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I agree that most people easily make the distinction between fantasy and (their) reality, but the presentation of these thing in the media normalizes them. The repetition of these images causes people to think of them as normal, and their own experiences as abnormal. They then seek to 'fix' what they perceive as their own shortcomings. This is especially prevalent in those who are exposed to pornography before they're fully mature, or before they have (many) sexual experiences.

For every person who watches a porn couple go straight into full on anal piledriver mode with no warm-up or lube and rolls their eyes, there's another who wonders "why can't I do that?"

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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.