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Originally Posted by TheWriter

Ok, I've done a lot of studying on this. Pretty much every study you read finds that for the majority of American's, porn changes mens views of women. Obviously there are exceptions, but there are exceptions to every rule.

In ancient times, you would have sex with one partner, and supposedly noone else, but in todays world, teenagers will have sex multiple times before marriage, which causes AIDS, and other diseases.

Why are kids having sex so much more than before? Its because our culture has come to accept it. Just like gay partnerships, when something is considered acceptable, there is no reason to stop. Gays have been around throughout history, but very rarely do they actually become accepted. In today's society, for the most part, gays are accepted, and voila! Gay partnerships are skyrocketing.

Its the same with porn, playboy broke through the barrier, and porn became reasonably acceptable, then the internet shot the porn industry forward. And every year, AIDS increases as teen sex increases. Teens are being inundated with porn, and so they turn to their cute little girlfriend, and they've got some ideas about what to do for the next little while.

Porn is hurting our culture, because it is contributing to the spread of AID's and other sexually transported diseases.

I'm still pretty young, and I remember just a couple of years ago I was ridiculously sheltered by my parents, I didn't even date. Then, out of curiosity, I turned to porn, and now... well here I am. I know its bad for me, and I do look at girls differently, but its addicting.

Which is where the main problem lies. Porn is addicting. Porn hurts men and womens ability to marry. Look at divorce rates, 100 years ago they wer 5%, now they're over 50%.

So to conclude, porn definitely hurts our world, but I don't personally think that fantasies hurt our world. I personally have fantasies, and so I come to this board, I download movies, etc. But I only watch the parts where the women are being stripped, and not the actual nudity/rape. Because it does change you, and for me, that would be a bad change.

I'd say you are focusing too much on pornography alone when talking about several different aspects of society which have radicly changed during the last centuries. For example christianity had major role in determining the common moral values in society before the last century but the church's influence has been declining for a good time now.

The rise of pornographic industry has also been affected by the development of technology. Basicly porn has been existing as long as human have been able to communicate with each other but the technology to easily produce different kind of pornographic material has been accelerating the amount of pornographic material being produced and distributed. Also the growing distribution rate during last decades is largely due the commonly used capitalist systems which emphasize on the most basic instincts of human beings and thus increase their visibility.

In contrast there are still plenty of countries with very different kind of govermental and religious systems. For example in islamic countries the nature of porn differs greatly from western countries. Basicly the amount of "freedom" the people have might be the largest factor when it comes to the prevalence of porn in society.

It would propably be more relevant to watch the changes in so called common morals when considering divorsity rates and starting age for sexuals activities than just porn.

Blah, this whole subject is starting to feel like it streches pretty damn far.