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In reply to the discussion: Yes, it was a Joke. But it points up a real question. [View all]Major Nikon
(36,899 posts)But the concerns you listed which originated with the 2nd wave rad-fem crowd just have no basis in fact or reality. It was never anything more than a poorly supported hypothesis which claimed that porn would cause men to rape women and it never happened. It's no different than 'erotoxins' and many of the other half-baked ideas that have come from the rad-fem and book burning crowd who try to conflate consensual adult behavior with non-consensual adult behavior.
As far as the idea of women having to compete with porn, I say so what? I can't make my dick vibrate or rotate like a corkscrew either. Does that mean I can't compete with a vibrator because some women chose that instead of sex? So yes, men probably should be aware that if they use porn to excess, it's probably going to have an effect on whatever physical sex life they may have, but I take a civil libertarian approach to things like this. If you don't have the freedom to do whatever you want with your own body, which may include jerking off while watching consenting adults fucking, then what freedom do you really have? Just because those things may not be my cup of tea or even if they may be harmful to those who chose to partake, doesn't mean I'm going to tell someone else they can't or shouldn't.