Our lives are more hypersexualized than ever nowadays, and the trends are disturbing.
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But getting back to what I was saying before, are we becoming overexposed to the X-rated? How does it affect us?
Take porn. Today, websites like YouPorn — the YouTube of porn — stream thousands of videos you can browse through for free. You can search by specific categories: Wife, Wife Swap … Puppets, Republicans, North Carolina Republicans … it gets more and more disturbing.
Who’s to say the psychological effect that kind of information overload will have on the younger ones?
When I grew up, porn basically consisted of waiting all afternoon for a JPG of boobs to load line by line on a Geocities page while a MIDI file of “How Bizarre” played on repeat.
Our parents were uncomfortable when we asked where babies came from — our kids are going to ask why some people are into bondage.
And what about the effect of porn on college-aged people? That’s even worse news.
Now, some research is showing that these limitless options can have detrimental physiological effects on our sex lives. It was even the subject of a TED talk.
