Do you think that the internet means we will raise a generation of men who ALL regularly use porn?

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I mean, it's so easy - you want a wank, you sit down, you do a Google image search and there is everything you can possibly imagine at your fingertips. Why NOT use porn, when it is so easy?

Do you think that this means we will raise a generation of men who ALL regularly use porn? Who just never do without?

I really hope not.

What a pitiful substitute for using one's imagination.

But as I'm a cynic and truly believe the whole of society has been dumbed down to teh point where literacy is even seen as optional - we're allowing students to use 'txtspk' on GCSEs, ffs! - I wouldn't be surprised.

how has this changed? was ever so, methinks...

Oooh don't get me started on txt spk for exams

It's condoning illiteracy, flame.

Have we come that far?

Where even written language has no respect?

How Neanderthal is that?

(are we expat? Not the gcses I'm teaching they don't!)

I guess if porn appeals to someone then they're going to get access to it whatever - and 20 mins on the computer has taken over from a quick wank in the bathroom with a dirty mag. The trouble is with the computer is it's much easier to acess a wider range of porn. I don't know that it's any worse than mags and videos though really. If you really want some porn and you have no pc then you'll get it whatever, maybe?

I am pretty sure that most men of my generation use porn. All of them have had access to it, from their teen years onwards. Heck, I had access to it when I was a kid (my father wasn't good at keeping things hidden).

Whenever people have new technology, the first thing they do is to work out how to use it for porn. Not new at all.

(I do worry, however, that the extreme prevalence and standardisation of porn has made high-maintenance beauty a "norm". A single friend back home was told by someone, the first time he stayed over, that she should get a full wax job. WTF?!?)

(Should have said - the first and last time he stayed over.)

It is soooo wrong. The written word is one of the greatest things in the world - txt spk is destroying it.

Sorry - no real knowledge of porn...

No, but Flame will back me up on this, it will raise a generation of young men who use World of Warcraft far too much

Congratulations on your weekly round up MP....

I think men had pretty easy access to porn before - passed it around their mates, picked up a copy when popping into the newsagents for cigarettes etc etc.

It hasnt become that much easier, IMO. But it can certainly be done without the local busybody knowing what you have been looking at.

Although, with all the spyware floating around these days there are probably thousands of anonymous folks that do know what they are up to.

I do worry about the proliferation of specialist porn, meaning that in 50 years, everyone will have their own personal bizarre kink, and be unable to have sex with nearly anybody else, as they don't share enough interests.

The net has certainly encouraged that area of human sexuality - see that German guy who ate someone consensually!

Indeed. But DH assures me that it is good for hand eye co-ordination and imagination

(WoW that is... not porn)

(Well... probably porn too)

oh that was shocking NQC....

GCSEs - Not sure... it was in First

Exactly, NQC, there's this whole new standard of what's expected sexually, particularly of a female, that I find little short of disturbing.

We have labioplasty, anal bleaching, etc. to go along w/it, and young women feeling uncomfortable w/their bodies AND w/sexual acts some men seem to see as standard b/c of what they've seen on porn.

I find porn intrinisically misogynistic, however, so I am somewhat biased.

Oooh... too much to drink to handle the words "intrinsically misogenistic"

(Not sure I can handle them sober actually... )

gYnistic

Undoubtedly men have always had access to porn, but the internet has allowed the proliferation of lots more of the really nasty stuff - violent porn, kiddie porn etc.

And of course it is much more accessible to children than it ever was before.

EIS, is it only image-based porn you object to? Or are Mills and Boon novels also inherantly misogynistic?

I'm not too up-to-date on porn trends, although I have heard of some mainstream porn trends that are a bit disturbing. But old porn used to be fairly positive about women.

Did it? It's always made me feel fat and ugly, and I'm quite ancient.

I know I'm just an old 80s fembot, but I think the vast majority of it has always been vile and it is getting viler.