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December 7th, 2006, 11:16 PM
I sometimes wander to smh.com.au blogs and find some interesting topics. Here is one for you.
This is IN relation to Porn and how porn has degenerated (or evolved) from the basic vouyerism in the 70's or 80's and comparing it with today having so much like like.. just say its different.
Now because of it, the new generation of porn wankers have started watching these types of porn and therefore thier mentality has evolved making them lose actual reality from Porn to Real Sex.
This article is actually a blog and this blog has linked it to a survey (should you even wish to participate but the hypothesis theories are actually interesting.
All right gentlemen, start your todgers, it's time for you to reveal a little about yourselves.
A couple of months ago, I wrote a blog on How internet porn is changing your sex life, detailing my theory that easy access to hard-core and humiliating sexual imagery was redefining the sexuality of a generation of men.
The blog got a huge response and still ranks as the most viewed item I've written here, with readers including some from the clinical psychology faculty at Queensland's Bond University.
Masters student Tessa Hall got in touch with me shortly afterwards and asked for help with research she is conducting into the effects of net porn on attitudes towards sex and the quality of relationships.
I've often bemoaned the lack of data and research in this area, so I've decided to unzip and get personal with Tessa and I'd like you all to join us ...
A thesis is only as good as its hypothesis, and Tessa has two beauties that I'd like you to consider.
Hypothesis 1
a) Sex (specifically orgasm) is dopaminergic, and therefore similar to activities such as gambling, eating and substance use.
b) In all other appetitive behaviours, habituation is observed, whereby the user needs more or more frequent stimulation to get the same effect.
c) Pornography exposure alone is unlikely to create habituation. However, the coupling of exposure, with the dopamine release associated with orgasm, is likely to create habituation. Therefore frequent masturbators are more likely to experience a "drift" in their interests from straight hetero or homosexual practices, into more novel (and hence arousing) sexual territory.
Hypothesis 2
a) According to sexual researcher Alfred Kinsey, virtually no one masturbated to erotic literature or images in 1950. We know that had changed by 1970. The X-rated films Deep Throat and The Story of O moved pornography from the boutique into the mainstream.
b) Sociologists tell us that porn has been getting nastier since then. Standard pornographic practices now do not involve two individuals moving through the Kama Sutra and onto climax. Rather, much modern porn includes elements of bisexuality, bondage, verbal and sexual humiliation as well as more specialist fetishist practices.
c) People in their 20s no longer learn about sex from their older sibling, or looking at a Playboy. They learn about sex by watching pornography.
d) It is therefore likely that those who learn about sex from hard-core modern porn will learn that the behaviours described above are normal. This may be a cohort effect (e.g. that anyone under 25 will display this belief, and anyone over will not). Or it may be an effect related to pornography exposure.
link
http://blogs.smh.com.au/lifestyle/allmenareliars/archives/2006/12/masturbation_a.html
So what you think? Could this be another form of ammo for people against porn? (refering to the World W/o Porn thread)
This is IN relation to Porn and how porn has degenerated (or evolved) from the basic vouyerism in the 70's or 80's and comparing it with today having so much like like.. just say its different.
Now because of it, the new generation of porn wankers have started watching these types of porn and therefore thier mentality has evolved making them lose actual reality from Porn to Real Sex.
This article is actually a blog and this blog has linked it to a survey (should you even wish to participate but the hypothesis theories are actually interesting.
All right gentlemen, start your todgers, it's time for you to reveal a little about yourselves.
A couple of months ago, I wrote a blog on How internet porn is changing your sex life, detailing my theory that easy access to hard-core and humiliating sexual imagery was redefining the sexuality of a generation of men.
The blog got a huge response and still ranks as the most viewed item I've written here, with readers including some from the clinical psychology faculty at Queensland's Bond University.
Masters student Tessa Hall got in touch with me shortly afterwards and asked for help with research she is conducting into the effects of net porn on attitudes towards sex and the quality of relationships.
I've often bemoaned the lack of data and research in this area, so I've decided to unzip and get personal with Tessa and I'd like you all to join us ...
A thesis is only as good as its hypothesis, and Tessa has two beauties that I'd like you to consider.
Hypothesis 1
a) Sex (specifically orgasm) is dopaminergic, and therefore similar to activities such as gambling, eating and substance use.
b) In all other appetitive behaviours, habituation is observed, whereby the user needs more or more frequent stimulation to get the same effect.
c) Pornography exposure alone is unlikely to create habituation. However, the coupling of exposure, with the dopamine release associated with orgasm, is likely to create habituation. Therefore frequent masturbators are more likely to experience a "drift" in their interests from straight hetero or homosexual practices, into more novel (and hence arousing) sexual territory.
Hypothesis 2
a) According to sexual researcher Alfred Kinsey, virtually no one masturbated to erotic literature or images in 1950. We know that had changed by 1970. The X-rated films Deep Throat and The Story of O moved pornography from the boutique into the mainstream.
b) Sociologists tell us that porn has been getting nastier since then. Standard pornographic practices now do not involve two individuals moving through the Kama Sutra and onto climax. Rather, much modern porn includes elements of bisexuality, bondage, verbal and sexual humiliation as well as more specialist fetishist practices.
c) People in their 20s no longer learn about sex from their older sibling, or looking at a Playboy. They learn about sex by watching pornography.
d) It is therefore likely that those who learn about sex from hard-core modern porn will learn that the behaviours described above are normal. This may be a cohort effect (e.g. that anyone under 25 will display this belief, and anyone over will not). Or it may be an effect related to pornography exposure.
link
http://blogs.smh.com.au/lifestyle/allmenareliars/archives/2006/12/masturbation_a.html
So what you think? Could this be another form of ammo for people against porn? (refering to the World W/o Porn thread)