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A new survey reveals that increasing numbers of teenagers are learning how to have sex from watching internet porn.
Paid actors?
This statement is probably very false. Internet porn is just as much a collection of unpaid everyday individuals as it is paid actors.
By making this statement you are showing your lack of knowledge on the subject.
I think in our culture, everything is sexualized, but none of it can be talked about. As a result, kids need to understand their sexuality at a younger age. If their parents won't talk to them, then they use the internet.
That last paragraph of yours-
That last paragraph of yours- we all know this, it's the consequences that are wondered about. Whether they're looking at paid actors or ordinary people, a sex act is going to be exaggerated for the camera, especially if the whole world can see it. The question is more to do with what teenagers who've grown up with easily accessed images will do- will this make them view sex as a freer, more generally accepted thing to do, or will it become even more dark and dirty after the first taste of porn becomes dull and more hardcore images are searched for? (that sounds a little extreme, but still)
You fail to consider what
You fail to consider what life is like outside of modern New York or LA.
Most of humanity throughout most of history has learned about sex while on a farm in a one room building (if they were lucky). They watched the animals. They may have watched Mom and Dad, older siblings, etcetera. Sex was not mystified because it was too expensive to do so.
With free time and money to invest in religious activities and improved building methods, things changed.
What we are seeing now is not so much of a departure from the norm as a return to it.
I don't think its that hard
I don't think its that hard of a question to answer, mostly because there isn't just one correct answer. Yes it will make some more open and free about sex, and of course some will take the path that leads to the most extreme "dark and dirty" porn imaginable. There is going to be some messed-up results from long term porn usage on a large social scale and a personal scale.
It's not a return to the norm. Porn itself is created to stimulate the body. It is for the sole purpose of the viewer's enjoyment. I doubt those living on the hillbilly "farm" got any sexual pleasure out of watching farm animals or parents having sex. There's a very discernable line between sex-ed and porn.
Pornography Will Help Abolish Circumcision
The many boys and men watching pornography will notice that some men have foreskins and others don't. Those who have had their foreskins removed without their consent are going to have "foreskin envy" and be very angry about what was taken from them. They will notice that their equipment does not function fully. (The foreskin glides over the glans and back.) The foreskin is also the most sensitive part of the penis. When these young people get angry and vocal enough, that will stop circumcision.
Frank girl talk, not porn, will sentence RIC to death.
Your heart is in the right place, but you overstate the case. Straight porn never lingers over the foreskin or reveals what it can do. European and Latin American porn does feature intact males, but it is easy to miss that fact. Gay porn often does highlight the foreskin, on the other hand, but most of us don't watch gay porn.
If watching porn is giving rise to nontrivial foreskin envy among straight young men, they are keeping mum about that...
American routine infant circumcision is a sexual evil, make no bones about it, and it should stop ASAP. But I doubt that the eventual death of RIC will prove to be collateral damage from the rise of internet porn. A more likely way forward here is for young women who have experienced both and prefer intact, to share their experiences with their primmer sisters. Women are very much social creatures who like to imitate what is in fashion. And the male foreskin is coming back into fashion.
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