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No, I don't think it turned him into a monster. I think it fueled a sickness.

Pornography can be purchased by anyone over 18, regardless of their mental health. Pornography serves no good purpose, has not value to our society, to families, or relationships.

While most people that view it don't become monsters, it has hurt many marriages, and caused some people to take fantasies to the next level. For instance my niece's (now ex) husband began with a pornography addiction, and escalated to advertising on Craigslist and meeting up with women for one night stands. Pornography gives an unrealistic expectation and view of sex, that for some men, goes beyond fantasy.

I think Castro was a sick man, I think he had evil within him and pornography was just the vehicle he used to fuel his desires.

I agree that porn is a very bad thing. However, people have the responsibility to stop watching something if they see it is not good. People make choices. I do think porn should come with a warning saying that studies show it can be very damaging to a relationship. Some people watch it thinking it will help spice things up and then regret it later. But as for people like this Castro dude, I think he was just blaming porn to get sympathy. You know, he was trying to avoid the death penalty. People choose what kind of people they are going to be. And there were demented jerks like Castro before porn ever got to be prevalent. So while I agree that porn can and does have a negative effect on people, people still make their own choices.

Stop being silly. Pornography has been around since humans started communicating. For years it was the only profitable business on the internet. If what you are proposing is true we should be inundated with Ariel Castro's.

Fear and ignorance, especially ignorance, is how we lose our freedom to those wishing to shape society to their own strict vision. Fear and ignorance are actively promoted by many believers.

Who knows what caused it but the man is dead now and I personally thank him as I did not want to support him for the rest of his life.

He committed suicide 9-3-2013

Correlation does not prove causation.

Although we do not have the necessary information to prove anything one way or another, do you not think it more likely that his personality caused his addiction to porn, rather than the other way round?

Nope.

P.S. Castro checked out last night. Good riddance.

Nonsense. Availability of pornography inversely correlates with rates of sexual crimes. The more pornography, the less sexual crimes.

And it makes perfect sense why this would be so. Why would someone who's willing to prey on helpless victims go out looking for a victim and risk not finding one when there's plenty of luscious digital babes just a few clicks away?

Religious fundamentalists who want porn removed don't know what rates of sexual violence used to be before porn was widely available.

I feel it helped contribute but I also believe Castro was a sociopath or psychopath.

I believe pornography does fuel many of this type persons. I feel for many pornography is progressive and eventually the milder stuff and even watching normal intercourse does not do it for them and they get into kinkier and then sicker stuff.

Most people are able to keep fantasies fantasies but for some they act out of these fantasies and wind up often in trouble.

I was one into phone sex when I was abstinent and found though at first it all turned me on eventually only maybe 2% of men could turn me on as I got into more kinky things that they were not good at doing (on the phone only ==I am not into this in real life and often abhor in reality fantasies that I might have in my thought life just for self gratification purposes just to be clear).

A few times though I ran into men who took things too far when discussing their "fantasies"...one was quite sadistic with a girl he told me of and what he was into and did to her which I thought pushed the boundaries of decency) --yuk and another into role-playing daddy daughter things who then spoke of thoughts he had about real children he saw in stores and things that freaked me out. I immediately stopped talking to him as I did not want to fuel this guy on who blurred the lines between fantasy and reality. I am sure pornography was involved and the inability to not/maturity to not carry fantasies into reality.

I believe Castro's said after his wife left him it, he got very into pornography and I am sure the level of porn got worst and worst and that type psychopath gets off on women's fear and pain, blames everyone but themselves. have severe power and control issues, lack empathy and are self centered.

I dated a man who I eventually discovered was a psychopath who had similar traits..They are dangerous often hating women.

For Castro, videos and pictures were not enough..he wanted

to control and do whatever he wanted to women and he did.

Yes, I definitely feel pornography contributed but he did not have the will or empathy to not do what he wanted nor control or seek help with his horrible desires. Most men would not to go that extreme by any means but for some, I do think it can play a major role.

Also the fact he got away with it so easy which gave him confidence to do it more than once. Each time he got away with it, he felt invincible to getting caught. For him, it was ;likely a combination of things like the sex abuse he suffered as a kid, his mental workings and mental illness, the porn etc.

Ted Bundy claimed the same thing and I myself experienced porn being quite progressive to the point eventually only the sick stuff turns you on (not in person for me but in thoughts) but I do not act on these thoughts ever nor meet anyone to act them out with and would never hurt anyone but these psychopaths are not like that though not all psychopaths do things like this by any means.

But since the guy was so manipulative and I know they are so adept at it. maybe he is just lying to place the blame elsewhere.

I definitely feel that pornography is changing how men are as far as with women and their expectations as to what is normal and only mild porno should be available imo..it was hard to find sick stuff not that many years ago but now nearly everything can be easily be found on the internet and I feel this is a destructive thing for relationships and society in general. It does depend though on the person viewing it what harm it might do but we should not take that chance nor can we selectively say who can or cannot have access so need to ban all the kinky or sick porn.

I feel if it was all banned and enforced and women refused to sleep with other women's men and all of them held out till marriage, we would have more marriages, more stable families and couples working harder at marriage like they did when I grew up in the 50s but that is not going to happen.

I know plenty people who have looked at porn and still manage not to kidnap or rape anyone.

If you don't like it, don't look at it. Simple as that.

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Porn has been around forever. Crazy people have been around forever. Good people have been around forever.