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[–]MarkTwainiac 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The conversation is usually about how porn ruins boys but we rarely talk about the affects on girls.

Speak for yourself. This POV strikes me as indicative of the perhaps narrow circles you are having convos in, not what "the conversation" is about amongst a broad swathe of society. Many people - from radical feminists to psychologists, concerned parents, teachers, sex educators, abused young women just waking up to what they're being indoctrinated into, conservatives, religious leaders, and grown men and women of a variety of political viewpoints, including some otherwise lib sex poz feminists - have indeed pointed out and expressed grave concern about the effects of porn on girls nowadays.

[–]inneedofspace[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I rarely hear about how it effects women, when I was dealing with a porn addiction which I know some people don't believe is real there were only 2 or 3 women talking about it and it's effects, I usually only here about how it makes men more violent or uncaring but rarely ever how porn itself affects women outside of "does my boyfriend still love me" post. Not trying to start an argument that's just been my experience especially compared to the conversation about men and their porn watching habits, pyschology today seems to have it covered google comes up with snippets but when you search for "porn effects on women" 4-11 year old articles pop up and a scientific study from 1999. Sites like feminist current seems to believe on men watch porn and women do porn and right now reddit is in a fury about blatant misogynist porn but not the fact that women are personally posting and participating there.

I'll edit my post though because that's not really my point and it's not the only thing I want people to see.