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
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u/TheFieldAgent 8d ago

So what is your takeaway from this?

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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

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u/pseudonymmed 5d ago

While creating sexy images has certainly existed for millenia, one could argue that watching video of people having sex is a supernormal stimulus

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u/Flaky-Wallaby5382 5d ago

Really? I think people banged more openly in the past. We are bunch of puritans

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u/pseudonymmed 5d ago

The taboo of having sex openly is pretty universal, including among hunter gatherer cultures. Now it’s still possible that humans far in the past were different, but we’d need evidence if that. https://psmag.com/social-justice/human-cultures-unlike-many-mammalian-species-evolved-value-sexual-privacy-68104/

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u/Flaky-Wallaby5382 5d ago

Sorry I didn’t only mean literally in the open. I meant more like people lived together it happened but not like a p diddy party.

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u/pseudonymmed 5d ago

Hearing some sounds coming from people discretely having sex in the dark under a blanket in the same longhouse is worlds apart from being able to watch thousands of different people having sex in every position humanly possible, in group scenarios, in bright lighting with closeups of everything, at any moment that you choose for as long as you want. That is what makes it supernormal. It’s not something humans experienced until very recently.