Comment by elcritch

3 days ago

> But the material is the same, and this notion that somehow, today's boys and young men are worse for this exposure than their predecessors is insidious and deeply ignorant.

No what's ignorant is ignoring the prevalence and nature of modern online pornography. Hopefully you realize that having the worst of what previous generations might've been exposed occassionally to by copying grainy VHS videos is literally a few clicks away now.

Much like social media it's pushed constantly onto them (well all us men). It's a giant predatory industry with a very addictive product.

It's not a reputation thing because it's about how destructive it is to society as a whole to both men and women. It's a very different sort of destructive behavior than previous generations might've had.

> hugely unjust to the overwhelming majority of young men who flinch from the idea of hurting a woman in bed or out of it

There's lots of great young guys out there. How about we not regress due by allowing new rampant destructive influences. That's my perspective.

We're seeing huge upticks in "incels" and "red-pilled" young men now. IMHO that's largely influenced by pervasive (mysoginist) pornography.

Even then, apparently young women don't agree with you as recent polls show young women don't view men favorably anymore [1]. So apparently something, or many things, are going wrong.