A new study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that porn has become “a primary source of sexual education” that is embedding new codes of sexual behavior in young men. The survey of 487 American males of college age indicates that “the more pornography a man watches, the more likely he was to use it during sex, request particular pornographic sex acts of his partner, deliberately conjure images of pornography during sex to maintain arousal, and have concerns over his own sexual performance and body image. Further, higher pornography use was negatively associated with enjoying sexually intimate behaviors with a partner.”
Author’s note: The porn addiction pandemic has inadvertently generated a sort of aversion therapy gone haywire; the opposite of what porn sells – a fantasy world of endless sexual pleasure and perverse excesses that has actually created, not the symbolic macho-man (hyper-masculine, ravenous, and always equipped) from the golden-age of porn in the 1970s, but a peevish impotent male filled with doubts, hang-ups, and fears. In essence, porn constructs the perfect porn consumer: a person so reliant upon pornography that they are unable to function sexually without it – a slave.