[perhapss]

I, for one, welcome our new Overlords and Masters, the Humboldt Squid. They are the army of their mighty God Cthulhu!!

well they don`t make em like they used to.....
 

 

[ProtegeManiac]

 
Wait, teen pregnancy rates have dropped? X3 Sorry, man. I need a citation on that one, hahaha. I thought they were going up! That would be pretty awesome, though.

 

In 2013, a total of 273,105 babies were born to women aged 15–19 years, for a live birth rate of 26.5  per 1,000 women in this age group.1 This is a record low for U.S. teens in this age group, and a drop of 10%  from 2012.

http://www.cdc.gov/teenpregnancy/about/index.htm

 

The teen birth rate has declined almost continuously over the past 20 years...Still, the U.S. teen birth rate is higher than that of many other developed countries, including Canada and the United Kingdom.

http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/adolescent-health-topics/reproductive-health/teen-pregnancy/trends.html

 

Just because we have dumb Reality TV including one called "16 and Pregnant" it doesn't necessarily mean that more teens are getting pregnant. More teens are more aware of contraceptives and the economic costs of raising a child, the ones that fail in both counts are just treated as "brave" by their families to bolster them up or be allowed to act like idiots on camera so they can afford to keep the child, and AFAIK there are also less children ending up in orphanages and state care from teen mothers. Think of it in terms of the reduction of victim stigma and the rise of reports of sex crimes - victims have less to fear compared to previous eras and report more, but alarmists and moralists only see that the number of crimes are up and then blame it on porn or whatever. It's actually funny, that social stigma, because in 509BC, that stigma 1) did not stop Lucretia from gathering the Junii to tell them of what happened (then stabbing herself right after), and 2) it didn't stop Brutus from seeing it as shameful of Tarquins (instead of shame on the Junii) as he paraded her body around Rome and compelling the people to swear the same oath that the Junii did (this is the same oath that the Pompeians used to compel his descendant to stick a knife into Caesar).

 

 

 

 

[Redcarmoose]

Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years.1, 2
The percentage of children aged 6–11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 18% in 2012. Similarly, the percentage of adolescents aged 12–19 years who were obese increased from 5% to nearly 21% over the same period.1, 2
In 2012, more than one third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese.1
Overweight is defined as having excess body weight for a particular height from fat, muscle, bone, water, or a combination of these factors.3 Obesity is defined as having excess body fat.4
Overweight and obesity are the result of “caloric imbalance”—too few calories expended for the amount of calories consumed—and are affected by various genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors.5,6







I wonder what the trend is when you mix porn stars with reproductive reality?

 

[perhapss]

Anyone here (other tun me) old enough to remember the PMRC back in the 80s??
There are many fine lines between art, porn, morals, censorship and broadcasting.
 
Which makes me wonder why this thread exists on Headfi and hasn`t been locked.....

 

[SunByrne]

I am not entirely convinced that porn is the primary causal factor in this. First of all, I'm not fully sold on there being a "this" in the first place. The fact that the people who run the "your brain on porn" web site won't say who they are makes me more than a little suspicious, and some of the "analysis" they give of studies they don't like border on name-calling. It's certainly not the most credible scientific discourse I've ever seen and I worry that the data have been really cherry-picked. The highlighted use of anecdotal accounts is also not particularly reassuring. You can find anecdotal accounts of just about everything, valid or otherwise. I'm also distressed by the pseudoscienfic neurobabble that shows up all over the site and the weird puritanical vibe doesn't help either.

That doesn't automatically mean it's wrong and there's nothing real here, but let's just say I'm suspicious.

Second, even if there is anything real here, there are a lot of things that have changed in our world in the last 20 years, and so the "well, the prevalence of ED among young men is up" (pun definitely intended) does not isolate porn as the causal factor. Literally everything I could find that wasn't anecdotal was correlational. I mean, yes, it could be porn, but it could be other things, too. Nutrition/obesity would be the first place I'd probably look, but there are other possibilities as well. Increased cultural emphasis on body image, environmental/chemical factors, increased willingness to acknowledge/report ED in the first place—I'm sure I could think of other possibilities, and so could lots of you. Again, porn could be the causal factor, but there's certainly nothing on that site that isolates it appropriately.

A good randomized experiment would be the way to find out, but that's hard to do in this case (again, pun intended).

 

[Spareribs]

Excellent points here. Whether porn is causing ED or not, I think it is good that more men are talking about it and sharing it with each other.

 

[billybob_jcv]

I think they should be blaming metrosexual hipsters, not porn.

In addition: There is more porn now than ever before, including tons of amateur porn. All the guys in those porn clips don't seem to have any issues with ED...

 

[ProtegeManiac]

I think they should be blaming metrosexual hipsters, not porn.

 
The study I think focused on people who are actually watching porn. Too much of it. In any case, I seriously doubt it's a widespread enough issue to be worried about, and even then, it'll actually do the planet some good if humans slowed down on reproduction. That or we get War, Famine, and Pestilence make for enough Death to cull the population.

 

[WraithApe]

Well according to research there is a difference between the old style Playboy magazines and today's high speed internet porn. 

 
Wave of the future dude. 100% electronic.

 

[perhapss]

Excellent points here. Whether porn is causing ED or not, I think it is good that more men are talking about it and sharing it with each other.

Is it really possible to share ED?

 
I guess it might be better that sharing ED with the wife though.
That`s no fun.....

 

[TsukiNick]

   
The study I think focused on people who are actually watching porn. Too much of it. In any case, I seriously doubt it's a widespread enough issue to be worried about, and even then, it'll actually do the planet some good if humans slowed down on reproduction. That or we get War, Famine, and Pestilence make for enough Death to cull the population.

"people who are actually watching porn"...so everyone?

 

[Spareribs]

Here's a talk about the effects of watching too much porn on your brain.
 
 

 

[LingLing1337]

This thread is making me friggin horny

 

[perhapss]

I`m going to guess here and say we are all men in this thread (

):
 
The important thing IMO regarding porn or women  is how y`al  deal with either one in relation to what you want.
 
So be mindful of the things that drive you "down there".
And also how you deal with the reconciliation of those things.
 
I`m not young and this has been my experience.
 
And incidentally, I`ve seen many decades of mags, women, girls, internet, 8mm,internet, wives etc.....
I`m not "neutered" in the least.
Don`t generalize.
 
On top of that (so to speak (

) ) my wife is nearly 20 years younger than me, is intelligent, accomplished, communicative, loves to "be intimate" and likes to watch porn herself.
So the attitude you as a young man OR older man will define you unless..........

 

[perhapss]

For some reason I feel my avatar makes me the Dr. Phil of this thread.