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Pornography and Sexual Impatience (2017-12-01)

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00:00:00 - 00:15:00

of the video discusses the feminist debate over pornography, pointing to evidence that it is linked to a variety of negative outcomes for women. He argues that pornography can become an addiction and lead to psychological disorders, and recommends that people try to marry young and have children to help reduce the demand for it.

*00:00:00 Discusses the feminist debate over pornography, with radical feminists against and liberal feminists in support. It points to evidence that pornography is linked to a variety of negative outcomes for women, including child abuse, rape, and addiction.

  • *00:05:00 Discusses the psychological effects of pornography, arguing that it can become an addiction and lead to psychological disorders. He also points out that pornography is not just about sexual pleasure, but can also be used as a way to deal with other problems.
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  • 00:15:00 of the video discusses the importance of patience and foreplay in sexual intercourse between a man and woman. He says that pornography often hinders these qualities and can lead to psychological problems. He recommends that people try to marry young and have children to help reduce the demand for pornography.

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0:00:00 there are a lot of fits and involved in
0:00:04 just having a phone or just having a
0:00:06 laptop or computer or just have an
0:00:08 internet how does one as a Muslim and
0:00:11 especially with this our audience a lot
0:00:13 of our audience are like young Muslim
0:00:14 brothers and sisters and how would one
0:00:16 tackle such means because we can't
0:00:18 remove access to devices in Tunisia it's
0:00:21 not possible anymore
0:00:21 yeah yeah oh you mean one of the biggest
0:00:23 ones obviously corruptive forces like I
0:00:27 would call is its put on graffia viously
0:00:29 like right and this is I mean I think we
0:00:33 can tackle this because I haven't really
0:00:34 spoken at about this topic properly but
0:00:39 I think we can tackle this topic in
0:00:42 different ways you can think of the so
0:00:44 sure the kind yeah you can say social
0:00:47 effects of pornography yeah and you can
0:00:49 also think about the psychological
0:00:50 effects so kind of to
0:00:53 dichotomize it make it into two
0:00:55 different things students wonder what
0:00:57 sorry social psychological so social is
0:01:00 more to do with obviously the collective
0:01:01 society societal unit and then obviously
0:01:03 psychological we mean more about the
0:01:06 individual fine so talking about the
0:01:09 social is interesting because actually
0:01:10 the feminists disagree upon this and
0:01:12 feminist discourse is actually splinted
0:01:15 on this issue and this is actually
0:01:17 referred to as the the feminist sex
0:01:19 rules whereas or some other good names
0:01:22 like this where so basically feminists
0:01:24 are disagreeing whether pornography is a
0:01:26 good thing or a bad thing okay
0:01:28 so some of them obviously have been very
0:01:30 very much against it like Andrea forget
0:01:34 her surname but she's she's a radical
0:01:36 feminist against pornography
0:01:37 yeah she's against pornography she's
0:01:39 written but just as a side note I'm
0:01:40 probably gonna be buying in I like a lot
0:01:42 and like because I love America I think
0:01:45 you overestimate how intelligent we are
0:01:47 and so sometimes where you I want to I
0:01:50 want to bring that on that you're doing
0:01:52 the right so go ahead keep lying so
0:01:54 basically like the question is this what
0:01:57 what is it a bit all about it was there
0:01:58 was another book very very famous quote
0:02:00 pornified written by Pamela Paul okay
0:02:03 yeah Pamela Paul she Robocop bonafide
0:02:05 and basically she although there are
0:02:07 some methodological like limitations of
0:02:10 the book because that she goes into
0:02:11 sociology and stuff basically argument
0:02:13 is
0:02:14 pornography from a social sociological
0:02:15 perspective it links to rape it links to
0:02:19 child abuse and when we say child abuse
0:02:21 we're talking about well under the age
0:02:23 of 18 like maybe we talked about in
0:02:24 five-year-olds for your or things like
0:02:26 that
0:02:26 we're talking about incest like people
0:02:31 become more interested in people in
0:02:33 their own family stuff like that and
0:02:35 we're talking about things
0:02:37 commodification object objectification
0:02:39 of women yeah so that's the argument
0:02:41 that the kind of you could say radical
0:02:43 feminists or other feminists who
0:02:45 disagree on other people aren't just
0:02:46 family less right who disagree with the
0:02:48 idea of pornography or not on a society
0:02:52 level put forward and actually there was
0:02:53 some very compelling evidence to do that
0:02:57 in terms of how much pornography is
0:03:00 actually linked to to these things that
0:03:02 we've just mentioned it is linked quite
0:03:04 quite a lot and actually the FBI the
0:03:08 amount of cases that they've had to deal
0:03:09 with in terms of child pornography and
0:03:12 child abuse in the last 10 to 20 years
0:03:15 has been expert it's been like
0:03:17 exponential comparative to what came
0:03:19 before it so that's there is strong
0:03:21 evidence that actually because of there
0:03:23 is a physiological psychological and
0:03:25 neurological reasoning behind it so when
0:03:28 someone watches pornography obviously
0:03:30 dopamine is is to create from the brain
0:03:32 and this is going more to the
0:03:33 physiological side of it and they want
0:03:35 to see more and more hardcore stuff and
0:03:37 Ashley becomes an addiction and this is
0:03:38 actually something which is in society
0:03:39 well established even the NHS now they
0:03:44 have they've labeled it as a kind of
0:03:47 psychological disorder a sex addiction
0:03:49 and underneath that pornography
0:03:50 addiction we know that yeah I think yeah
0:03:53 yeah they definitely did I just the DSM
0:03:55 have which is the manual the DSM manual
0:03:57 is the psychological manual that they
0:04:00 renew every decade or so in which which
0:04:02 kind of lists all the psychological
0:04:03 disorders and this is one of them
0:04:04 so pornography is a first first and
0:04:07 foremost a social problem because it it
0:04:11 does more against the the cause of women
0:04:13 it degenerates them it commodifies is
0:04:15 that it qualifies them objectifies them
0:04:18 but also here you have the problem of
0:04:20 you have the problem now we're going on
0:04:22 to the second strand of psychological
0:04:24 problem before we go in psychology gear
0:04:26 are you a mention about feminists who
0:04:30 were anti-pornography or they're
0:04:34 feminists who are pro you yeah there are
0:04:36 feminists there basically usually
0:04:37 liberal feminists and they argue that
0:04:39 women kind of easy the argument is that
0:04:40 you can do everyone with your body and
0:04:42 and the woman expressing herself in that
0:04:45 way should be okay but however the
0:04:47 counter-argument to that is that the
0:04:48 liberal premise as per John Stuart
0:04:51 Mill's and harm principle and stuff like
0:04:52 that is that you're free to do everyone
0:04:54 so long as you don't have anyone else
0:04:55 but the then the counter argument would
0:04:57 be that actually the pornography
0:04:58 industry by degenerating women biker
0:05:01 modifying them objectifying them is not
0:05:02 is harming his home and it's because
0:05:05 it's moving in the direction of rape is
0:05:06 moving in the direction of child abuse
0:05:07 and that's where it becomes a very
0:05:09 serious argument because when you're
0:05:10 saying okay actually pornography has the
0:05:13 effect of a human on a human being
0:05:14 whereby they actually need now to enact
0:05:16 some of the things that they're doing
0:05:17 and they want to go more and more
0:05:18 hardcore and there's evidence of this
0:05:20 whereby it's more likely to reach
0:05:22 pedophilic proportions and it goes to
0:05:26 that extent then we say okay well hold
0:05:29 on now because now we're talking about
0:05:30 children's rights and now we're talking
0:05:32 about other women's rights and we're
0:05:33 talking about human trafficking because
0:05:34 actually there's a link between
0:05:35 pornography in human trafficking and and
0:05:38 and it enhances this entitlement within
0:05:40 men because men become much more
0:05:42 entitled when it comes to pornography
0:05:44 and it's like okay they they have this
0:05:47 sensuality now they want to just click a
0:05:50 button and beat it alized
0:05:51 straight away what is a slice mean it
0:05:53 just means stimulated okay fine
0:05:57 stimulated click the bottom beat it lies
0:05:59 and and basically that's the job done so
0:06:02 that gives them a sense of entitlement
0:06:04 and from that perspective now they they
0:06:05 feel like they can go left right and
0:06:07 center telling women to do things for
0:06:09 them as if they have the right to do
0:06:10 that hierarchy yeah so from notes from a
0:06:12 sociological perspective even even an
0:06:14 even a feminist and Arden radical
0:06:17 feminists like Andrea forget her name
0:06:19 and Iommi I forget her surname as well
0:06:22 but that isn't it and obviously Pamela
0:06:24 Paul and others they all would all argue
0:06:26 that basically this is a this is a
0:06:29 social ill which does does anything does
0:06:32 does more to degenerate the case of
0:06:34 women and to put them under the feet of
0:06:38 the patriarch of foot of the man okay
0:06:40 make sense yeah and then there's a
0:06:43 second strand as you're saying of the
0:06:45 kind of psychological basis of so this
0:06:47 is where it gets really really
0:06:48 interesting and I want to connect this
0:06:50 to sexual intercourse actually generally
0:06:52 speaking because it's about tableau
0:06:53 topic that often Muslims will go by
0:06:54 enough frankly I feel like Muslims today
0:06:57 talk about a less than the Muslims of
0:06:58 yesterday in a sense I feel like there's
0:07:00 a lot in the Quran asan about sexual
0:07:02 intercourse law in the scholarly works
0:07:04 about sexual intercourse but for
0:07:06 cultural reasons basically like we've
0:07:08 made it a taboo topic that we don't talk
0:07:09 about anymore what about those who say
0:07:11 that like like obviously we know the
0:07:13 impact the the importance of shyness in
0:07:15 Iman and that's that kind of a topic as
0:07:17 seen as to be like a shy of speaking
0:07:19 yeah okay I'm not saying speak about all
0:07:21 the time in the Quran says let in the
0:07:23 light layer stamen that allah salla does
0:07:25 not it's not shy from the truth okay so
0:07:30 here this is where i feel like sometimes
0:07:32 it is healthy to talk about these things
0:07:34 fine so let me first of all most say
0:07:37 like psychological terms there's a lot
0:07:40 of research that's been done like i
0:07:44 forget the studies now but basically the
0:07:45 studies that show that basically say
0:07:50 before pornography is a psychological
0:07:54 disorder when it's actually an addiction
0:07:56 yeah even when it's not an addiction it
0:07:57 can become an addiction quite easily and
0:07:59 that is because when someone watches
0:08:02 that stuff basically they become more
0:08:03 accustomed to it and it becomes more
0:08:06 normal for them so they're one more of a
0:08:07 kick next time so it becomes more more
0:08:09 hardcore so this dopamine rush that they
0:08:12 keep wanting drives them to watch it
0:08:13 more and more this is linked by many
0:08:16 like for examples we are called ian
0:08:17 Koerner um he links this with things
0:08:21 like bipolar disorder anxiety and
0:08:23 depression okay why because actually
0:08:25 when you a lot of people when they feel
0:08:27 basically sad to put in a simple way
0:08:31 when they feel sad they watch
0:08:32 pornography or they feel lazy
0:08:33 it was probably a little bored they
0:08:35 watch pornography so when they watch
0:08:36 that what happens is that becomes like
0:08:38 their recourse their psychological
0:08:40 recourse so instead of dealing with the
0:08:42 anxiety that they may a pre-existing
0:08:44 anxiety that they may have think of as a
0:08:46 crack when a win-win screen yeah yeah
0:08:48 instead of dealing with it cognitively I
0:08:50 thinking about it they just
0:08:51 retreated as quick solutions so think of
0:08:54 it like comfort food make sense so
0:08:56 someone who's who's got problems on his
0:08:59 hands
0:09:00 who's got things that they've got to do
0:09:01 instead of dealing with those things or
0:09:03 thinking about this problem you think
0:09:04 about solutions cognitive and
0:09:05 psychological solutions they just like
0:09:07 eating chocolate and slightly indulging
0:09:10 an ice cream right from that perspective
0:09:12 all that does is it kind of puts a cover
0:09:14 and artificial cover of the problem so
0:09:16 actually what this does it gives one a
0:09:18 very quick short-term kind of comfort
0:09:22 and that's what that's what pornography
0:09:24 does so give someone very very quick and
0:09:26 when we say very quick by the way there
0:09:28 are statistics tell us how quick he is
0:09:29 so for example there's one sexual
0:09:32 progress website with BuzzFeed that done
0:09:35 like a study using Google Analytics and
0:09:40 they've basically been able to track how
0:09:42 many people go into pornography websites
0:09:43 and they said about 30% in the UK in the
0:09:45 UK and the West generally are women in
0:09:47 Brazil there was a higher number of
0:09:48 women in the Muslim world a bit less
0:09:50 number of women anyways the point is
0:09:52 there's a lot going on pornography the
0:09:54 the topics are another interesting like
0:09:56 what they actually research and that
0:09:58 could be another thing we could talk
0:09:58 about but they go on it and basically
0:10:00 when they go on the pornography website
0:10:01 they spend on average watching a video
0:10:03 about six minutes 67 minutes so think
0:10:06 about think of it this way a person a
0:10:08 consumer goes on the progress a website
0:10:09 for about six to seven minutes because
0:10:11 that's enough to get them to almost
0:10:13 climax right so so they've kind of six
0:10:18 seven minutes on average according to
0:10:19 this kind of thing and then after that
0:10:22 they they climax by masturbating usually
0:10:25 and then after that they feel they feel
0:10:27 a sense of relief now six to seven
0:10:29 minutes of pleasure is not going to coat
0:10:32 your problem in life right it's not
0:10:33 gonna help your anxiety in life this is
0:10:35 actually and what's really ironic about
0:10:37 it and this links to another problem
0:10:38 sociological problem which actually
0:10:40 Anala
0:10:41 you know it's lava has a cure for this
0:10:43 like it really is interesting I was
0:10:46 gonna ask next to be only Sue's gonna be
0:10:47 if there are people who have this
0:10:51 addiction and they want to stop it Sarah
0:10:53 what did I do right okay so let me just
0:10:56 quickly finish of what I was saying
0:10:58 about in the problem so this issue and
0:11:00 by the way it's not just anxiety and
0:11:02 bipolar disorder and depression it also
0:11:04 links to some side
0:11:05 which I'm not sure how reliable they are
0:11:07 but I can look into it which talks about
0:11:09 reducing the size of the brain actually
0:11:11 reduces so watching being a porn addict
0:11:14 reduces the side size of the physical
0:11:16 human brain it has really neurologically
0:11:20 rewires your brain watching porn I
0:11:22 realize it's a serious addiction like
0:11:24 you can be addicted to things that
0:11:25 people don't realize they committed for
0:11:26 example sugar people can be addicted to
0:11:28 sugar even from a secular perspective
0:11:29 here I'm talking from a secular
0:11:30 perspective we know spiritually is Haram
0:11:33 I'm not gonna say this because everyone
0:11:34 knows it like okay it's a program is
0:11:35 Haram of course we know it's prohibited
0:11:37 in Islam for so many reasons right so
0:11:39 that's why I'm not going down that route
0:11:40 because everyone has heard this before
0:11:42 you know even as a Christian you would
0:11:45 have her in the Bible it says that
0:11:46 you're looking at a woman lustfully is
0:11:48 like it's like committing adultery with
0:11:50 her you know Jesus so it's well known
0:11:53 like in religious faiths that this is a
0:11:54 bad is a bad thing right Haram
0:11:55 well-known but he was talking like even
0:11:58 from a secular perspective a porn addict
0:12:00 is a depressed anxious
0:12:02 bipolar disorder like it's possible for
0:12:05 a person to have a Bible is in surah
0:12:07 kind of person he's at risk or she's at
0:12:10 risk so that's the that's the issue and
0:12:13 what is even worse than this is and this
0:12:15 is the Iranian that goes back to
0:12:16 discussion we have about feminism is
0:12:18 that 29% and I'll try get you to study
0:12:22 hopefully on my phone something I might
0:12:23 have a note something wonders listen to
0:12:26 this right 29 percent of women who
0:12:30 report like this sociological studies
0:12:32 done in America and one of the
0:12:33 universities yeah and they said over
0:12:36 seventy five percent of men when they
0:12:38 have sexual intercourse they climax but
0:12:40 basically near the climax yeah and 29
0:12:45 less than 29 percent of women climax one
0:12:47 of the issues is this is because men
0:12:49 remember men other majority consumers of
0:12:52 pornography right so men of the majority
0:12:54 was a problem so for that reason they
0:12:56 used to that instant gratification one
0:12:59 of the side effects of pornography is
0:13:01 that actually hinders someone's sexual
0:13:03 life as we know so this action and there
0:13:05 was a study done by like it is this
0:13:07 thing this is organized to include J AMA
0:13:10 yeah JAMA
0:13:11 I don't know how to pronounce it I have
0:13:13 a gamma or de ma and they said that
0:13:16 basically
0:13:18 that watching photography excessively it
0:13:21 does sexual activity so basically when
0:13:23 you watch more of it you become less
0:13:25 pleasured with sex sex because this is
0:13:28 try of straightforward finding right now
0:13:33 how do you compare this and why am i
0:13:34 mentioning this is really interesting
0:13:35 why because the Prophet Mohammed I said
0:13:38 he actually gave us guidance on how to
0:13:40 have sexual intercourse okay now this
0:13:43 might sound a bit taboo a bit weird a
0:13:45 bit whatever but when you consider the
0:13:48 state of affairs in the Western world
0:13:50 because this these studies are kind of
0:13:51 like a microcosm of the Western world
0:13:53 and I'm not saying that every man can't
0:13:55 satisfied like a jury of men kansai
0:13:57 women in the West because that would be
0:14:00 quite fashionable to say that and I
0:14:01 don't think a small-scale sociological
0:14:03 experiment could prove that but what I
0:14:06 am saying is that there's a stress in
0:14:09 Islam because a lot of people you know
0:14:11 they had these says that if a woman
0:14:13 doesn't give her husband sexual
0:14:15 intercourse that the Angels will cut yes
0:14:17 yes okay a lot of people quote down say
0:14:21 well how comes is not an equivalent for
0:14:22 the women yeah they they have not read
0:14:25 the Islamic corpus because actually
0:14:26 there is so many I had he is talking
0:14:28 about the importance of a man pleasuring
0:14:30 the woman okay so for example like
0:14:34 Muslims are given guidance and it's a
0:14:37 discourse of how to pleasure a woman and
0:14:41 some of the guidance is are mentioned by
0:14:42 bloheim Josiah and his is a book his
0:14:44 code zel mad
0:14:46 obviously he wrote a book would burn
0:14:49 every anyways in Mohammed Aziz
0:14:51 old-school scholar and he based on a
0:14:53 hadith some of the things like for
0:14:55 example and a woman the person is a
0:14:59 hadith which invited by Muslim a
0:15:02 database in various Muslim aphid and
0:15:03 that's a hot no hazama
0:15:05 it says that the proper house is a kanay
0:15:07 a masala say he is to suck please read
0:15:10 what they suck the tongue of Aisha or
0:15:12 Delilah so one of the recommended
0:15:14 practices of a man before engaging in
0:15:16 sexual intercourse of a woman is to kiss
0:15:19 her and to basically use his tongue
0:15:22 while she's doing that and I just might
0:15:24 sound a bit how many times have you
0:15:25 heard that have you heard this never
0:15:26 never okay so but is it important it's
0:15:28 important because actually this is the
0:15:30 rights of women these are right
0:15:31 you know what I mean like you say if if
0:15:33 something is up or if it's part of the
0:15:36 region we should be psyched try to
0:15:36 discuss religion itself right it's it's
0:15:39 just it's definitely actually a taboo
0:15:41 subject it's he's definitely weird but
0:15:45 we look women are being oppressed
0:15:48 seriously I think it's appropriate I
0:15:50 think it's good to try and light on
0:15:52 something right he's I'm sure he's a
0:15:53 situation full of people's I think it's
0:15:55 healthy just have a little jab but I'm
0:15:57 not
0:15:58 jab area which is in Cyprus a Muslim I
0:16:01 think both where the promoter said he
0:16:04 said to jabber why don't you marry why
0:16:06 didn't you marry like a virgin so that
0:16:07 she can play with you and you can play
0:16:08 with her so the idea of playing for play
0:16:13 is really really emphasized in in the
0:16:16 Islamic discourse with women like a man
0:16:18 fought like foreplay
0:16:19 kissing using tongue touching this kind
0:16:22 of thing is very very important it's
0:16:24 from the air dev of Jamel it's really
0:16:27 poor
0:16:27 now the thing is will Prague refer
0:16:29 culture what we've discussed kind of
0:16:30 here like is a man is unable to be
0:16:32 patient right because Robert said that
0:16:34 he's used to instant being tittle eyes
0:16:38 instantly he's used to being show that
0:16:45 right so because of that he's got that
0:16:47 entitlement he just wants to literally
0:16:49 finish the job get that he get he wants
0:16:51 to get pleasure for himself it doesn't
0:16:52 really care he is not concerned with
0:16:55 pleasure for his other half in Islam is
0:16:56 Haram okay and one of the major sin and
0:16:59 what in fact doing that consistently may
0:17:02 give a woman a right to divorce a man
0:17:03 okay so basically what I'm trying to say
0:17:06 long story short is that pornography
0:17:07 actually hinders your psychological
0:17:09 well-being the sociological environment
0:17:10 and your sex life so all the things you
0:17:12 want to get from Sirte from from
0:17:14 pornography you end up getting the
0:17:15 opposite of it right from a secular
0:17:17 perspective we're always in reaching
0:17:18 islamia but I'm saying everything that
0:17:19 you want from pornography it's as simple
0:17:22 as this
0:17:22 everything you're seeking in pornography
0:17:24 you end up getting the opposite of it
0:17:26 you want love you want happiness you
0:17:29 want sexual enjoyment you end up getting
0:17:31 anxiety depression and you end up
0:17:33 getting a lack of enjoyment in your sex
0:17:36 life so that's basically the end of it
0:17:38 so first and foremost if anyone is
0:17:40 trying to stop pornography they have to
0:17:43 be acquainted with those facts and they
0:17:45 have
0:17:45 have real reason right to stop and the
0:17:48 reason must be is that it's bad for my
0:17:49 spiritual life obviously you know why
0:17:51 I'm not gonna tell you why it's better
0:17:52 for a spiritual you guys know why it's
0:17:54 bad for your spiritual life is various
0:17:55 psychological health and spirit of
0:17:57 society that's a good that's a good
0:17:59 enough reason to stop anyone from doing
0:18:01 anything in my opinion
0:18:02 agreed you give me yes and you know what
0:18:05 the solution for it is as in the crime
0:18:07 sudden to burn every is sexual
0:18:09 intercourse now this might sound a bit
0:18:14 what are we talking about fiction to
0:18:15 cover you to this it's not really a
0:18:17 solution as well because I'm not saying
0:18:18 but one of the preventative measures one
0:18:20 of the things that we should be aspiring
0:18:21 for as the problem has a sedative not
0:18:23 best he says yeah my shall have all
0:18:27 young people who can who ever can of you
0:18:29 and everybody said whoever can - the
0:18:31 diamond comb yeah whoever can of you get
0:18:35 married let them get married then a car
0:18:37 in Islamic Tamil in Islamic terms is
0:18:41 actually a very easy you know this is a
0:18:43 very easy thing is ever a process