Get this.
The objectification and the normalisation of aggression in porn industry is insane and sickening and no one, LITERALLY NO ONE wants to talk about it.
And i will be specifically talking about the explosion of incest-themed and non-consensual content.
theres something called neurological escalation cycle. It talks about how the brain gets trapped in a loop of needing increasingly extreme material to achieve the intense sense of pleasure/gratification, specifically in this case.
Now what happens is, when i talk about the very frequent users/consumers of porn, that over time the same script starts get boring/lame or whatever. Theres not the same excitement/high experienced after sometime as compared to the very first time of encounter.
And porn industries make big money off of others' dopamine spikes.
So when old, basic, standard and maybe respectful scripts became boring, they brought in something that brought the high stakes once again. To get the same chemical "high," broadcasters and algorithms weaponize the ultimate societal taboo that is incest and non-consensual violence because shock value triggers immediate, intense attention.
And something interesting and equally disgusting i found is that the industry frequently uses terms like "step-sister" or "step-brother".
Wait why just sister or brother? Step-father, step-mother, step-daughter/son, or any other relative that sounds okay like niece/cousin/aunt/uncle.
This acts as a legal loophole to bypass laws against depicting actual family abuse, while still delivering the psychological shock value of the incest taboo.
So after knowing what sells very openly on the internet is something like this, I am not shocked when I hear in the news about a 13 year old girl being raped by her step brother.
Now coming to another pernicious factor to the youth's unhealthy mindsets.
Normalised, and sometimes, romanticised, non-con, rape, and aggression in sexual acts.
It is far more serious than I personally could imagine. In two different ways that are interconnected
In pornography, standard scripts that include violence, usually involve an initial, explicit rejection like a "Stop", "No", "This is wrong", which is then forcefully overridden. By the end of the scene, the victim is depicted as enjoying it or succumbing to it...
This explicitly teaches the viewer that the victims/ or any person's consent/opinion/choices are temporary and that eventually "they will love it/get used to it" if continuous force/violence is applied.
And not only this, but it also gives an impression that someone's partner is just an object for gratification of pleasure.
And oh yes, in acts like rape, it doesn't have to be a partner it just has to be another person or perhaps a minor you find roaming around.
And Dark Romance? Yes, the one genre a large chunk of the population-- especially the females are loving these days.
It's a part or this shit. A sick extension of something that has been continuing too long now.
"Romance novels are highly effective at triggering dopamine because they rely heavily on anticipation (the "slow burn," the tension, the buildup). Reading a descriptive, highly emotional story stimulates the brain's reward and imagination circuits just as vividly as real-world or visual experiences."
And the most fucking stupid thing.
People like stalkers, kidnappers, rapists, mafia, old creepy men and traits like toxicity, psychopathy, apathy, coldness is the new romantic.
Assault and coercive control are repackaged as "signs of a male character's dark obsession and ultimate devotion."
And yeah, as a former smut reader, i would like to talk about how these texts are once again only re-defining sex and female partners as a performative act/ object of use respectively.
How so?
With expressions where intimacy is written as a sequence of extreme physical feats, vocalizations, and exaggerated reactions meant to satisfy a spectator, rather than a real-life shared experience.
And obviously the female character has the softest skin known to mankind and is the most reactive person on this earth.
This knowing or unknowingly sets high-ass standards for sex. This trains readers to view sex as an exam to be passed or a show to be put on. It causes deep performance anxiety in real life when real sex does not look like a choreographed script.
Trust me that performance anxiety is something I have seen in my peers around me so I know what I am talking about.
Women are shy petite clumsy modest as always. And aggressiveness, hugeness apparently, villainy and lunacy is the new masculinity.
And oh it just gets worse but let me talk about this some other day.
Now I would like to talk about the adverse effects noted in real life.
A very recent case that would click many of my Indian peers' mind.
Moumita Debnath's assaulter: Sanjay Roy.
Sanjay Roy had been married four times,
His first three wives left him shortly after marriage due to his severe "misconduct" and violent behavior.
His former mother-in-law filed formal police complaints against him for beating and torturing her daughter.
While his fourth wife died due to cancer, the family of his deceased fourth wife revealed that he kicked his 3-month pregnant wife in the stomach, which tragically resulted in the death of their unborn child.
He was a hardcore alcoholic, and his device was found to be filled with numerous, violent pornographic clips, indicating that he was a porn addict.
Just before committing the horrendous act against Moumita, it was found that he consumed a lot of severely aggressive porn material.
See this sick connection?
Another case.
Ted Bundy
Bundy is one of the most thoroughly analyzed serial killers in history. During his execution, he warned the public about the role pornography played in his violent trajectory of actions.
Bundy detailed how he began with soft, mainstream content as a young boy.
Over time, he became desensitized, and standard material lost its effect. He actively sought out harder, more graphic detective magazines and films that fused violence with sexuality.
Bundy explained that the violent media acted as an accelerant, fueling a "living fantasy" that eventually demanded real-world action.
While forensic experts note that pornography alone did not create his underlying psychopathy, they widely agree it served as the ideological blueprint for how his violent impulses manifested.
One more.
Andrei Chikatilo
This nincompoop was a Soviet serial killer convicted of murdering at least 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990. Even this person was heavily addicted to aggressive pornography which eventually led him to be dissatisfied in a normal healthy setting of a relationship. His brain became heavily rewired to associate sexual gratification strictly with violence, severe degradation, and complete dominance over a helpless victim
Arthur Shawcross,
Like the Sanjay Roy case, he used pornography as a "priming tool." It artificially built up his sexual aggression, lowered his empathetic barriers, and provided a mental script.
Once he reached a fever pitch of stimulation, he sought out real-world victims to re-enact the dominance he viewed on screen.
Now talking about general statistics,
"Renowned criminologist and former commander of the NYPD Hostage Negotiation Team, Vernon Geberth, documented in his extensive forensic research that an estimated 80% of violent sexual crime offenders have a history of heavy pornography consumption, often featuring deviant or aggressive material."
I think all of this would be enough to point out a concerning pattern that is being indented in the minds of individuals around us through an industry hungry for money.
I fully understand that some people actually like these kinds of aggressive or rough acts when it is totally okay if a real adult-consensual relationship involved. But that is definitely not a choice or a preference for every single person out there. It becomes deeply messed up when you realize these platforms are pushing non-consensual tags and toxic genres are being heavily commodified by an industry solely to exploit dopamine triggers, which is deeply alarming. It proves that the media we consume is no longer a reflection of genuine human preference, but that of a profit-centered production.
I don't have any kind of hopes with government and the established organisations of the world at this point. The only thing that I and we all can do, which I think would be beneficial, is spreading awareness and boycotting such a system.
Because afterall,
Production stems from demand.
I urge the readers to acknowledge this growing problem, spread awareness, and help find a solution to this adversity.
