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Teenagers and the Internet

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GrinningFool wrote: post #116
Blahah wrote: post #100

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Whether or not we should worry about it hinges on a lot of uncertainties, including: - Whether some women really do enjoy it. Granted, it's unlikely that most do. Given that some people really do enjoy extreme BDSM, it's not beyond the realms of possibility that some - even many - women enjoy deepthroating. People can consent to whatever sexual activity they want. - Whether children do really form an image of what pe…

On the first point, sure - I conceded in writing that there is likely to be a subset of women who do enjoy it. But I think we can agree that the physical discomfort of it will be a turnoff to most. As to your second point - yes, certainly teenagers can distinguish fantasy from reality. But the major difference here is that it's not portrayed as fantasy. In a movie, everybody knows that the actors get up and walk away…

Yes, there's a strong case for further study. That's why there's an extensive and growing literature on the subject: http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&q=pornography+effe...

Re: Teenagers and the Internet

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Post by lectrick »

GrinningFool wrote: post #63
Blahah wrote: post #42

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Saying it can't be a good thing without even providing a reason is not constructive. It could very easily be a good thing.

My biggest concern is that it shows many things as normal and healthy that aren't. Warning - intimate details lie ahead. As an example - in recent years, this has become increasingly common: women fellating until they gag, almost vomit, drool mucousy streams of saliva all over their partner's genitals, and then slurp it all back up. Most of them look truly miserable while they're doing it. The guys look like they thi…

Tastes (yes, including sexual) are in part culturally-shaped as well as from experience.

For example, I'd bet that a far greater percentage of people of either sex enjoy giving oral 10 years after they started having sex than the first year they had sex. (That is, unless they got married. Ba-dum-pssshh. :) )

So women observe some of this porn, they get it into their heads that it "looks hot", and that makes it hot. Theoretically.

Frankly I'm a little jealous of folks dating 20something women these days.

Re: Teenagers and the Internet

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Post by orf »

mavhc wrote: post #65
orf wrote: post #39

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Free and unlimited access to hardcore pornography of any type when you are in your early teens is relatively new. No generation has been exposed to such a stream of heavily sexualized content before, both online and offline. I mean the porn of 50 years ago seems tame by todays standards. Exposing children to such adult themes before they have even fully developed can't be a good thing.

When you lived in a roundhouse 3000 years ago with all your family in 1 room you didn't see anything sexual?

When you lived in a house 50 years ago with all your family you didn't see much sexual content, no. Not compared to today.

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Post by themstheones »

timje1 wrote: post #114
BWStearns wrote: post #95

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Wait.... so I shouldn't go to that "modeling shoot"? 0_O

Also, don't respond to the job ad for that farm in Ohio.. http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/04/justice/craiglist-killer-d...

Wow... I had only ever used Craig's List for buying and selling goods. I had no idea there were people raping and murdering each other on there. You'd think that the admins would try to put a stop to that.
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