Whew, I'm late to this party.
I think it's only a problem that it's so readily available for children to easily access. I never had the internet at home until I was 10, but I remember when I first got it, it's SO easy to accidentally fall across porn ads when searching innocent things on the internet. That's an issue.
I think even bigger though is the lack of education around porn. We've got people (teenagers especially) who consume porn, and then due to their lack of real life sexual experience they compare themselves to porn actors. It suddenly becomes "normal" to have an 8 inch penis and breasts that are shaped like basketballs, so guys with a (truly very normal) 5 inch penis and girls with B-cup breasts suddenly feel inadequate. I think that's partly why sex education is so important now, teenagers especially need to learn that porn is not an accurate depiction of sexual acts, and the actors are especially hand-picked for their features, which are often surgically or even digitally enhanced anyway.
I think it's only a problem that it's so readily available for children to easily access. I never had the internet at home until I was 10, but I remember when I first got it, it's SO easy to accidentally fall across porn ads when searching innocent things on the internet. That's an issue.
I think even bigger though is the lack of education around porn. We've got people (teenagers especially) who consume porn, and then due to their lack of real life sexual experience they compare themselves to porn actors. It suddenly becomes "normal" to have an 8 inch penis and breasts that are shaped like basketballs, so guys with a (truly very normal) 5 inch penis and girls with B-cup breasts suddenly feel inadequate. I think that's partly why sex education is so important now, teenagers especially need to learn that porn is not an accurate depiction of sexual acts, and the actors are especially hand-picked for their features, which are often surgically or even digitally enhanced anyway.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
