Sex Obsessed: Is the Average Teen Brain Ready for Porn?
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[quote]For a new generation of young people, pornography is just a click away, but some experts have been asking, is the average teenage brain ready for porn?
In a study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 70 percent of teenagers said they accidentally stumbled across porn online. Some experts say pornographic videos and images can color a teenager's ideas of what sex should be like even after they start experiencing it for themselves.
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Gail Danes, the author of a book called "Pornland," said for the average young teenage male, his first formative impression of sex is porn he might find on the Internet.
"You average teen, when he clicks on 'porn' in Google, what does he think he is going to see, breasts maybe? In reality, he is catapulted into a world of sexual violence," Danes said. "He doesn't have a reservoir of experience. He has probably never had sex."
Danes argues that pornography, which has never been easier to find and view, is "sexually traumatizing an entire generation of boys."
"[Porn] is his introduction to sex, so I think he's assuming that this is all about arousal," she said. "[He is] being introduced into sex by 'gag me and then f**k me.'"
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And it's not just boys. Winnifred Bonjean-Alpart, who appeared in the 2012 indie documentary "Sexy Baby," said she was only 12 years old when she admitted she had seen porn and understood all its innuendos.
"We're getting messages from everywhere that are saying if you dress this way, you are going to be either treated well or you are going to feel powerful," she said. "Sex is power."
Bonjean-Alpart is part of a new order of teenagers brought up in an era where explicit images can be found just about anywhere.
"We're like the first generation to have what we have," she said. There is no one before us that can kind of guide us. I mean, we are the pioneers."
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Calum, a young man living in England with a long-time porn compulsion, spoke with English journalist Martin Daubney for the British Channel 4 report, "Porn on the Brain." In the report, Calum told Daubney that sex with real women didn't compare to masturbating to porn.
"It's not as good because they're not as good as the porn, obviously," Calum said. "The porn girls have done it a lot more. They're more confident."[/quote]
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[editline]1st November 2013[/editline]
Eh, sooner or later the teen is going to find out about porn, nothing's gonna stop that.
Betteridge's law. Wait, fuck.
Frankly finding out about furries when I was 13 was among the more confusing things from my childhood.
Seriously, I was questioning why someone would draw a person with a dolphin's head and exposed tits for days.
I still have no clue why.
the problem is that with our values on sexuality and suppression our society provides no alternative to pornography. the fantasy of pornography exists because between our desires and what society considers valid there's a gap and porn fills that gap.
idk if porn hurts the mind of a teenager im not a researcher, but porn does have a huge impact on our society and the reaction shouldnt be to revert to puritanism. that would only hurt kids more.
This is why proper sex-ed is important.
Proper sex ed is all that is needed.
Isn't getting high expectations of sex from watching porn is what Jon Don is about?
Who the fuck puts "porn" in Google?
[QUOTE=deadoon;42721036]Frankly finding out about furries when I was 13 was among the more confusing things from my childhood.
Seriously, I was questioning why someone would draw a person with a dolphin's head and exposed tits for days.
I still have no clue why.[/QUOTE]
seems pretty obvious to me? primacy in sex, removal of the problem of self-identity in sex (make your own identity), the allure of the unattainable?
[QUOTE=Azaz3l;42721091]Who the fuck puts "porn" in Google?[/QUOTE]
Er, first time teens?
[QUOTE=lech;42721062]Isn't getting high expectations of sex from watching porn is what Jon Don is about?[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of this Onion video.
[video=youtube;Y4kwk5jV2nU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4kwk5jV2nU[/video]
That girl at 2:20
"There was this one black guy, one hispanic guy and this one very blonde woman and they were ferociously... banging each other... it was very... mmm"
Porn isn't realistic, but:
[quote]"[Porn] is his introduction to sex, so I think he's assuming that this is all about arousal," she said. "[He is] being introduced into sex by 'gag me and then f**k me.'"[/quote]
"Gag me and fuck me"?
That shit exists, yeah, but I don't know that very many people's first impression of sex is light BDSM.
I don't know bout you guys but I've always known that porn is not what sex should be like, ever. Even when I was like 12 I knew that if you wanted a shag, you don't let the girl choke on your dick and then spew your load on her face.
I've never been confused by the subject and surprised that other people would take it as-is
There's not really anything practical we can do to keep teens from seeing it, but I would say porn does give a very skewed version of what sex is supposed to be like and that is definitely not a good thing.
[QUOTE=Instant Mix;42721254]I don't know bout you guys but I've always known that porn is not what sex should be like, ever. Even when I was like 12 I knew that if you wanted a shag, you don't let the girl choke on your dick and then spew your load on her face.
I've never been confused by the subject and surprised that other people would take it as-is[/QUOTE]
that's ridiculous. porn, directly or as proxied by society, influences your cognitive thinking.
id say that if you think that porn doesn't influence your idea of sex then you're more affected by it than people who acknowledge it does, just by the virtue that you don't realise how you're affected by it.
it's like saying you've always known that hating women was bad therefor misogyny doesn't influence your opinions or consciousness, that's just not how it works.
porn is okay for teens, just tell them that what they see for the most part is not what sex is like. thats what my parents told me, and they dont give a shit that i look at porn, theyre actually pretty open about sex stuff.
but god help your poor teenage soul if you discover furry porn
Horse dicks are best dicks. [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/rainbow.png[/img]
Thank you internet for corrupting my mind when I was a teen.
If teens recieve a good sex education it will be fine, although it would be neat if the topic about porn would be tackled during sex education. We always talked about sex, how it works and why. Never about the different variety of sexual practices, I wish that they would set a focus on that to.
Anyway professional porn is pretty atrocious, it's so fake and absolutely horrible to watch.
[QUOTE=junker154;42721387]If teens recieve a good sex education it will be fine, although it would be neat if the topic about porn would be tackled during sex education. We always talked about sex, how it works and why. Never about the different variety of sexual practices, I wish that they would set a focus on that to.
Anyway professional porn is pretty atrocious, it's so fake and absolutely horrible to watch.[/QUOTE]
Problem is that for some teens that is their only exposure to sexual practice, so they end up thinking that sex is actually like it is portrayed in porn - and that can be pretty damaging, both to themselves and any partners they end up having.
Porn fills a gap though, and it's never going away. So as many people have said, Sex Ed should really step up to fill this gap in people's education.
[QUOTE=Azaz3l;42721091]Who the fuck puts "porn" in Google?[/QUOTE]
8 year old me went to [URL="http://www.sex.com"]www.sex.com[/URL], which I guess is just as bad (NSFW)
[QUOTE=Craigewan;42721460]Problem is that for some teens that is their only exposure to sexual practice, so they end up thinking that sex is actually like it is portrayed in porn - and that can be pretty damaging, both to themselves and any partners they end up having.
Porn fills a gap though, and it's never going away. So as many people have said, Sex Ed should really step up to fill this gap in people's education.[/QUOTE]
Therefore ther should be a larger emphasis on sexual practices and how sex usually happens. Teens should be taught the difference between Porn and "real sex". Porn itself should be discussed far more. When I had sex education we always talked about penises and vaginas, where to put them and why. It was fairly boring.
Porn is actually not always that bad and I don't think that porn will damage teens to much in the way that they percieve porn. Professional porn is pretty bad though, like I mentioned, it's really fake and absolutely not representative. Also it's hard to talk about "real sex" because everyone has different tastes when it comes to sex. I have to admit that I did some pretty porny-like stuff with my girlfriend but that is exceptional.
I just wish that teens would be taught the various ways you can have intercourse and why people use them.
Watching porn doesn't teach or make you learn about sex.
lol make love not porn, please
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If you could set a image as a title, then those two would be widely used.
[editline]1st November 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Cruma;42721560]lol make love not porn, please[/QUOTE]
But porn can be love recorded with a video camera.
[QUOTE=Van-man;42721592]If you could set a image as a title, then those two would be widely used.
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Only the first.
[QUOTE=junker154;42721510]I just wish that teens would be taught the various ways you can have intercourse and why people use them.[/QUOTE]
I can wait for the educational videos such as "But I Poop From There: The Pros and Cons of Ass to Mouth" and "The Aristocrats: A How-To Guide."
[QUOTE=deadoon;42721036]Frankly finding out about furries when I was 13 was among the more confusing things from my childhood.
Seriously, I was questioning why someone would draw a person with a dolphin's head and exposed tits for days.
I still have no clue why.[/QUOTE]
they are more sexualized than a human form could be and are fantastical
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