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Originally Posted by Plan9
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Let's not discount the fact that people can be aware of the difference between reality and fantasy.
Otherwise... our highways would look like a cross between a NASCAR track and Die Hard 3.
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Newsflash, people cannot tell the difference between fantasy and reality.
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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
I'm taking the opportunity to say this here. It relates to this topic and other topics discussed in this forum.
In my years as a human being, it has become quite clear to me that people can not tell the difference between reality and fantasy.
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I agree.
So, one of the theorists I spent a lot of time studying in school was George Gerbner. His cultivation theory relates to tv but I think the concept can be applied here. The basic idea is that people who watch more than four hours of tv per day believe they're ten times more likely to be involved in an act of violence in the next ten days when compared to people who watch less than two hours per day. Violence is so prevalent on tv that people start to think that it's that common in reality too. Perhaps there's a similar effect for porn? If I sell my business and decide to go into a communication research field I love to find out.
On the other hand, I think some blame for these changes falls with the parents. Parents (in the US at least) seem to be leaving the sex ed up to the schools and the schools are really only using abstinence education.
I'd love to see some actual research be done on this topic.
