“We will investigate what it means to watch porn with integrity”

An actual workshop being offered at San Francisco’s Center for Sex & Culture:

This workshop is about:
How we watch porn
Integrity
Increased awareness and self-honesty
Giving you tools, inspired by my own insights, to test through your own experience.

That’s the teacher up on the left, Zachary. A different Zachary!

Zachary Schlosser:

Through presentation, participation, meditation, group discussion, and movement, we will investigate what it means to watch porn with integrity, and investigate all the obstacles currently standing in our way. The course operates on the assumption that it is possible for men to relate to porn in a healthy way, in a way that actually heals, and contributes to greater long-term well being for them and their sexual partners, rather than diminishes it. Of course there may also be men for whom watching porn is really not in their deepest interests, and is not a part of their most inclusive desires. And for those men for whom it is integrity for porn to be part of their lives, how they engage with it will be different for every individual, and for every individual over time. Every man is different, and as this course is about integrity, you won’t know what’s most in integrity for you until you do the investigation.

Let me stop him right there, because whenever it takes someone this many words to explain one thing (the course will explore integrity as it relates to porn and sexuality), chances are the person doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Would you go? Would you pay? Because it’s not free:

Workshop operates on a sliding scale: total cost $100 – $150. Participants can “sample” the first class for free, but payment must be recieved [sic] before or at the beginning of the second class.

AND:

Here are some sample topics we’ll be covering over the ten-weeks (all still subject to alteration and elaboration):

Feeling the Body – The place to start and end with honesty
Letting Porn satisfy what it satisfies, and Appreciating it as it happens
Masturbating how we want to, not how we think we ought to
Watching Porn as Healing
Watching Porn as a Doorway to Universal Devotion and Friendship
Porn, Integrity, and Awakening

10 weeks to learn how to masturbate how you want to! Had you not figured that out yet?

What kind of person could be convinced to spend 10 weeks of their life on these things? 10 weeks of their life with the same kind of people who have the same concerns about integrity and healing. Kill me now. If there is a door that exists between porn and friendship, I don’t want to open it. My God, keep that door shut! I don’t want to think about my friends when I watch porn. I don’t want to think about anything. I just want to watch the porn. If anything, I want to feel a little guilt and shame while I watch the porn, not integrity. Leave me alone!

 

12 thoughts on ““We will investigate what it means to watch porn with integrity””

  1. To watch porn with integrity? That means to never download stolen content or rip scenes and share them with all your friends? Cause no one would want to do that—— right?

    1. See, a workshop about issues like that and porn-related labor issues would be FASCINATING. This workshop seems to be like, “Porn makes people uncomfortable, so here’s how to be a good lockstep liberal and watch nekkid people too.”

  2. I’m actually intrigued by the premise. The text sounds a little precious, though. And this child here – am I getting old or does it seem like he’s a little youthful to be leading a discussion on ethical porn consumption?

  3. Zachary barely looks old enough to rent porn, let alone have inspirational insights about it.

    I wonder what kind of credentials he claims to teach this course.

    1. Well sure. But this person, this workshop leader, is trying to sell me on his course and it’s absurd. So, yes…leave me alone!

  4. I guess that saying is true “Those who can’t do, teach.”

    So would this course be transferable to a real college & university? I would love to see the looks on the peoples faces in the admissions offices when they see this on paper lol

    1. Haha, wouldn’t Masturbation 101 be the highlight of anyones college transcript?

      Teacher looks kind of cute, I’d happily make some porn with him never mind watching it.

      1. That reminds me there is a Human Sexuality psychology class were I went to college. I remember talking to a girl in class about it, and she said it was full of mostly women. Funny thing is she showed me her book and just to be funny I was talking loud enough so the whole room would hear and saying, “oh look there’s chapters about assless chaps, dildos, vibrators and electric probes!” There really was a chapter on that stuff lol

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