16 Things You Didn't Know about Porn
All the facts and how porn affects your brain, social behaviour, and attitude towards women in general. Which of these were most surprising to you?
By Sadho Ram — 26 Sep 2013, 06:37 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
1. Porn can confuse a person's perception of sex in real life
It makes real sex and even the real world boring in comparison. It particularly anesthetizes the emotional life of a man.
theresurgence.com2. Porn turns sex into masturbation
Sex becomes self-serving. It becomes about your pleasure and not the self-giving, mutually reciprocating intimacy that it was designed for.
theresurgence.com3. Women watch porn
Some women have been consuming and enjoying porn for a long time. And not just a fringe minority. One in three adults browsing Internet porn sites are women, according to Nielsen ratings.
alternet.org4. Male actors make far less than female ones
Porn is actually one of the few industries in the world where women, on average, draw a far higher salary than the men. While the average Buck Naked pulls in an average of $40,000 per year or $300-$400 or so per scene, female porn stars make about $100,000 to $250,000 per year
askmen.com5. Right now, 30,000 people are watching porn. And to meet that vast demand, a new porn video is produced every 39 minutes
7. Countries with the easiest access to hardcore pornography also have the lowest sex-crime rates in the world
A good example of this is Japan where a study in 1995 found: “[s]ex crimes in every category, from rape to public indecency, sexual offenses from both ends of the criminal spectrum, significantly decreased in incidence.
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Most significantly, despite the wide increase in availability of pornography to children, not only was there a decrease in sex crimes with juveniles as victims but the number of juvenile offenders also decreased significantly.”
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8. The body part that men focus on when watching porn is the woman's face
You read that right: eyes and lips win out over boobs and a badonkadonk, according to an eye-tracking study from the Kinsey Institute at the University of Indiana. The researchers speculated that guys look at women's faces to gauge how turned on they are.
9. There are more than 4.2 million pornographic websites
In 2001, there were around 70,000 adult websites. Today, just 12 years later, they are more than 4.2 million pornographic websites in the US alone. It does not take a math major to figure out that increase is tremendous.
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On a daily basis, there are around 68 million search requests for porn, and 2.5 billion spam porn emails. 20% of men admit to viewing porn at work during the working week, while 13% of women admit the same.
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10. Addiction to pornography leads to similar brain activity patterns found in alcohol and drug addicts
Researchers from Cambridge University found that MRI scans of 19 addictive pornography users showed that the reward centers of the brain reacted to explicit images in a similar way that an alcoholic might respond to liquor or beer advertisements.
11. You can rid your porn addiction. You just have to realize when you need help
If you've tried to stop watching porn on your own and have not been able to do it, you may need to seek outside help. Though you may be embarrassed to discuss the situation with another person, in the long run, you won't regret reaching out.
12. While it is illegal to sell or possess pornography in Malaysia, Internet pornography-viewing is not a crime under the Multimedia Act
Possessing pornographic material is subject to prosecution with fine up to RM10,000. Internet pornography-viewing however is not a crime under the Multimedia Act.
Condom shops selling sex toys and many sex-related products are illegal in Malaysia. However there are some shops selling them discreetly and can only be found in major towns and cities such as Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Kuching and Kota Kinabalu.
13. Watching porn makes men with low levels of agreeableness more sexist
Viewing pornography causes straight men with negative personalities to have a more sexist attitude towards women, with hostility towards women linked with sexual arousal.
14. Porn objectifies women
Porn objectifies women. It turns women into “things” that are only there to gratify a man’s sexual urge. Porn eliminates any need to connect with a woman emotionally or intellectually.
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15. Contrary to popular argument, pornography is not a victimless crime
Some people would have you believe that pornography is a victimless crime. That is not true. Pornography frequently takes advantage of and abuses underage or barely-18-year-old individuals, luring them into the industry with promises of wealth and fame.
Other performers are enslaved through drug and drinking habits or are simply abducted into sex-slave rings. These performers are coerced either implicitly or explicitly into performing increasingly-degrading sexual acts, with little hope of escape.
16. Porn changes the way women and girls think about their bodies, their sexuality and their relationships
The more porn images filter into mainstream culture, the more girls and women are stripped of full human status and reduced to sex objects. This has a terrible effect on girls' sexual identity because it robs them of their own sexual desire.
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