It's the decline of morals these days. When I was a lad no one ever thought about sex for even a brief moment until we were in our 40s or 50s and old enough to handle the temptation to experience pleasure, and had the strength of character to beat that temptation off.
The Deja Vue advertisements on The Stranger website are enough to turn somebody into a psychopathic pervert. Congratulations on contributing to a sick society!
Yeah, as fast-breaking news items go it's pretty lame (way to represent Canadian journalism, National Post). The point that the report is trying to make is not so much that the impulse exists but that a lot of teenagers are seizing the opportunities that the internet affords them. If internet porn is their is their only introduction to human sexuality then, yes, it's a big problem.
What was really interesting to me, though, was the observation that in the survey group of male students in grades 7 through 11, the pursuit of internet porn was progressive i.e. 10% of 7th graders,
33% of 8th graders,
50% of 9th graders, and
66% of 10th and 11th graders.
It's as if interest in sex increases with age (like we'd expect) but also that the WIDE availability of porn doesn't necessarily make younger teens preoccupied with sex. That's heartening.
Side note:
As a retail worker I have noticed that some young men still consider the purchase of condoms as an occasion for shame, not pride, and I don't think that in two years at a drug store I've sold to more than one woman.
Get it together folks, hold them over your head on the way to the counter (or just open carry) so people know "This is how it's done!"
@27: If our definition of pornography is anything that presents a distorted and unhealthy view of sex then you make a good, if obvious, point.
Personally I believe that all depictions of sexuality should wholesome and life affirming, uh, whatever that might be. I hesitate to suggest however that society is so fragile that it can be undermined by poor taste.
@15: That is encouraging. I'm a lot less concerned about porn per se than about the effortless availability of every possible level of porn. (i.e. It's no longer just the JC Penny catalogue leading to Playboy for readily available half-naked people.)
@27: The lesson of Gomorrah is that gang rape of men is very bad, but offering up one's young teenage daughters for gang rape is just basic manners. And if god destroys your city and you just go hang out in a cave for years, incest with those young girls is cool. (Yeah yeah, I get that in the "official" version those horny young girls managed to seduce their poor old dad. Multiple times! He just couldn't get away from their seductive wiles...)
Oddly this does not make me want to convert to the religion in question.
When commercial porn starts to show as many hot male faces getting squirted and long uninterrupted clit worship scenes, and more of the actresses are allowed to touch themselves instead of the demand for bare pussy shots, then it might be ok to watch for supplementary sex ed. It seems to cause many relationship problems in its current form, which is extremely male oriented fantasy.
@29 I think that poor taste in social norms can influence societal stability (think fall of Rome, modern German or middle east examples). But I don't think that most people take porn that seriously judging from the comments, except the second post.
Watching porn is how I learned about it.
The results seem phrased to avoid mentioning the obvious next steps - i.e., find it, use it...
What was really interesting to me, though, was the observation that in the survey group of male students in grades 7 through 11, the pursuit of internet porn was progressive i.e. 10% of 7th graders,
33% of 8th graders,
50% of 9th graders, and
66% of 10th and 11th graders.
It's as if interest in sex increases with age (like we'd expect) but also that the WIDE availability of porn doesn't necessarily make younger teens preoccupied with sex. That's heartening.
I was a teenage boy just a few short years ago, pay me no mind.
@13 Ahh...the Sears catalog underwear section. Ou sont les neiges....?
Up hill indeed, both ways. But we were 'appeh!!
As a retail worker I have noticed that some young men still consider the purchase of condoms as an occasion for shame, not pride, and I don't think that in two years at a drug store I've sold to more than one woman.
Get it together folks, hold them over your head on the way to the counter (or just open carry) so people know "This is how it's done!"
/preaching to the choir
The fact that it is universally available to kids is a significant factor in the dysfunction of this society.
Gommorah and all...
Personally I believe that all depictions of sexuality should wholesome and life affirming, uh, whatever that might be. I hesitate to suggest however that society is so fragile that it can be undermined by poor taste.
@27: The lesson of Gomorrah is that gang rape of men is very bad, but offering up one's young teenage daughters for gang rape is just basic manners. And if god destroys your city and you just go hang out in a cave for years, incest with those young girls is cool. (Yeah yeah, I get that in the "official" version those horny young girls managed to seduce their poor old dad. Multiple times! He just couldn't get away from their seductive wiles...)
Oddly this does not make me want to convert to the religion in question.
http://www.scarleteen.com/article/bodies…
And it treats the emotional sex issues well too.
When commercial porn starts to show as many hot male faces getting squirted and long uninterrupted clit worship scenes, and more of the actresses are allowed to touch themselves instead of the demand for bare pussy shots, then it might be ok to watch for supplementary sex ed. It seems to cause many relationship problems in its current form, which is extremely male oriented fantasy.
@29 I think that poor taste in social norms can influence societal stability (think fall of Rome, modern German or middle east examples). But I don't think that most people take porn that seriously judging from the comments, except the second post.