Generation Porn 02

This is the second of twelve reasons to give up porn. There is so much more that could be said under this title than we did. But these few paragraphs are pretty confronting anyway.

1.             Porn wrecks your view of women (24)

Have you ever scored the physical features of a woman? Perhaps with your friends you’ve given a woman an eight out of ten for her breasts, or ranked women at work according to their appearance.

A number of studies have found that people exposed to pornographic material were significantly less sympathetic towards victims of rape.

The following is perhaps an extreme example, but hear the truth of it; particularly the last sentence:

“There is a girl I recruited when she was 18—a beautiful girl. I knew that she would make a lot of money. She did make a lot of money. She became successful. We shared the profits with her on the website that we made. When she would be out at parties, guys assumed that she was a “porn star” even though, at that time, she had actually not even engaged in anything sexual with another person. She was just posing nude alone and just doing videos alone. They assumed that since she was a porn star, they could take whatever they wanted from her, and she now has a child whom she will never know who the father is. She was passed out at a party one time, and they just took what they wanted.

This happened over and over again to different girls—not necessarily being raped like that, but guys just assuming when they walk up to them at a bar that this girl must be easy and willing to give whatever I want.”

(Donny Pauling, The Hardcore Truth, Covenant Eyes, p11)

Imagine you learn that someone from school / Uni appeared in an episode of Neighbours, or was on X Factor. Would that change the way you view that person? 

What if you learned that this person had done some porn videos? Would that change the way you viewed that person?