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Who has been exposed to hard core porn?


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Have you been exposed to porn and when?  

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    • No, never seen it.
      81
    • Yes, by 5 years old
      5
    • Yes by 10 years old
      19
    • Yes by 13 years old
      53
    • Yes, by 16 years old
      82
    • Yes, by 18 years old
      53
    • Yes, by 22 years old
      38
    • Yes, I was older than 22 years old
      32

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I'm starting this because I made an assertion in this topic that most Avenites were not exposed to hard core porn - and then I realized, I'm only assuming that based on what I've read... So... let's see if I was right.

And this is not a question if you LIKED it or if you continued to look at it... just if/when you were ever exposed.

For the sake of the poll I am making 22 as the latest bloomer age - in that if you don't hit sexual interest by then, chances are you aren't going to... I could be wrong, there may be later bloomers than that, but I didn't want to put more options... :)

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I'm not proud to say it, but I actively sought it out in early high school, so around 15 years old. Mostly I was curious, everyone else liked it, seemed I should too. I've seen all across the porn spectrum, tired to find something that appealed to me. Nothing did. I wouldn't say the porn affected my asexuality in any way, just further confirmed it more or less.

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I'm not proud to say it, but I actively sought it out in early high school, so around 15 years old. Mostly I was curious, everyone else liked it, seemed I should too. I've seen all across the porn spectrum, tired to find something that appealed to me. Nothing did.

Same story here. You can also substitute porn for cigarettes and booze: it was mainly because I wasn't supposed to have it that I was interested. Still, it got old fast, and by the time I was legal, it lost all intrinsic appeal.

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When I was sixteen, I went to this party thing and some of the guys put on this video one had stolen from his father. It was (obviously) porn, which I figured out relatively quickly...say, in about 1.5 seconds. I think I hightailed it out of the room in half that time.

So. Disgusting.

That was the first time I'd actually seen adult male *parts* and I really don't want to repeat the experience. I can't understand how people can possibly enjoy something like that...for me, it's the equivalent of watching someone throw up repeatedly for an hour on video. Ew.

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>Porn< - I wouldn't be surprised if what we considered porn when I was a kid is being used as commonly approved information hand outs in schools today. So my answer adresses the "hard core" mentioned in the thread title. That subsection I assume something with absurd role plays, enforcement, animals, varying tools and murder in the action. Such were part of the play in these movies: 8mm and Mute Witness neither of which were marketed as hard core porn ... so maybe my vote doesn't count.
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Thanks for the answers.

Tripple A: Perhaps it would not need to be hard core? I'm basically asking to prove or disprove the theory presented in the article I linked to in the other thread. (link above) :)

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I spent 5 years (in my late 40's) on a censorship panel in my country- I was the literary conduit - we looked at everything from snuff movies to male gay hardcore sex.

I found the snuff stuff utterly vile and was bewildered by the sadistic/mashichistic crap. OK, some people like this -dreck, but none of mine...

All i can say is,I have encountered rather more hard core porn of ALL kinds than most people ever do, and it left me - worried, about sanity-

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for me, it's the equivalent of watching someone throw up repeatedly for an hour on video

Funny you brought that up. I think there's a new genre of porn that simply involves people throwing up repeatedly on each other for long periods of time on video. How people get off to that, I have no idea.

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a-d: You can also substitute porn for cigarettes and booze: it was mainly because I wasn't supposed to have it that I was interested. Still, it got old fast, and by the time I was legal, it lost all intrinsic appeal.

Yep.

Although I'm still not legal and it's gotten old :roll:

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Just think, if it hadn't been illegal in the first place, it would have had all the appeal of broccoli ice cream.

It's no secret that a lot of minors are getting access to porn, and I'm sure that 99% of the ones who do aren't being victimized, but rather actively pursuing it on their own. It probably stems from all the admonitions and indoctrinations that it's bad for children but good for adults, and these are children who want to be adults ASAP. Maybe if no one gave a shit, people would lose interest all around. If people were selling hardcore porn magazines on the bottom shelves of newsstands along with Highlights and video game and sports magazines, I seriously doubt that all the little kids would go flock to the Hustlers. Then again, I could be wrong. As for underage smoking and drinking, it's certainly addictive, but still the main reason that people start young is because it's thrilling to eat the forbidden fruit, and so that they can be more adult-like.

Of course, when it comes to porn, tobacco, alcohol, and whatever else that's restricted by age, if legislators were to lower the age limits or get rid of them altogether, the social problems that they bring would not go away, and consumption by children would still go on, even if they're less enthusiastic about it. I just think that the restrictions in place today are only for the consciences of the responsible people in society. Certainly, if the people in charge were to go all out and attempt to eradicate all vices from society, that would really be the answer to all our problems... :roll:

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I'm not proud to say it, but I actively sought it out in early high school, so around 15 years old. Mostly I was curious, everyone else liked it, seemed I should too. I've seen all across the porn spectrum, tired to find something that appealed to me. Nothing did.

Pretty much the same for me. I couldn't remember if I was 16 or 17 (or younger) so I just chose 16. For me, however, there were a few things that... how would you say... I suppose, excited me? I don't know. There was a reaction, but it never really went anywhere. Definitely didn't happen with the vast majority of porn of any kind, and I've since chosen to stay away from the stuff that did 'turn me on' because it brought out some things in me mentally that I did NOT like and could probably be commited for in an instant. :x

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Early 20s... by which time I was already aware of my lack of interest in sex. My response: "Wow... this is boring!"

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Hallucigenia

I don't think that randomly putting this stuff where kids can use it is the answer to everything. Maybe porn is completely uninteresting for asexuals, but that doesn't necessarially mean it's uninteresting to sexuals. This is, after all, why they are called sexuals. Even a sexual child who doesn't want sex yet will start wanting it eventually, and when that happens, they will look back to the perceptions of pornography

Which might still be all right if the sex depicted in porn was anything like regular sex, but a lot of harm can be done to a child's perception of sex by the more hardcore types of porn, which depict degradation and even harm to women as the ultimate in sexual pleasure. To someone who actually desires sexual pleasure involving other people, you can see where the problem lies, I hope.

Does anybody remember this thread, where the magazine article was casually mentioning that one of the males interviewed had lost his virginity at eight because of watching porn? He didn't watch porn videos because they were forbidden, he watched them because his stepfather randomly left them out where an eight year old could watch them. That kind of shit shouldn't happen.

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I happen to agree. I was just saying that it probably wouldn't make much difference either way. Adults can be influenced in the same way by any deviant porn. I'm just trying to compare extremes. If any child had unrestricted access to hardcore porn, surely the problems in that would be obvious. Nevertheless, if it were strictly prohibited and strictly enforced, that still would not prevent people from being curious about and engaging in sexual perversions or crimes. In the middle ground, where any porn can be accessed by people over a certain age, then you're still going to have negligent schmucks who leave it lying around for their kids to stumble across. You can't win. Still, people who use common sense can prevent a lot of problems in their children early on, at least before they or their friends get Internet access.

If I were a child in this day and age, I and my friends would probably be constantly surrounded by porn. There's no stopping it, so it's probably just best for parents to educate children about the realities of sex versus porn, just like violence in real life versus movies. It's an important distinction to make, especially since porn can be all the more realistic.

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for me, it's the equivalent of watching someone throw up repeatedly for an hour on video

Funny you brought that up. I think there's a new genre of porn that simply involves people throwing up repeatedly on each other for long periods of time on video. How people get off to that, I have no idea.

I don't know how people get off to so many things. I recently went to the Erotic Museum in Los Angeles, California and they had this room that look like a mini theatre. A big giant screen and seats for anyone to sit on. I just could not believe what they where playing. I guess there's this new type of sci-fi porn made in 3D. It consisted of some fake, blonde, big-breasted, naked woman that got tangled in some wires and then it showed this nasty alien creature with a penis that was around two feet long and spun around, fondling her with its hands and mouth, and actually having sexual intercourse with her.

The video only lasted like 3 minutes but it was the weirdest, most morbid thing I have ever seen. I keep wondering, who in the world would enjoy this type of junk or even actually get off to it?

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I've never seen porn so I dunno' if I would have turned out differently if I had seen it. I DO have a feeling that it would have been time well wasted.

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... Perhaps it would not need to be hard core? ...

In that case move my vote from the bottom option 4 steps upwards.

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Dimethyl Mercury

I guess I'm in a minority here in that I sometimes find porn interesting, and even more occasionally downright fascinating. Instead of making it boring, the absence of sexual view on it for me opens up all kinds of questions and observations that most sexuals probably never see. The highly varied shape and size of participants, the acting skills (or not), wondering what they do on weekends, if their parents know they do this, what drove them to do it, where they got that cool hat etc.

Of course I'll never draw answers about sex itself from porn, as I'm pretty sure most sex in the world doesn't involve a massively floodlit set, pretentious moaning and other "acrobatics". But everything else in it just appeals to my scientific, inquistive mind.

*looks around at everyone's horror-struck faces*

What?

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I've been reading about pornography in my Gender & Popular Culture class. We were reading from a book called Bound and Gagged: pornography and the politics of fantasy in America by Laura Kipnis, in which the author actually analyzes pornography as a legitimate part of culture.

::wanders off::

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Hallucigenia

Analyzing pornography for its sociological implications actually sounds like a pretty fascinating realm of study, especially since the porn industry makes more money than Hollywood does these days. You could learn all kinds of things from it. The study would simply have to be done by someone well-informed who already had a clear idea of the difference between healthy and degrading sexual activities, and who was a lot less squeamish than I was.

It might be cool to see a well-informed indifferent-asexual and a well-informed respectful sexual teaming up on such a study - the sexual could explain all the emotional and interpersonal aspects that the asexual wouldn't pick up on, and the asexual would pick up on all kinds of little details that might pass the sexual by because they were thinking so hard about sex.

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Hawke:

Perhaps it would not need to be hard core? ...

Vikingo:

In that case move my vote from the bottom option 4 steps upwards.

Same here. If the likes of "Playboy" magazine are to be considered pornographic, then I wasn't even in my teens yet. But then, the same can be said for pretty much all of my friends, and I'm the only asexual in the lot...

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I was about 14 when I saw a glimpse of porn on a TV channel in my hotel room (we were travelling). Pretty disgusting. :?

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It's definitely an interesting read, Hallu. I'm not sure I agree with all of it's views, but I'd recommend giving it a shot. We'd only read a couple of chapters from the book though. It actually argues against the idea that pornography is awful and bad and evidence of "social decay" (her words), but that it can give insight on it's relation to current points in history and social movements.

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Lady Heartilly

I've seen like one-second clips of it every now and them, if you count the stuff they show on TV and in movies, but for the most part, I'd go with no. Making me sit through an entire one would be like torture session.

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Just think, if it hadn't been illegal in the first place, it would have had all the appeal of broccoli ice cream.

Actually, I have a recipe for broccoli ice cream around here somewhere... it sounded rather yummy.

As for porn, I've been exposed to it very little (and I believe most of that was animated, including something with tentacles that an ex-bf made me see a few minutes of), but I don't particularly care for kissing scenes in movies - I find the idea of porn gross.

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Never seen any real hardcore stuff.

I saw some relatively soft porn a couple of times when I was a kid. Found a magazine hidden behind a rock on a beach when I was about ten. I tore pages from it and sold them to my classmates at school for 10 pence each. Got into a hell of a lot of trouble when the teachers found out!

Then, when I was about 14, I was dog-sitting for friends and found a porn video. It didn't particularly gross me out or anything, I was just laughing at the terrible acting. At least I was laughing when I could breathe - the incredibly huge dog that I was looking after had decided to climb up onto my lap. 16 stone (230-or-so lb I think) of Pyrennean (or however the hell you spell it) Mountain Dog sprawled on top of you can get a little heavy.

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I might have seen some during a slumber party at a friend's house, before I was 10. I didn't know what I was seeing and I wasn't too interested anyway.

I don't know if it was "hard" or "soft" porn, and I don't remember it very well, and i don't have the experience with porn to tell the difference.

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