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Generation Rapist: Is online porn making boys violent?

I don't know the answer, but I definitely think overexposure to porn creates sexual dysfunction, as normal sexual encounters cannot live up to unrealistic porn fantasies.

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Jahar Aabye

oh for fuck's sake...

Maybe I should write an article titled "are we raising a generation of nitwits with such little critical thinking ability that it's shocking when they manage to tie both shoes?"

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Free Xue

I hear online porn was a big problem in ancient Rome as well.

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Wrong Weatherwax

I don't know if it causes violence but I've got some hella-bad carpal tunnel.

Seriously though, while I think the list provided in the article isn't all that far off. Yes, we should be talking to our kids (in my opinion) at an early age about sex and responsibility and about consent and harm. However, the article seems like a mish mosh of topics that tell little or even delve little into the actual subject. It seems more like "conclusion by suggestion" rather than an actual piece of journalism.

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Essence Lumin

I saw a tv show last night about how video games can cause violence. They never mention the possibility that violent tv shows might too. Presumably because they are talking about it on tv.

Roxie Marten

The second thing printed after the bible on the new printing press was porn

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Rebel Television

This same argument has been used against non-violent hardcore pornography, softcore nudity, and legalized prostitution, often without any shred of empirical data, and often doing more harm than good.

Here's an idea: what if easy access to pornography, in many cases within a private space, has actually been good for the mental health of children? Outlandish, yes, but they have no more evidence than me.

Wrong Weatherwax

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Shiloh Lyric

I don't agree that it causes violence, but I do think it can give impressionable young men unrealistic ideas about sex.

For example...I don't believe for one second that most women wear hooker heels in bed.

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Seyla Warden

Haha I read three paragraphs and had to quit. They are just throwing whatever they can think of against the wall and hoping something will stick.

Are 'kids these days' more violent? Maybe. Is porn the cause (rather than, say, growing up in the middle of a class war or being religiously indoctrinated from a young age or or or)? Anything is possible, but simple going 'some kids watch violent porn, also some kids are violent' is hardly definitive.

Do they call out violent television programs? Or violent movies? I bet they don't. They'll cite violent video games though - television and movies are socially accepted and inviolate, porn and video games are immoral and childish respectively and thus acceptable scapegoats.

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Evola

Maybe they all go hand in hand, and whether it's a cause or not is a bit of a chicken vs. egg debate

Also, I don't know if kids are more violent, but I'd say our society is much angrier in general.

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Shiloh Lyric

Hoo-boy! When I read the comments, sometimes, on certain news article, I realize it's NOT the kids of today we need to watch out for. It's their parents!

Seyla Warden

I'd go so far to say that living in today's (frankly, poisonous) society is a good part (if not the majority) of the reason for any increased violence.

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Amity Slade

Easy access to violent porn plus lack of supervision plus less in-person socialization? That is a great recipe for disaster.

It can't be blamed all on the porn. Though, I am pretty sure I remember that my "How Babies Are Made" book did not have chapters on being choked or taking it in the face. Times are changing.

Essence Lumin

As far as the porn thing goes it is clear to me most women are doing it for the money. Some are being seriously abused, some don't mind - it's a big paycheck, and on rare occasions, they enjoy it.

Excluding the serious abuse type of porn there are choices for a limited education woman to make. Work at McDonalds for minimum wage or make a $1000+ in a day? I think the choice isn't so obvious.

Evola

At the end of the day though, both thrive by preying on broken people(walmart makes an even better example than mcdonald's, preying on both broken people and broken communities)

Kamilah Hauptmann

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Brenda Archer

And of course the rate of rape wouldn't have anything to do with a moralizing right wing culture that wants to frame sexual ethics in terms of purity (usually female purity) rather than consent. So we have right wing preachers claiming consent is not a suitable standard for morality and institutions that look the other way or even persecute the victim when someone is raped.

Rapists get a lot of encouragement from our twisted society. I think it's getting worse, too. But I don't think that any kind of entertainment is the cause, but rather institutional messages that women's safety is low priority and that rape is not really a crime.

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Essence Lumin

This is not new in the US. Up until some point in the 60's it was legally impossible for a man to rape his wife.

Syo Emerald

I want to see a single piece of data that shows, that the violence has increased in general. Really this all sounds more like "when I was your age..." and "everything was better in..." and not really like a valid source.

Porn existed long before the internet and all crimes known to mankind didn't start with some naugthy moving pictures. I can't really get a conection between both. Watching porn at a young age is just a tiny piece of a whole situation. Like the top of an iceberg with most of its content not visible.

Oh and the last big news about sexual abuse was in the church, an organisation so far away from any porn or to say so far away from any healty sexual education.

eku Zhong

lots of shoes have velcro nowadays .. or like crocs .. you just slip on.

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