’t hear them conversing much about pornography. There is nothing more degrading to women than porn. Porn is the most vile insult to women; it is the most demeaning assault on women. Porn pisses on women, it defecates on women, it ejaculates all over their faces, tears their assholes open and makes them lick up cum off the floor. It’s surprising that there isn’t more attention drawn to the sinister evils of porn especially this day in age when we have organizations to help victims of trafficking, prostitutes, sexual assault victims etc.

A notable difference between my generation and the generation of children these days is the internet. As a young child I didn’t have access to the internet, not everybody had a computer and smartphones didn’t exist. Nowadays the internet is ever-present which means everybody has access to all sorts of horrific pornography 24/7. Porn is the first bastion of sex education for many young men. This should worry society. Society should be concerned about the dangers of porn.

Pornography is different for children now compared to twenty years ago. I remember as a young boy porn magazines were popular. Playboy magazines as well as softcore porn and hardcore porn on videotape were once the most common formats for pornography. The hardcore porn of fifteen years ago would now be considered so softcore that it pales in comparison to the extremity of the stuff that’s available today.

A lot of the popular porn now available on websites is very degrading; there is a lot of violent (almost “rapey”) porn available and there is a lot of grossly sadistic and unnatural content online. Many boys and men are regular consumers of porn and therefore they are at risk of becoming porn addicts and also at risk of developing false perceptions and attitudes towards women.

I do believe that this day in age women should really stand together and start making much more noise about the nightmarish terrors of pornography. Sexist topics like the gender pay gap and gender pronoun discrimination are nowhere near as big a threat to women as porn. Porn is a menace to society, it’s dangerous for men and boys and it’s absolutely horrendous in how it dehumanizes women. In my opinion the evils of porn should be meted out more vehemently by the media, it rarely seems to be highlighted in newspapers or on the radio or television.