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In reply to the discussion: Showing someone your dick is rape culture [View all]MineralMan
(151,467 posts)That's the problem. Some 13-year-old boy goes to pornhub and starts watching videos, clicking them at random. I remember being 13. I had some vague notion of what sex involved, but only a vague, naive notion.
This is the problem. Every kid has access to the Internet. While some parents are good about applying parental restrictions on browsers, most are not. So, 13-year-old boys, in general, have access to pornography in massive quantities.
I propose that what they are going to see is not in any way a representation of what they will encounter in real life. Instead, it is a distorted view of human sexuality that pretty much ignores women except as the "other."
When adults view porn, it's more likely that they will understand what is fantasy and what is more typical. But young guys? Not a chance. Their view will not be a view from knowledge. It will be a view from naivete. They may learn after a while that what they saw is not what they should expect, but they don't know that in the beginning.
That's the problem, really.