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Re:What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and you... by jqm on Sunday September 27, 2015 @04:07PM (#10287763)
It might be worthwhile to examine this phenomenon in a larger context. For example, I know a girl who is obsessed with watching sticky sweet romantic shows and movies like "twilight" and "the bachelor". The romance portrayed in these shows is extremely unrealistic and I feel it gives her unrealistic expectations of romantic relationships. Certainly there are no shortage of young men smoking too much marijuana and watching too much internet porn and generally not trying in life who wonder why they can't find a female partner, but likewise there are a lot women who are overweight, unclean, disorganized and generally not exciting (or even downright repulsive) watching romantic shows or reading sexy novels and thinking their world should be that way.

The larger phenomenon is, in my opinion, media substitutions for reality. It's like to much sugar and causes certain individuals problems. But it's not a problem isolated to porn and young men.

Re:What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and you... by int_handler on Sunday September 27, 2015 @07:13PM (#10288253)
Definitely agree.

What makes it difficult for many people to look at this phenomenon in a larger context is that it is much easier to be alarmist at anything sexual. Unfortunately, many parts of societies still view sex as something shameful and thus tend to attempt to avoid anything to do with it rather than having meaningful discussion about it.

Re:What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and you... by TickleMeHellNo on Sunday September 27, 2015 @04:30PM (#10287851)
You might find "Don Jon" a good watch: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2229499/
Re:What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and you... by nyc_cyn on Sunday September 27, 2015 @04:43PM (#10287892)
Well said.