National Public Radio, which is funded in part by America’s taxpayers, recently decided to sound the alarm about the disturbing trend among young men choosing to abstain from masturbation and viewing pornography.
“Masturbation abstinence is popular online. Doctors and therapists are worried,” reads the pro-degeneracy headline paid for with taxpayer funds. (The outlet received $5.5 million in federal funds through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in 2022.)
The impetus for this cringeworthy headline is a movement, especially among young men, to abstain from watching pornography and masturbating. The well-founded fear for both of these actions is that they sap a user’s physical energy, are damaging to mental health, and provide warped perspectives on sexuality.
But in its article, NPR and its collection of “doctors” and “therapists” attempt to argue that efforts to abstain from masturbation or watching pornography are dangerous and are often rooted in misogyny. NPR also tries to claim that addiction to pornography is not even real.
“Undergirding arguments about porn addiction is that the sex industry, which is made up of mostly, you know, women who are sex workers, that they are the source of temptation and that they are, frankly, ruining men’s lives,” Kelsy Burke, a sociologist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, told the outlet.
It is unsurprising that NPR, in its pro-pornography and anti-discipline crusade, would resort to claiming that attempts to abstain from pornography and masturbation are rooted in misogyny. After all, as a government-funded entity, NPR has a vested interest in promoting a lethargic and compliant populace. And by claiming that abstinence from both actions is rooted in hatred, it can make people feel that they must watch pornography and masturbate, lest they be labeled as misogynists.
But the absurdity of Burke and NPR’s characterization of such abstinence as rooted in misogyny is the reality that the entire pornography industry is undergirded by the idea that the only value a woman can provide is with her body. In fact, the most dehumanizing and sexist comments and attitudes toward women come from regular pornography viewers who have come to see women as objects to be used for their sexual gratification as they leer and ogle at their bodies behind a computer screen. And that is to say nothing about the kind of extreme content that is regularly produced by the pornography industry.
The push to malign sexual and personal discipline is just another aspect of the modern sexual revolution’s effort to shame marriage and sexuality within the traditional family structure while simultaneously promoting widespread sexual pleasure in all other capacities as a necessary and laudable form of self-indulgence.
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The effect of widespread pornography use is that men are less interested in long-term relationships with women, and they become effectively enslaved to their phone or computer screens that offer them the illusion of sexual pleasure on demand.
A man who is addicted to pornography is less productive, less confident, less healthy, and more lethargic than one who is not. And a lethargic and unconfident man is always a more compliant one. NPR, backed by the taxpayer, is counting on that.