Pornography and Sexual Fantasies

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How do people satisfy curiosities? It used to be that people satisfied curiosities by asking other individuals about the topic, or even looking up the answer in a book. In today’s world, any curiosity can be entertained by performing a web search of the curiosity one has. This form of discovering something new is easy and fast. This method of accessing information sounds great, but what happens when an adolescent has a sexual curiosity? He or she will most likely type something sexually related into a search engine and very quickly encounter explicit content, which does more than just satisfy the individual’s sexual curiosity. This will arouse further interest in the content, and want to explore the uncensored world of pornography. This cascade effect results in exposure to forms of pornography, generally defined as anything that depicts sex, which are anything but related to real sex. Therefore, viewing pornography before having sex for the first time results in dissatisfaction with the sexual encounter, due to the fact that the individual was able to judge and compare the experience to previously viewed pornography, while someone who has never watched pornography is less likely to view his or her first sexual experience negatively, because there is no preconceived notion of what sex should be like.

Individuals who watch pornography over an extended period of time tend to distort the meaning of sex, as well as the anatomical realities of it. Pornography is a staged sex, and from watching these explicit videos, viewers subconsciously create sexual fantasies similar to, or mimicking the video that had been watched. In addition to this, these individuals are falsely led to believe that sex in pornography is exactly like sex in rea...

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... what it truly is, not what it artificially could be. Teenagers tend to find porn as a form of sexual education, and try to learn about sex from it. In reality, pornography sex and real sex are two completely different things. Because so many individuals are viewing pornography as teens and have easy access to it, they are taught to view sex as it is portrayed in the pornographic videos. From this, one can determine that pornography gives people a misrepresentation of sex, and a differed view of sex.

Works Cited

Castleman, Michael . "The Real Problem with Porn: It's Bad for Sex." Psychology Today 31 July 2012: 2,3. Print.

Howard, Roger. "Anticipating an "Anything Goes" World of Online Porn: Increased Exposure to More-Intensive Pornographic Imagery and Content Online Will Make Future Generations Less Sensitive to Its Effects." The Futurist 1 May 2012: 42. Print.

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