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Originally Posted by JSB  I see porn as the sexual equivalent of refined sugar: it appeals to a primal human instinct, but is an artificial "overload" of an adaptive biological urge.
Today, advertising, television, mainstream and pornography expose the average man to more intense, "appealing" sexual stimuli in one day than his ancestors experienced in an entire lifetime. For some people, pornography has jaded their sexual palate. The real live woman no longer excites them enough. Once again, the system has been artifically overloaded and the circuits have burned out; the adaptation has become maladaptive.
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We not only see more sexually appetizing content in one day than our ancestors did in a lifetime, most of us see more
people in one day than our ancestors had ever encountered. I was just marveling at this fact the other day, on a crowded Chicago street.
Excellent post, JSB -- I like the parallel to bad carbs.
This conversation reminds me of a quote from a recent Adam Carolla podcast (highly recommended), where they were singing the praises of masturbating to internet porn:
"I mean, sex is good too, but it's not the real thing."
It's undeniable that for some, pornography becomes a stifling, damaging force in their lives. You could make the counter argument that for many unwillingly celibate people (esp. men), it provides a release valve, giving them sexual gratification that might be frustratingly difficult to come by otherwise. It def fuels sexual compulsion in many cases, but we can't really know the degree to which it may turn potential Columbine killers into happy masturbators.
I'm a little wary of porn in that it is always pushing the boundaries. Can you imagine the porn of 2025? Will we see sites like 15midgets1donkey.com? (Not a real site...I hope).