Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ?
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Most of it is in line with what you’d think: not that terrible unless you’re repressed and think that sex is bad or you have the religious hang ups that dictate sex should be sacred in some way
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27105446/ - higher consumption of pornography in adolescence leads to more permissive sexual attitudes (eg casual sex)
ovid.com/…/26318318231153984~pornography-and-its-… - association (not necessarily causal) of pornography use and earlier loss of virginity as well as greater risk taking in sex (such as inconsistent use of condoms, which could perhaps be addressed by the industry using them more)
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30919052/ longitudinal studies find weak or no links between increased use of pornography and decreased psychological well being
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35294070/ while there are longitudinal studies that show correlation between pornography use and sexual harassment/assault there are studies to suggest that this may not be causal and other confounding variables such as peer environment, family attitudes, or personality traits may be more causal in nature)
Lots more but a lot of the negative effects are often tied to guilt and shame which is socially derived and possibly without basis
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
We really need to distinguish between porn that displays harmful attitudes towards women and everything else. There are libraries of porn available on nline that display harmful attitudes towards women either through coercive acts or people in positions of power taking advantage of others. Not ALL porn is like that but the question is what are adolescents watching and how would we expect that to impact their perception of a healthy sexual relationship?
pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Purely anecdotal, but the dominance/submission dynamic is something that many women seem to actually want. I have never steered things in that direction since it’s not my thing, but everyone I have been with has asked for some actions like that, being held down, light choking, some pain, etc. Remember how popular 50 shades was? It saddened me, like, “this is what mainstream women actually want”? It’s not what I want.