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Showing Original Post only (View all)7 Thing I Want My Son To Know About Porn [View all]
This makes me sad, but not for the reason you might think. Theres nothing wrong with sex and theres nothing wrong with being interested in it. For me, this is not a moral question. Im upset because I think watching porn has the potential to affect your own sexual experiences in a really negative way. And its not just me. This is a proven fact. Men who watch a lot of porn have trouble enjoying real sex with real women. And I dont want you to be that guy not for yourself and not for your partners.
I truly wish you and your generation could have been free to embark on your sex lives free from all the hardcore, soulless, sexist imagery of porn. I wish you could all have had the chance to explore it organically, with all the surprises, the thrills and even the spills. Without expectations or preconceptions. Thats the way it used to be, back in ye olden days. For us, sex was a wonderful, sometimes awkward experience of discovery. Lots of fumbling and bumbling and working it out as you went along.
Today though, by the time you and your friends have sex, youll almost certainly have seen hundreds of hours of porn stars going at it in many, many different ways. This will be the visual wallpaper in your mind as you explore your own sexuality and thats truly unfortunate.
porn is not sex A letter to my son about porn.
Porn is not real sex
I understand that the porn genie cant be put back in the bottle. Your generation is a product of our time and youre all in the same boat. So I guess youll all figure it out.
Read more at http://www.mamamia.com.au/parenting/talking-to-kids-about-porn/#J6XhWkZyGAjTjDiK.99
I truly wish you and your generation could have been free to embark on your sex lives free from all the hardcore, soulless, sexist imagery of porn. I wish you could all have had the chance to explore it organically, with all the surprises, the thrills and even the spills. Without expectations or preconceptions. Thats the way it used to be, back in ye olden days. For us, sex was a wonderful, sometimes awkward experience of discovery. Lots of fumbling and bumbling and working it out as you went along.
Today though, by the time you and your friends have sex, youll almost certainly have seen hundreds of hours of porn stars going at it in many, many different ways. This will be the visual wallpaper in your mind as you explore your own sexuality and thats truly unfortunate.
porn is not sex A letter to my son about porn.
Porn is not real sex
I understand that the porn genie cant be put back in the bottle. Your generation is a product of our time and youre all in the same boat. So I guess youll all figure it out.
Read more at http://www.mamamia.com.au/parenting/talking-to-kids-about-porn/#J6XhWkZyGAjTjDiK.99
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Just heard in the past few days on NPR, that "Corporate" porn is hitting hard times.
Fla Dem
Nov 2014
#15
Actually the post made me wonder WHY we have a society that produces the kind of porn we have
ismnotwasm
Nov 2014
#41
Thanks, I am not up on the latest studies. There are too many things associated with porn to make
uppityperson
Nov 2014
#21
Sounds like someone who just can't get used to the idea that we use calculators now.
jtuck004
Nov 2014
#25
Porn follows our culture, I think. No worse than what is on tv. If people can't see unarmed
jtuck004
Nov 2014
#35