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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
I read recently in a newspaper something I'm willing to buy into: that porn, for many men, represents rejection, frustration, and even shame.
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This is interesting. I know that for myself there is a clear distinction between the drive to look at porn and the drive to have sex. With porn, it's about getting off. With sex, it's about fun. Most days I still wake up like the
40 Year Old Virgin. I'm not going to wait for it to deflate, ya know?
I also thinks its important to explore how porn is "consumed" by young people. Above I stated that I think that porn is the way it is because people have an increasingly short attention span and just want to get off. While there are always freaks to ruin the (relatively) good thing, I wouldn't say that porn is much different than any other type of indulgent reality (garbage) TeeVee these days. Whether the fantasy is plowing a redhead in some goth outfit or watching multiple airheads bobble through life a la
The Hills or
The City, the drive and result is the same: "That's awesome, I feel better/placated/whatever, it's not my life but I like watching it, I'll watch it again when I feel the itch, now I can go focus on my boring but satisfying reality."
I should probably let this go here. I don't wanna be that "soap operas are just emotional porn for women" guy in this thread.