Oh, I truly believe it. Perhaps I was too terse and should have expanded a bit. It seems self-evident to me that if a man is using porn heavily for self-gratif

Oh, I truly believe it. Perhaps I was too terse and should have expanded a bit. It seems self-evident to me that if a man is using porn heavily for self-gratification, he's not going to view a randomly-met woman as a whole person (and vice versa? I don't really know), but instead will be judging her based on how "hot" she appears to him, or how she might feed his fantasies. (That's the "just body parts" in my original quip.) This is tremendously corrosive for society as a whole, and both sexes suffer the results. There was a HN link a while back (Three Myths about Porn: http://www.reuniting.info/science/three_myths_about_porn http://www.reuniting.info/science/three_myths_about_porn) which I think made a pretty good argument that online pornography is like crack cocaine to the male brain--a complete overload of normal circuits. (Even if the point of the containing site is, um, rather bizarre.) And it leaves many, many men hopelessly addicted.