Very interesting reading, these postings...

Why do some males, of all ages, gravitate to porn? The obvious answer for a twelve year old boy would be curiosity. During the parent-child talks, concerning sex, it's to be made certain the parent not only honestly discusses pornography, but, as well, speaks of its self-diminishing effects upon a person's psyche. Teaching children that viewing acts in which human beings are diminished, degraded, brutalized, or portrayed as mere objects, in any way, including sexual, is unacceptable, and detrimental.

Why do adult males, in loving relationships in which mutually enjoyed sex is a part, seek out porn? I'd have to say, if they are first timers, my answer, for number one reason, would be again, curiosity. For men who have long had a taste for porn, which may have begun with the forbidden viewing of girlie-magazines when in their teens, I think it could be just an on-going habit, from which they either never outgrew, or, one in which they found so much enjoyment, they never abandoned. A possible lack of maturation, as far as sex is concerned. A possible retardation of their view of sex.

Along with the reasons above, there are probably as many different reasons men view porn, as there are men. I firmly agree with the statement concerning the ready availability of pornography via the internet, as being in part, a cause. Something that for so long, was banished to the shelves in some back room of a shop, or store, or warehoused in some mail-order facility, now can be accessed with but the typing in of a single-word search term. Men who may have always had a bit of curiosity, concerning porn, but may have hesitated satisfying that curiosity from fear of being publicly discovered, of being labeled low, brutish, perverted, can, in the privacy of their own homes, indulge that curiosity, anonymously. Often once that initial curiosity has been satisfied, they are done with it. It holds no charm for them.

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