“The 51 respondents who were asked about the effects of porn on their sex and dating lives; 51 percent said they felt advanced sexual expectations from themselves; 17.6 percent felt advance expectations from their partner(s); 33.3 percent and 2 percent, respectively, felt an increase or decrease in sexual frequency; and 23.5 percent felt “other,” encompassing responses varying from “unreal view of what sex is,” to “gives new moves to try, but doesn’t change expectations or frequency.”
Although Internet pornography is
traditionally more popular among men, about forty percent of Internet
pornography viewers are women. Pornography can have a negative affect on how women view their own bodies. Through media and advertisement and with the
recent mainstreaming of pornography in our media, we are constantly exposed to
the “ideal” thin body. Along with the thin “ideal” bodies that we see in
advertisements, movies, television and magazines, we are also seeing an “ideal”
body type in the pornography industry. Pornography and the “ideal” body in
media create unrealistic expectations of bodies, pleasures and desires.
Pornography also increases sexual expectations, causing people to feel the need
to live up to higher standards. In the article below, Whitney Strub, GLGBTQ advisor, explains that anti-porn
feminists’ central argument is that pornography does not express sexuality, but
illustrates a construction of sexuality. Anti-porn feminists argue sexual
construction is a patriarchal influence upon women, persuading their understandings
of themselves, their bodies, their sexuality, their desires and their pleasures. Pornography
can encompass an unrealistic expectation of the body, sexual roles and abilities.
With the constant publicity of all different
bodies in media, it is inevitable that people in society are going to compare
themselves to what they see. Comparison between bodies can lead to a distortion
of the body image that they have already created for themselves.
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