#Porn #Society #Sexuality #Influence
Do you think porn influences society and sexuality? This is a question that many individuals, especially those in their late 40s and 50s, are pondering. As societal norms continue to evolve, the impact of pornography on our culture and personal lives cannot be ignored.
### The Problem
With the easy accessibility of adult content online, concerns have been raised about how it shapes our views on relationships, intimacy, and sexuality. The normalization of extreme sexual behaviors depicted in pornographic material has led to worries about its effects on societal values and individual well-being.
### Why It Matters
As we navigate through a world where pornographic content is readily available at our fingertips, it’s crucial to consider how it may be influencing our perceptions of sex, love, and intimacy. From unrealistic body standards to unhealthy relationship dynamics, the impact of porn on society and sexuality is a topic worth exploring.
### Practical Solutions
1. **Education and Awareness**:
– Encourage open conversations about pornography and its effects.
– Teach critical thinking skills to help individuals discern between fantasy and reality.
2. **Healthy Relationships**:
– Prioritize communication, respect, and consent in intimate relationships.
– Seek support from therapists or counselors if porn has negatively impacted your relationship.
3. **Self-Reflection**:
– Reflect on your own boundaries and values regarding pornography.
– Consider the impact of porn on your sexual self-esteem and expectations.
### Real-Life Examples
For Mary, a 49-year-old mother of two, the prevalence of porn in today’s society has raised concerns about what her children may be exposed to online. She’s taken proactive steps to educate her kids about healthy sexual relationships and the dangers of consuming explicit content at a young age.
### Conclusion
While the influence of porn on society and sexuality is a complex issue, it’s essential to address the impact it may have on our values and behaviors. By fostering awareness, promoting healthy relationships, and engaging in self-reflection, we can navigate the digital age with a better understanding of how porn influences our lives.
Next time you come across explicit content online, ask yourself: How does this shape my views on sexuality and relationships? 💭 Let’s continue the conversation and explore the impact of porn on our society and personal lives together.🔍 #Porn #Society #Sexuality 🌟
Yes.
Yes
Yes, and not for the better
Yes, if anyone thinks it doesnt they are *special* and in denial
It’s not an opinion, it’s a fact. Porn influenced society, sexuality, technology, a lot of things…
As someone married to a porn addict, it is so incredibly detrimental. Wildly unrealistic expectations of what a common person should look and act like during sex and he’s unable to feel sexually fulfilled unless it’s through something extremely kinky/loud/over the top.
Ethically, it poses a lot of problems just in general due to the trafficking concerns and the fact that porn skews so young and so incestuous.
Yes, all media affects and influences our thoughts and perceptions of reality. Why do you think Andrew Taint is so dangerous? Ideas spread and we form opinions, judgments, and expectations. In the porn example, many impressionable people ask all the time what sex is supposed to be like or feel intimidated by how they think they should perform. On a darker level viewing some porn may cause objectification where the person viewing porn frequently and casually can subconsciously view other humans as objects to satisfy their desire
Yes, and it is predatory.
I think that like all vices, it lets real problems go untreated. Many people are coping with crippling loneliness using porn due to social factors in and out of their control.
Due to many factors, younger generations are more isolated than ever. Levels of generalized stress and anxiety are higher, and porn is an easy temporary fix. In some people, this prevents them from taking the steps necessary to fix their situation, in others the situation is out of their control so they just want to cope. One example from a friend is closeted homosexual people who are at risk of emotional/physical abuse from their family/community if they pursue a healthy relationship. Porn was the only confirmation that his sexual experience was normal and shared by other people. I think this also speaks to the mainly correlational studies on porn use and brain health, where people who use porn to an extent they aren’t proud of have diminished reward pathways in their brains. Kinda chicken and egg.
From what I’ve seen the only concrete issue that can be attributed specifically to porn is distorted expectations of what sex should be like, due to the performative and extreme nature of content available online. But again, I feel like this is because young people’s first exposure is porn or from overuse, which are broader social issues from lack of proper conversation out of awkwardness/trying to preserve “innocence” and lack of healthy experience. To draw parallels, kids have always copied whatever the main form of media is (eg. Comics, TV, movies, etc.) and grow out of it when interacting with the real world, porn isn’t special in this sense. It is the lack of correct perceptions that can cause problems, and people using sex to act out insecurities by being dominant and masculine.
Thus concludes my TED talk. Honestly just writing my ideas out to see if they make sense to me 🙂
Absolutely. I think that we have a generation of young men who’ve based their ideas on what women want, what women should look like, and how women’s bodies work that are all wrong.
I can’t speak to the effects that it’s had on young women’s beliefs or experiences, I don’t have a daughter, just a son. I don’t have any business speaking to any young women about sex.
Someone else here CAN speak to it’s effects on women.
There is one positive, however. Now that anyone can see any type of the spectrum of sexuality portrayed online, I think that people who may not be 100% straight or 100% gay feel more freedom to be who they are and not box themselves into one thing forever no matter what, no matter their feelings. I’m speaking ONLY of consenting adults.
I think it has way overcomplicated and warped our relationship to sex, and (by and large) for the worse. I think it has especially made men feel like a slow, simple, affectionate approach is like..unadvanced/immature; meanwhile it’s all that a lot of us want.
…also I point to it for popularizing anal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes absolutely. Fight The New Drug is a great resource that explains how.
Yes, however I think things getting “wilder” is more about social media and the Internet than porn specifically.
Consider this, furry culture dates back to the 70s/80s (at least), so do some other sexual subcultures like swinging and BDSM. This was before all the porn and “wild” content in the world was available for free at home.
But how often did you see furries in the 90s? How many people publicly talked about how their relationship was open? Imagine trying to find another furry at that time without completely outing and embarrassing yourself.
These people are and were a minority. Most people aren’t furries, most people are monogamous.
Then the Internet comes along and if before you were the one furry in your school and thought no one else feels this way, suddenly you can find tons of people online who feel the same.
If you want to be non-monogamous you can just say that on your dating profile and find the minority who feel the same.
The wildness was already there, but the Internet let the secret out. Wanna be a furry? Wanna eat ass? Wanna get pegged? Whatever fetish you were hiding, other people have it too.
And when you know everyone else has their perversions, you can feel more open about sharing and trying yours.
Definitely.Firstly,it shifts the window of what people consider “attractive”.The majority of porn videos promote perfect bodies,which are [unrealistic.It](http://unrealistic.It) can seriously hurt one’s self esteem.Secondly,porn works like a drug,and we all know that drugs aren’t that good for you.Thirdly,porn is heavily supported by human trafficking industry
Without question, yes.
Absolutely, especially that super dramatic finger slapping technique that exists for the sake of porn haha
I think porn has always influenced society etc but the fact technology is where its at now in terms of accessibility. It is much more than the past. I remember having to steal magazines or VHS from liquor stores when I was young. Now you can find it like water.
Absolutely
Gay guy here (USA) approximately your age.
Saw this wild amateur documentary on YouTube a few weeks ago about distributors of “physique” magazines in the last century. These were thinly veiled super softcore JO mags for gay guys pretending to be about health and fitness or whatever. So just adult men posing in underwear or swimsuits. No nudity at all by our standards.
As late as ~1967 IIRC, people had their homes raided and were sentenced to prison or hard labor for taking these pictures or sending them through the mail. One guy got a harsher sentence because you could see the outline of his junk through the fabric. Prison for VPL?!
Hard to fathom as I could summon literally millions of images naked hairy nutsacks and bean poles from where I sit right now. Hell I could probably find someone to show me on camera how many billiard balls he could shove up his ass for $2 each.
Terms like MILF and DILF and BBC and barely legal and glory hole and fisting and pegging are commonly understood. Most of us understand the stepsister in the clothes dryer reference. Everybody knows that nobody wants their browser history made public.
I remember when it was a national scandal that the president got an extramarital blowjob. The orange guy has had like 17 wives or something and documented payments to porn stars and been held civilly liable for rape, basically, and has the EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN (!!??) vote all locked down. Boggles the mind how much the culture has changed and how quickly.
I think only time will tell if this is progress or decay. I think nobody doing hard labor for photographing shirtless men is progress though.
Yes
Considering the absolute horror stories I keep hearing from young women trying to date today about guys choking and slapping them out of nowhere and pushing for anal like it’s just a regular activity that is a normal part of regular sex…
Yeah, it’s clearly having a pretty significant (and negative) influence…
I’ve seen multiple news similar to where boys between 10 to 15 rapes smaller girls. So the answer is…A big YES
Idk how much time you spend on the internet these days but kids will look at a woman who is easily an 8 or 9 in real life, put through a filter to make her skin flawless and whatever else photoshop takes care of and call her mid. Then they wonder why women won’t talk to them on the off chance they leave the house.
Source: I used to consume a lot of incel content. Thankfully, it drove me away from being a creepy little goblin, which is where I was headed thanks to teen angst.
For one subset of the population, it is addictive to the point it impacts relationships in a very negative way.
Sadly, internet porn has also made it much easier for child pornographers to produce and share their stuff. The full impact of that has yet to be felt. Pre-internet it was much harder for such people to find each other. Clearly, a lot of children in a lot of places are being victimized for this particular perversion.
I am not inherently against porn. I watch/read/listen to it sometimes. That being said, it really has an influence on people’s preferences and opinions about bodies. Labiaplasty has been on the rise, and it’s much more expected to shave pubic hair than it used to be. Other things too, but that’s the first thing that came to mind.
it’s a fucking fact. if porn didn’t exist women wouldn’t be expected to be completely hairless, and have certain body types and shapes. also everything in the fucking world wouldn’t be sex based
100%.
I think it’s much more subtle though than you would ever realize, and manifests in much more sinister ways than just in the bedroom.
I really think that this is something that needs to be talked about more, And I think you enter very murky waters when this conversation intersects with a sex work conversation – and I think *that* conversation needs to be had more too.
The simple fact porn addiction is a thing, should underline how detrimental and how much of an influence it has on the human psyche.
most definitely like i was unsupervised as a kid online and at around the age of like 9 I had a porn addiction and i didnt get anything out if it like im almost 100% positive that im asexual from the trauma i got from that and it’s also affected my ability to have crushes cause i haven’t had one since i was like 7 plus porn creates unrealistic standards for people which also adds to the list of problems with porn
It would be silly to say that a billion dollar industry has no effect on society, but to what extent, I cannot measure.
Yes
Yes.
Yes. Terribly.
Completely unresearched opinion, but yeah, probably in a big way.
Just the amount of effort people had to go through to see someone naked before the Internet, now you can just Google whatever genitals you want to see, whenever, wherever. It’s got an effect on people’s minds i don’t think most people realize.
It does, but I hesitate to say that it’s a bad thing it has done a lot to loosen the restraints of stigma and taboo. It provides an outlet for sexual expression. It opens conversations about sexual health, pleasure, and desire from all genders and sexualities. From my perspective theres more studies that show the negative effects of porn often come from the stigma surrounding it and less than the raw effect of porn consumption. It’s also important to note that the current attack on porn companies is directly related to silencing lgbtq expression.
Unfortunately yes I do
Factually verifiable.
Porn rewrites pathways in the brain resulting altered states of sexual behavior. People who operate within society have brains. Thus, porn has, is and will continue to influence society and sexuality