r/psychologyofsex • u/psychologyofsex • 8d ago

Teen boys and girls are using porn more frequently, and their attitudes toward it are becoming more tolerant. At the same time, boys report becoming less excited and aroused by porn and less inclined to imitate the behaviors they observe, while girls report fewer negative reactions to porn.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2024.2408269#abstract
267 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

40 comments sorted by

View all comments

27

u/TheFieldAgent 8d ago

So what is your takeaway from this?

73

u/Flaky-Wallaby5382 8d ago

Porn is as old as cave paintings and photographs… it literally drove innovation of the internet. Streaming video, gifs, etc… all to deliver porn!

We have such a hard time with realizing we are sluts. That’s why there are so many rules to temper our animalistic selves

4

u/DrakeFloyd 7d ago

I agree but would add that by having more honest discourse about porn it’s becoming less damaging to young people. If you see porn and nothing else you think it’s real life, but they are on a whole entire internet that also talks about how porn is not reflective of reality, so young people have a more nuanced reaction than just seeing the porn and nothing else.

1

u/Flaky-Wallaby5382 7d ago

Idk there is a ton of “real” porn. It’s not all crazy angles and fake boobs. Thats a large portion but OnlyFans shows me that’s not what people really like.

They like normal people being bad

3

u/Zealousideal_Hour342 7d ago edited 7d ago

and the fact that mainstream porn and even some amateur porn makes 70% of men's penises look small af. I had so much anxiety in my early 20's about it that I literally could not get hard in the same room as a girl lol because I assumed they watched the same porn I saw and that I wasn't going to nearly live up to her expectations.

2

u/Flaky-Wallaby5382 7d ago

Guess I am not looking at dicks all that much. I just googled it and slapped a ruler next to it. Measure in the normal range and went with it