A number of sex educators--myself included--have been concerned about the impact of mainstream porn on younger teens. There are two reasons: this is first time kids this young have had ready access to mainstream porn, and it's the first time mainstream porn has shown so many outrageous sex acts that few couples actually do or want to do.
So I would think by now that we would start to see some of this being reflected in the private sex fantasies of today's younger adults who have grown up with porn on the Internet. But that's not what I'm seeing as I am looking over the latest batch of sex survey answers from my website that were submitted by people ages 18 - 24.
Their reported sex fantasies are very much as I would have expected in the days before Internet porn. There was not a single fantasy of double penetration, ass-to-mouth, women peeing, or anything of the like which are the hallmark of today's mainstream porn.
As for anal sex fantasies, there's nothing new there, either. There were the usual number of males with fantasies of watching a woman from behind as she is undressing. But I would have expected more anal sex fantasies, given that mainstream porn has pretty much declared the female rectum to be the new vagina.
This isn't to say that I'm still not concerned about middle-school kids watching extreme sex acts on their smart phones and laptops that few prostitutes would agree to perform. But maybe our sex fantasies are wired to a more "old school" part of our consciounesses. Perhaps watching porn has little impact on the sexual fantasies we have.
I would greatly value your thoughts about this.
