Why Is This Important?
Because the MRA movement does seem to coincide with the previous decade’s rise in easily accessible hardcore smut.
Long Story Short
New research indicates that when boys meet porn, they grow up to become men with ‘playboy norm’ attitudes towards women.
Long Story
If you ask any older gentleman what his first experience with pornography was like, it was probably a hard-won stash of crusty, fourth-hand nudie mags that were all mysteriously difficult to open. He’ll most likely recount a legacy of panicky, unfinished wanks as Mum came knocking with chores or Dad fully barged in wondering who touched the thermostat, and if you’ve ever wondered why a whole lot of middle-aged guys are red and sweaty all the time, it’s gotta be that hardened backlog of unrealeased adolescent sperm.
That was then, this is now: Pornography of frightening degrees has been available at the tap of a Google search for well over a decade now, with free streaming sites such as delectable PornHub becoming mainstream institutions in the past few years. Whatever you want, it’s out there (and some of us want some pretty out-there stuff). Much has been written (and counter-written) on the suspected physiological effects of over-exposure to porn, but not much in the way of its developmental impacts have been explored.
Until the University of Nebraska-Lincoln surveyed 330 males aged between 17 to 54, that is. The researchers quizzed their charges about how they felt about women, sexuality and porn. On average, respondents were about 13 when they first found themselves naked in front of the computer, with the oldest being 26 and the youngest being an almost unbelievable five years old. 43% claimed their first adventure in porn was an accident, while 33% said they actively, even hungrily sought out some smut, and 17% said they were forced into viewing it by someone else. What the ever fucking fuck? 6% declined to answer at all.
The takeaway that stunned the room was that the younger the male was when he first looked at porn, the more likely he was to express a belief that men should dominate women. Inverse to expectations, the older the male was when he first stumbled over what accounts for most of the internet, the more likely he was to display unusually heightened sexuality and a keener interest in multiple sexual partners. The researchers believed that the younger set would be rife with both misogyny and promiscuity, not just the former.
“There’s not been a lot research into masculinity and pornography. We don’t have a lot of theories that would explain this unexpected inverse relationship between pornography use and playboy norms,” admitted researcher Chrissy Richardson.
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Ask The Big Question
So is porn now breeding a generation of sexless women-haters?
Disrupt Your Feed
Did no one think to inquire further about the whole someone forced me into viewing porn thing?
Drop This Fact
A previous study circa 2008 estimated that around 87% of males at prime wanking age (from the onset of high school ‘til death, effectively) admitted to drinking in porn through the eyeballs and pissing it back out again in rivulets of their actual balls, while half that number claimed to view it “weekly.” Being that you can get PornHub in the hairy little palm of your hand now, we’ll take it that by ‘weekly’ they meant ‘I’m barring up under the table right now over Mia Khalifa’s collected works.’
Credit: Toby McCasker
Re-post from: AskMen
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