Porn Makes You Want Less Real Sex

I guess this is no real shock if you think about it for a few minutes, but a story titled The Porn Myth in New York Magazine examines the effect of readily available high quality porn on the sexpectations of the current generation.

It's a sad tale that would have surprised people even 10 or 20 years ago when it was apparently common knowledge that exposure to pornography created sex hungry men:

But the effect is not making men into raving beasts. On the contrary: The onslaught of porn is responsible for deadening male libido in relation to real women, and leading men to see fewer and fewer women as "porn-worthy." Far from having to fend off porn-crazed young men, young women are worrying that as mere flesh and blood, they can scarcely get, let alone hold, their attention.

In other words, the fake stuff has raised standards so far that it's hard for real women to compete!

And they know it...

Here is what young women tell me on college campuses when the subject comes up: They can't compete, and they know it. For how can a real woman--with pores and her own breasts and even sexual needs of her own (let alone with speech that goes beyond "More, more, you big stud!")--possibly compete with a cybervision of perfection, downloadable and extinguishable at will, who comes, so to speak, utterly submissive and tailored to the consumer's least specification?

Yikes.

While the entire article is worth a read, I can summarize it using one short quote from the first page:

For most of human history, erotic images have been reflections of, or celebrations of, or substitutes for, real naked women. For the first time in human history, the images' power and allure have supplanted that of real naked women. Today, real naked women are just bad porn.

In related news, check out the story of the stunning size 12 model branded 'too fat' for television. There's a picture of her and the apparently "more ideal" model on the page. It's a stark and somewhat depressing contrast.

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Source: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/008063.html
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