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Porn culture has led to women suffering injuries during sex

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Doyoumind · 12/08/2022 10:01

Apart from all the violence etc porn portrays as normal, anal sex is definitely treated as an everyday thing that women enjoy. I don't personally. I know some women claim they do but I've certainly known men who pressure for it and I'm guessing it's only got worse in the years since I was dating.

This article suggests women are unknowingly entering into something that can cause serious injuries.

www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/11/rise-in-popularity-of-anal-sex-has-led-to-health-problems-for-women

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PollyRockets · 13/08/2022 09:20

@excitingusername

Why would my children say anal sex is disgusting and wrong

I'm teaching them to understand consequences to actions. Not become judgmental idiots

Maybe that's something your parents should have focused on with you

excitingusername · 13/08/2022 09:17

Perplexed0522 · 13/08/2022 09:13

Bet her kids don't dare to question the morality or validity of anything sexual. I bet they've learned to scorn and dismiss their own natural boundaries or initial feelings of revulsion about the explicit concepts she has introduced them to before they can even consent to normal sex.

I imagine the conversations she has with her children are based around information giving and not her telling them that she has anal sex and how pleasurable she finds it.

Pol goes that extra mile for her kids if you read back.

PollyRockets · 13/08/2022 09:16

@excitingusername

Libtard?

Wonder how old you are and which papers you read Grin

Gosh you're everything wrong with the older generation. At least my gran was able to talk openly about her sexual experiences.

excitingusername · 13/08/2022 09:14

PollyRockets · 13/08/2022 08:56

@excitingusername

Plenty of older women had anal sex, most just had very bad experiences with it.

My own grandmother for example.

She often told me and any of my cousins in earshot that back in her day men used it as a way to 'punish' their wives and it seemed relatively widespread among her friends, Co-workers and her army of Avon ladies (so she called them!)

If people want to have anal sex they should, but they should be armed with the knowledge on how to do it as safely as possible. Currently people aren't aware due to media influence.

Why you have an issue with education is beyond me considering the consequences for women, and men.

So your Grandmother talks about an anal rape culture that existed and yet your response towards women who despise the concept of anal and think it is outright dangerous is to shame and berate them.

Children don't need a zealous libtard domineering their sex ed in their efforts to promote the wokest most PC version of it possible. They need to know they can also be genuinely disgusted and outright dismissive of the things you sexually-sanctimonious adults are insisting they be 'open-minded' about.

HRTQueen · 13/08/2022 09:14

I’m guessing those that are deliberately being obtuse about anal sex can be safe if done correctly also use terms like breath play with nonsense claims about safely chocking someone

it can be made safer that is not meaning it’s safe and without risk of harm there is a difference we all know that

there are lots of articles online aimed at young women often teenagers about safe anal sex and how great it is if done safely and where do people turn to now for advice

there needs to be equal amount of articles from the same publishers directed at young women about the dangers but our society is so influenced by porn that advising how women should be sexually adventurous and man pleasing is now the agenda not women’s safety and dignity

I complained to YouTube about having so called safe breath play advice generic email replies they couldn’t give a fuck about (mainly) women’s safety

RufustheFloralmissingreindeer · 13/08/2022 09:13

Whitehorsegirl · 13/08/2022 08:28

I read this piece as well and thought it was about time that this was discussed.

Yet another result of porn being so readily available and too many men thinking that what they see in these videos is actually a realistic depiction of sex and should be copied.

I am so sick and tired of women being routinely harmed because someone fancies rough sex or can't grasp that women are not porn stars.

Yes, some women will enjoy anal sex but for most it is a grim experience and it would be silly to ignore the physical risks attached to it. Let's just say it like it is.

We really need to stop that pressure to just go along with whatever sex act is promoted by porn because if we don't we are ''prudes'' or ''pearl clutchers''.

There is a lot of information available already for gay and bi men about anal sex but very little for women and it is interesting to see that the difference in the female anatomy can make the act even trickier. That needs to be acknowledged so that they can make an informed decision as to whether they want to do this or not.

I think teenager boys and girls need more support and education to understand the importance of consent and boundaries.

Porn makes things mainstream and then if its mainstream we should be educated on it

Perplexed0522 · 13/08/2022 09:13

Bet her kids don't dare to question the morality or validity of anything sexual. I bet they've learned to scorn and dismiss their own natural boundaries or initial feelings of revulsion about the explicit concepts she has introduced them to before they can even consent to normal sex.

I imagine the conversations she has with her children are based around information giving and not her telling them that she has anal sex and how pleasurable she finds it.

sunglassesonthetable · 13/08/2022 09:11

Bet her kids don't dare to question the morality or validity of anything sexual. I bet they've learned to scorn and dismiss their own natural boundaries or initial feelings of revulsion about the explicit concepts she has introduced them to before they can even consent to normal sex. I bet the only shame they feel is when she is scathing them for being narrow-minded prudish bigots. Freedom indeed.

The entertainment is back.

sunglassesonthetable · 13/08/2022 09:07

*There is a lot of information available already for gay and bi men about anal sex but very little for women and it is interesting to see that the difference in the female anatomy can make the act even trickier. That needs to be acknowledged so that they can make an informed decision as to whether they want to do this or not.

I think teenager boys and girls need more support and education to understand the importance of consent and boundaries.*

yes 👍🏻

threetimesacharm · 13/08/2022 09:03

Lots of comments about doing it with someone you trust.

Because no has ever been raped or assaulted or had things be taken too far by someone they trust.

excitingusername · 13/08/2022 09:00

PollyRockets · 13/08/2022 08:47

@excitingusername

Of course they question things sexually

It's called open discussions, which are encouraged in my house.

You are aware that stigmatisation simply drives issues underground, children are getting 'education' from porn which is leading to pretty shitty (pun intended) consequences. Mainly for women and girls.

Why you'd want to continue that is beyond me

So if your kiddy proved they had far more conservative tastes than you despite your grooming efforts and said 'nope, these things are disgusting and wrong' you're saying you don't react with the same kneejerk vehemence, anger and shaming that you have done here? I bet they wouldn't dare given the way you are on here!

Freedom means freedom to tell you to shove your sexual 'progressiveness' up your own jacksy love.

The stigma and shame you promote is that not being open to all manner of sexual deviances is the wrongthink. You project mature, adult sexual behaviour on to your children and others. From your posts you have assumed that their sex lives will automatically involve pornified brutality.

I get it though - teaching them that the world is getting it wrong is far harder than just capitulating to the culture around you.

PollyRockets · 13/08/2022 08:56

@excitingusername

Plenty of older women had anal sex, most just had very bad experiences with it.

My own grandmother for example.

She often told me and any of my cousins in earshot that back in her day men used it as a way to 'punish' their wives and it seemed relatively widespread among her friends, Co-workers and her army of Avon ladies (so she called them!)

If people want to have anal sex they should, but they should be armed with the knowledge on how to do it as safely as possible. Currently people aren't aware due to media influence.

Why you have an issue with education is beyond me considering the consequences for women, and men.

excitingusername · 13/08/2022 08:48

Fifife · 13/08/2022 08:15

Do you ever have constipated large bowel movements? I have and I'm not incontinent I've also needed an enema in the past for constipation after an operation still not incontinent. I work in healthcare and the people who are doubly incontinent are usually 70+ caused by Dementia not because they had a cock up their backside too many times.

First, you're not privy to that information about your patients so you wouldn't know. Second, that generation didn't 'normalise' anal sex. The numbers engaging with it would be far far fewer.

PollyRockets · 13/08/2022 08:47

@excitingusername

Of course they question things sexually

It's called open discussions, which are encouraged in my house.

You are aware that stigmatisation simply drives issues underground, children are getting 'education' from porn which is leading to pretty shitty (pun intended) consequences. Mainly for women and girls.

Why you'd want to continue that is beyond me

excitingusername · 13/08/2022 08:45

TullyApplebottom · 13/08/2022 08:35

But at least they’ll know about sex outside the missionary position. That’s what matters.

Old Pol has to double down, as if she really questioned herself in this she'd have to come to terms with the fact that she'd made some very dubious parenting choices.

Bet her kids don't dare to question the morality or validity of anything sexual. I bet they've learned to scorn and dismiss their own natural boundaries or initial feelings of revulsion about the explicit concepts she has introduced them to before they can even consent to normal sex. I bet the only shame they feel is when she is scathing them for being narrow-minded prudish bigots. Freedom indeed.

Fifife · 13/08/2022 08:43

Whether we like it or not Anal has become mainstream so we should be educating people. Just saying it's disgusting and shameful pushes it underground with people getting their sex education from porn.

PollyRockets · 13/08/2022 08:36

@TullyApplebottom

What implications would those be?

That girls and boys are taught how to safely manage all aspects of sexual intercourse?

That children are taught that anal can be dangerous for many and should be discussed and well thought out if they want to try it

The implications are less women with leaky bumholes

What you've been wanting this whole time. But via education over stigmatization

You are projecting, as others have noted too.

TullyApplebottom · 13/08/2022 08:35

excitingusername · 13/08/2022 08:25

😂You know we're in end times when mothers' feel sanctimonious about how open they - and by extension their children - are to shoving things up their rear. And even if they 'don't like it', that freedom must be preserved for the people at all cost. What a hill to die on.

With that level of evangelical zeal I am sure the only shame she is spreading is to her kids is if the poor things have any natural and valid revulsion to the things she seems to wish them to engage with.

But at least they’ll know about sex outside the missionary position. That’s what matters.

Maggie178 · 13/08/2022 08:34

I don't think anal sex is the problem it's men's attitudes.

TullyApplebottom · 13/08/2022 08:33

PollyRockets · 13/08/2022 08:24

@TullyApplebottom

You have issues

Maybe work on them in private instead of laying it out for all to see on here

No one is judging those who love the missionary

You just seem to intent on that being the case

You don’t even understand the implications of what you’re saying, do you?

liloandstench · 13/08/2022 08:29

Here we are again. “Missionary position”. If you’re not open to this you’re repressed with a boring sex life. Of course.

Are you sure you're not projecting? Nobody said this but you. You seem to be deliberately misinterpreting people's posts.

Whitehorsegirl · 13/08/2022 08:28

I read this piece as well and thought it was about time that this was discussed.

Yet another result of porn being so readily available and too many men thinking that what they see in these videos is actually a realistic depiction of sex and should be copied.

I am so sick and tired of women being routinely harmed because someone fancies rough sex or can't grasp that women are not porn stars.

Yes, some women will enjoy anal sex but for most it is a grim experience and it would be silly to ignore the physical risks attached to it. Let's just say it like it is.

We really need to stop that pressure to just go along with whatever sex act is promoted by porn because if we don't we are ''prudes'' or ''pearl clutchers''.

There is a lot of information available already for gay and bi men about anal sex but very little for women and it is interesting to see that the difference in the female anatomy can make the act even trickier. That needs to be acknowledged so that they can make an informed decision as to whether they want to do this or not.

I think teenager boys and girls need more support and education to understand the importance of consent and boundaries.

excitingusername · 13/08/2022 08:25

TullyApplebottom · 13/08/2022 08:07

We have a full house here …. Women who are open to risky sexual acts are superior to women who aren’t. Women who aren’t must be that way because they are old, repressed, ignorant about sex or otherwise uncool. People who engage in risky sexual acts must never be made to feel bad about that in any way.
the Bullshit Bible has been swallowed whole by this one.

😂You know we're in end times when mothers' feel sanctimonious about how open they - and by extension their children - are to shoving things up their rear. And even if they 'don't like it', that freedom must be preserved for the people at all cost. What a hill to die on.

With that level of evangelical zeal I am sure the only shame she is spreading is to her kids is if the poor things have any natural and valid revulsion to the things she seems to wish them to engage with.

PollyRockets · 13/08/2022 08:24

@TullyApplebottom

You have issues

Maybe work on them in private instead of laying it out for all to see on here

No one is judging those who love the missionary

You just seem to intent on that being the case

TullyApplebottom · 13/08/2022 08:21

PollyRockets · 13/08/2022 08:13

Oh watch out you'll be called a groomer soon

Can't be teaching children about safe sexual practice outside the missionary position didn't you know!

Here we are again. “Missionary position”. If you’re not open to this you’re repressed with a boring sex life. Of course.

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