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There has always been porn. IME, it served several roles, but generally did not replace the desire to be in a relationship or at least physically intimate with

There has always been porn. IME, it served several roles, but generally did not replace the desire to be in a relationship or at least physically intimate with another person. Sure, porn is more available and more potent in a sense now, and it may be a factor, but I think at most it is a minor one. Something else is making kids introverted and isolated.

borumpilot 8y ago
40 years ago, when I started my interest in porn, it was... different. Both in availability and in "potentness". Skip forward 40 years, I have a bunch of millennial kids. Their (for me discoverable) sexual encounters are extremely limited in comparison to mine and that of my wife, at that age. Personally I do not think that the one (porn) has much to do with the other (limited). What I suspect is far more the lack of privacy and anonymity. Everyone in their age group seems afraid of the potential flack they will receive “when people find out I did X with Y”. And with the current over connectivity that seems a real possibility. Whereas we, between 15 and 25, could disappear for a couple of hours / days, and the lamest excuse would enable you to get away with anything. I truly do not envy this generation. It seems growing up, as in establishing your own personality and experiences, is so much harder.