How Porn Is Damaging the Next Generation
By Movieguide® Contributor
Porn is hurting the next generation, damaging their ability to create good real-life, romantic relationships.
“Over the last decade, the percentage of American men between the ages of 18 and 30 who reported not having sex in the preceding year exploded from 10 percent to 28 percent. In the three decades this statistic has been kept, this is by far the most significant percentage increase,” Relevant Magazine said.
“At an age when young men’s sex drives are highest, this generation of young men is having less sex than ever recorded. But this doesn’t mean that these men have no sexual desire. For a growing number of men alive these days in our ‘pornified’ society, their sexual desire for real women is being replaced by a desire for images and fantasy,” the outlet continued.
Dr. Mark Regnerus, a researcher and sociologist, explained why porn is the cause of this new statistic.
“The quality of porn and masturbation may well have reached a level significant enough to satisfy many men,” he said, “such that the pursuit of real sex with real women…seems no longer a benefit worth the costs of wooing…They may not declare virtual sex ‘great sex,’ but they may conclude that it’s good enough.”
Even in faith circles, over half of American Christians admit to viewing pornography.
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The prevalence of porn impacts men and women alike. Celebrities like John Mayer and Billie Eilish are among those who admitted that the explicit content destroyed their brains.
Mayer said that he would prefer fantasy and masturbation rather than sex with women, and “Through watching porn, he has rewired his brain for what arouses him.”
Eilish shared her experience with the damage caused by the content.
“As a woman, I think porn is a disgrace,” she said on an episode of The Howard Stern Show. “I used to watch a lot of porn, to be honest. I started watching it when I was like 11. I think it really destroyed my brain and I feel incredibly devastated that I was exposed to so much porn.”
She admitted because she watched porn, it changed the way she viewed “sex, dating, and herself in general.”
“The first few times I, you know, had sex, I was not saying no to things that were not good. It was because I thought that’s what I was supposed to be attracted to,” she explained. “I’m so angry that porn is so loved, and I’m so angry at myself for thinking that it was OK. Women’s bodies don’t look like that. We don’t come like that.”
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