"...It's a kind of education to kids about what sex is like before they have a real education of it."
That education involves seeing thousands of explicit sexual images by the time a person reaches his teenage years. Experts say that exposure can make real-life sex a letdown for men driven by porn-style fantasies. -- Newsweek on The Porning of America (Beacon, 2008)
This strikes home, particularly the notion that too much porn makes real-life sex a letdown. I would play the Devil's advocate though, by saying what's called for is a more moderate, ethical consumption of porn. Television also makes real-life life a letdown, right? And as Don Quixote teaches us, stories in general can make life in general intolerable, to the point that we choose the fantasy instead. That doesn't mean we stop reading books or watching television.
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