porn and women

[Catholic_Lady]

It's not just about how the women who do porn are treated and whether it is physically and mentally healthy for them.

It's about how it conditions us, as a society, to view women and sex in general. Does it make women more insecure in bed? Insecure about their bodies? Does it cause women to be seen more as objects by other people (including themselves)? Does it make them feel expected to perform a certain way? Does it make men expect more in bed? Does it make men less easily satisfied/aroused by the real women they have sex with? Does it make men more selfish and less loving in bed? Does it negatively effect men's treatment of women in the dating/bedding scene?

...those are all things that will obviously have negative effects on women, if the answers are "yes". That's what I'm curious to know from people here, whether you think any of those answers would be yes.

I can see this having a negative effect on men as well for almost the same reasons.

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I agree that men are objectified as well, and that the male porn actors often have to resort to taking unhealthy doses of Viagra. I'm not meaning to imply that men come out of it unscathed by any means. But since the majority of the porn audience is male, and since the majority of the porn workers are female, it seems this would be more a woman's issue.

But if the audience is mainly men, wouldn't they feel more insecure about their size, body, and performance in comparison to a porn star.

Perhaps. Where I was going with that is that since not as many women watch porn as much, perhaps the men don't feel as much like they have to measure up to what the woman is seeing.

But I do agree. I think it effects men negatively as well.