I was thinking among my acquaintances and thought of at least a couple more men whose lives are messed up due to porn. So I know at least 5, and I am a veritable hermit.
"I was thinking among my acquaintances and thought of at least a couple more men whose lives are messed up due to porn. So I know at least 5, and I am a veritable hermit."
It is probably very difficult, also, to determine the affects it has on marriages.
We know one couple who try to "spice up" their marriage by viewing porn.
Only -their marriage has only gotten worse.
Normal sex is no longer stimulating. They both are obsessed with how they look.
And they forget that the images they view are not real.
The people they are viewing don't look like that in real life - nor do they act like that in real life.
I remember reading an article where the journalist interviewed about 10 different porn stars about their lives.
Questions you would expect about their "career" and their normal sex lives.
Every single one of them was in the business because they were desparate for money.
Every single one of them was planning on getting out of the business.
And not a single one of them allowed their boyfriends to perform anal sex - they all hated it.
I thought or 2 or 3 more. Many of these are grown sons of friends. Many were "introduced" by other teenagers.
The facile lie that inanimate objects have no power is easily defeated by this argument:
If advertising had no effect, why would the advertising industry spend billions of dollars changing peoples' opinions and affecting their choices? People aren't dull stones. Everyone is affected by what they see, hear, and read. That's why education is hotly debated - skulls full of mush are influenced by what is fed to them. And adults are not immune from being affected either. The argument that porn doesn't affect people is a blatant lie.