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What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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Post by artnep »

douche wrote: post #85
artnep wrote: post #79

The first myth addressed by makelovenotporn.com (mentioned in the article) regards "facials". I wonder how much men's desire to do this comes from watching porn. Any grecian urns with men "dropping loads"?

Does anybody actually want to do this or have it done to them? There are a lot of weird tropes in porn, but this has to be one of the weirdest wide-spread ones. Really, you might as well just squirt super-glue at somebody. Seems like it would make a hell of a mess, and it also makes me think of this joke from Good Will Hunting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6il6tocb4ic

I think the majority of men in my demographic like to do it. And in my experience, about half of the girls are into it, the other half are indifferent.

Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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Post by deftnerd »

PornHub has a great blog at http://www.pornhub.com/insights where they put out all sorts of interesting statistics on viewership, preference of certain search terms, and demographics data. I'm not much of a porn connoisseur, but I love the data they publish!

A recent post specifically talks about the porn consumption habits of Millennials http://www.pornhub.com/insights/millennials-demographics-sta...

Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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Post by devonkim »

facepalm wrote: post #70
noonespecial wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really like that quote. I was thinking, G. K. Chesterton, or maybe C. S. Lewis on a good day, but it actually seems to be from Pope John Paul II! “There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.” --Pope John Paul II

The pope is bound to be a foremost expert on porn and sexual attraction.

It's rumored that the Vatican has the world's largest collection of pornography. I'm sure that was said before the age of the Internet.

Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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Post by cthalupa »

douche wrote: post #85
artnep wrote: post #79

The first myth addressed by makelovenotporn.com (mentioned in the article) regards "facials". I wonder how much men's desire to do this comes from watching porn. Any grecian urns with men "dropping loads"?

Does anybody actually want to do this or have it done to them? There are a lot of weird tropes in porn, but this has to be one of the weirdest wide-spread ones. Really, you might as well just squirt super-glue at somebody. Seems like it would make a hell of a mess, and it also makes me think of this joke from Good Will Hunting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6il6tocb4ic

I've done it a few times, at the request of my girlfriend at the time. I was indifferent to it, personally. She was very much into dom/sub type relationships, so I expect most of the kink for her came from that.

Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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Post by cthalupa »

I'd be curious to see the ratio of people that will watch something considered "extreme" in porn and want to re-enact it vs. those that will watch it but have no interest in being personally involved.

I definitely fall in the latter - most of what I watch is pretty vanilla, but at times, I'll venture into things that are more risque. I'm not at all personally into bondage, for example, and I'm indifferent to anything more than just light roleplaying, but once or twice a month I might pull up a BDSM video and enjoy it.

I doubt that I'm alone in sometimes wanting to watch something I'd not enjoy personally doing.

Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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Post by int_handler »

amelius wrote: post #68
yc1010 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how many problems in the middle east would be solved by bringing em' easy access to porn...

It might as well be the other way around. Perhaps these men already have easy access, and are now frustrated that they cannot find women who can live up to their expectations (the real women are often covered by a burqa, after all). Also, porn is known to be capable of messing up marriages, so I guess it will certainly not solve any problems related to normal family life (which is what we want these men to pursue), a…

    the morals that come with it
You're assuming that all porn is immoral.

Another counterargument to your claim is that porn can provide an alternative to infidelity, which tends to mess up marriages to a greater extent.

Further, some of those societies already have many of these problems, such as objectifying women (which they do to a greater extent such as requiring them to cover their entire bodies), as a direct result of the culture being so closed in terms of sex.

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Post by tsotha »

pjc50 wrote: post #86
yc1010 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how many problems in the middle east would be solved by bringing em' easy access to porn...

It's already there. It was found even in Bin Laden's non-internet-connected compound, remember?

Maybe. Doesn't that strike you as the sort of thing the government would tell everyone, whether or not it's true?

Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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Post by tsotha »

jqm wrote: post #14
reader5000 wrote: post #11

It is very easy to find sexual release with internet porn. More difficult with a real life woman. And therein lies the collapse of western civilization.

When (eventually...they all do) western civilization collapses I highly doubt porn will be the leading cause. I lean more towards it being bankers, lawyers and politicians.

Bankers, lawyers, and politicians have always been corrupt and/or incompetent. People still used to have kids.

Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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Post by elorant »

facepalm wrote: post #69
elorant wrote: post #23

From my point of view online porn looks boring because it objectifies women too much. It’s just so mechanical nowadays. Whenever I happen to view porn from the eighties it looked much more natural. But then again I guess back then porn actors where only a few dozen and they knew each other quite well so this allowed some kind of intimacy to grow between them. Now porn has become a commodity, there are thousands of ac…

Perhaps you can explain to me what "objectification of women" means? Does it mean being attracted to their bodies? So what would be an OK thing to be attracted to - their ability to recite the digits of PI perhaps? To me it seems that the "anti-objectification" campaign only seeks to replace one attractor with another. So maybe less pretty women would prefer to be measured by their IQ? Why is one better than the othe…

It means having sex for a half hour without one kissing the other even once. It also means that women must have at least a dozen plastic surgeries to be considered acceptable by the industry.

Re: What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

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Post by amelius »

int_handler wrote: post #96
amelius wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might as well be the other way around. Perhaps these men already have easy access, and are now frustrated that they cannot find women who can live up to their expectations (the real women are often covered by a burqa, after all). Also, porn is known to be capable of messing up marriages, so I guess it will certainly not solve any problems related to normal family life (which is what we want these men to pursue), a…

the morals that come with it You're assuming that all porn is immoral. Another counterargument to your claim is that porn can provide an alternative to infidelity, which tends to mess up marriages to a greater extent. Further, some of those societies already have many of these problems, such as objectifying women (which they do to a greater extent such as requiring them to cover their entire bodies), as a direct resu…

What is meant is that these men committing war-crimes is immoral.

Also, regardless of the "marriage" argument I made, if these men had normal relationships with women, I think the problems would be much less severe. Porn is working against that, not helping it.

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