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‘Porn Kills Love’ billboards all around the Bay Area

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Dalek

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Here’s the deal with all those ‘Porn Kills Love’ billboards around the Bay Area

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By now you may have seen the signs dotting the Bay Area skyline that read,”Porn Kills Love. Fight For Love.”

The slogan is debatable, but the message is clear: You should take a close look at how porn could be changing your relationships.

The Bay Area is ground zero for the billboard campaign, which features roughly 80 signs that will remain up through November. Fight the New Drug, the Salt Lake City group behind the campaign, claims it isn’t religiously affiliated and is not aiming to criminalize pornography, though its founders are themselves Mormons.

“Our goal is not to pass legislation or even attack the industry directly. Our goal is to spark a conversation around the subject using science, facts, and personal accounts,” said Clay Olson, CEO of Fight the New Drug. “Our campaign has been alive and growing since 2008, and we have a huge online presence. This is the first time we have used billboards to spread the message.”
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The group simply calls itself “Fighters” on Twitter, and has built a movement around the hashtag #pornkillslove and a slick website. Organizers say they launched the billboard campaign in the Bay Area to reach trendsetters.

“The Bay Area is a densely populated area filled with influencers and world changers. If we can motivate change there we can change the world,” said Olson. “At this time, we do not have billboards in any other locations.”

Members of the Bay Area pornography community say they aren’t buying the science.

“Every time there is a moral panic around porn you hear the same fears about how it’s changing how we interact and it’s changing the family. It just hasn’t happened,” said Kink.com spokesperson Mike Stabile, who equates the movement with anti-masturbation rhetoric. “They use the same debunked studies over and over again…the science is just not there.”

Stabile points to research which he says contradicts the publications relied on by the Fighters.

“When you actually look at the science from places like UCLA, porn correlates with increased feminism, decreased sex crimes and a more robust sex life,” he said.

Stabile went on to suggests that the campaign is backed by members of the Church of Latter-day Saints and is targeting the Bay Area for its progressiveness on social issues.
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TheSpoiler

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The people who made the fonts are jerking off.
The people who wrote that are jerking off.
The people who put up that sign? Jerking off.
The people who made the website? Jerking off as we speak.
The people who are behind the organization? They go home and beat the shit out of their genitalia.
 
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TimeEffect

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Are they anti-masturbation?

I am sure there is a religious element to this. My super Christian friend is into this movement.
 
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Dandy Crocodile

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Some of my more religious friends post crap from this group all the time on Facebook.
Like...this is the cause they put themselves behind.
 
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Timeaisis

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Stabile went on to suggests that the campaign is backed by members of the Church of Latter-day Saints and is targeting the Bay Area for its progressiveness on social issues.
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They can really just turn that word to mean whatever the hell they want it to these days, huh.
 
Vigilant Walrus

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Our goal is to spark a conversation around the subject using science, facts, and personal accounts
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Well, then bad choice of words in the communication. Saying PORN KILLS LOVE is sensationalist- at best!

We need to have a discussion about porn as a supernormal stimuli. But that is in the context of over-use of porn. I recently heard a psychologist who defined an addiction as "something you do so much, it starts having an affect on other parts of your life".

I feel this campaign is not living up to what it should be.
 
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Red Hood

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Maybe I'm sleepy, but some posts in this thread make me think they're prohibiting jacking off all together, whereas in fact they're just trying to make people more aware of the dangers of watching too much porn. No? I mean, I used to get rock hard by looking at a simple pair of tits, now not so much. Nowadays to get off I need Brazilian shemale midgets spanking each other with spatulas engaging in a jolly co-op threesome.
 
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freeofgreed

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Vigilant Walrus said:
Well, then bad choice of words in the communication. Saying PORN KILLS LOVE is sensationalist- at best!

We need to have a discussion about porn as a supernormal stimuli. But that is in the context of over-use of porn. I recently heard a psychologist who defined an addiction as "something you do so much, it starts having an affect on other parts of your life".

I feel this campaign is not living up to what it should be.
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Not really. The best way to make someone talk about something is to make it controversial as hell.
 
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Kacho

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Red Hood said:
Maybe I'm sleepy, but some posts in this thread make me think they're prohibiting jacking off all together, whereas in fact they're just trying to make people more aware of the dangers of watching too much porn. No? I mean, I used to get rock hard by looking at a simple pair of tits, now not so much. Nowadays to get off I need Brazilian shemale midgets spanking each other with spatulas engaging in a jolly co-op threesome.
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Hyperbole aside there is definitely truth to this.
 
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Armaros

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ReAxion said:
I mean... it passed, so it wasn't a total waste I guess, and they got a continuous stream of money coming in regardless.
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In the long haul, it backfired horribly for them, the general Mormon population basically rebelled because they were playing politics so blatantly.
 
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RDreamer

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Where I live we've got a stretch of about 10 billboards in a row that are about 60/40 adult toy store and Jesus hates porn type ads. It's hilarious.
 
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