One thing is certain: we are in the midst of a massive social experiment, only the laboratory here is our world and the effects will be played out on people who never agreed to participate. The architects of the experiment are the pornographers, a group of (mostly) men who are out to maximize their profits: to create markets, find products that sell, invest in R&D, and develop long-term business plans. In short ... they are business men from start to finish, not innovators committed to our sexual freedom.
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While past generations of men who used porn had limited access to the material, this generation has unlimited access to gonzo porn. Nowadays the average age for first viewing porn is just eleven years. This means that, unlike before, porn is actually being encoded into a boy’s sexual identity so that an authentic sexuality — one that develops organically out of life experiences, one’s peer group, personality traits, family and community affiliations — is replaced by a generic porn sexuality limited in creativity and lacking any sense of love, respect, or connection to another human being.
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