How pornography changes our (sexual) attitudes

"It is the prevalence of pornography consumption among children that is most striking. In a study in 2000, 25% of children aged 10-17 had seen unwanted online pornography in the form of pop-ups or spam. By 2005 the figure was 34% — and 42% of children aged 10-17 had seen pornography, whether wanted or unwanted. In another study in Canada, 90% of boys aged 13 and 14 and 70% of girls the same age had viewed pornography. Most of this porn use had been over the internet. More than one-third of the boys reported viewing pornographic DVDs or videos “too many times to count”.

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When I interviewed young women about their attitudes to sexuality, I was struck by one apparently trivial fact: that all of them agreed that they would never want to have sex if they hadn’t depilated their pubic hair.

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Many women bring us Playboy and say that they want to look like this. With laser reduction labioplasty, we work with women to try to accomplish their desires.”

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Women scarred by the myth that selling sex is a positive career choice"

Read all the article here. Source: The Times



And here a comment to an article about Chinese "foot massage girls", from ChinaSmack:

"This is the reality in China. In fact, foot massage girls are like prostitutes. Since they’re seen as prostitutes anyway, it’s better to just do it. Then money comes fast, and you live better. These days, being poor is worse than being a whore."