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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I'm not sure that I buy this. I will grant that pornography produces a fantasy world of consequence-free sex in the form of pure, physical gratification, but the vast majority of people are capable of detecting and correctly decoding fantasy as wholly other than reality. There is no reason why one cannot enjoy the the fantasy at one moment, and then form healthy intimate sexual relationships in the next that are certainly even more gratifying. I'm not convinced that this is an "either / or" situation.
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I agree that people can keep the fantasy world and real world separate however I think the to worlds to affect eachother. But I think that fantasy creates a thought process and these thought processes can transfer outside the fantasy world. theycan change what you find arrousing, can expand your sexual interests. These effects could be both positive or negative. So while it is possible and even probable to have healty intimate relationships while viewing a large amount of porn there is risk.
I would also argue that exposure to teens who are just forming these views is potentially more damaging than to adults of have a framework of real relaionships to interpet fantsy.