My biggest concern is that it shows many things as normal and healthy that aren't. Warning - intimate details lie ahead.
As an example - in recent years, this has become increasingly common: women fellating until they gag, almost vomit, drool mucousy streams of saliva all over their partner's genitals, and then slurp it all back up. Most of them look truly miserable while they're doing it.
The guys look like they think it's awesome - never mind the discomfort they allow to be caused to their partner, regardless of how good it might feel.
I can't rule out that it's possible there are women who do enjoy almost tossing their cookies during sex acts. But I am pretty comfortable in believing that most don't. You and I know that. Most people not raised on this variety of porn know that.
Yet now we'll have a generation of kids being shown that women should do this, and they'll be seeing this before they even reach puberty. We're not talking fringe stuff that someone will find, make a decision about, and either look for more of it or not. This is in 'mainstream' porn. Showing young kids that it's normal and expected. And because most people don't do much talking about sex with their offspring, there won't be anybody who tells them differently.
Besides, from ghastly^H^H^H^H^H^H^H sultry smiles on the faces of the women after the fact, it's clear that they really must have enjoyed it.
Whether or not we should worry about it hinges on a lot of uncertainties, including:
- Whether some women really do enjoy it. Granted, it's unlikely that most do. Given that some people really do enjoy extreme BDSM, it's not beyond the realms of possibility that some - even many - women enjoy deepthroating. People can consent to whatever sexual activity they want.
- Whether children do really form an image of what people 'should' do from porn. Staged sex acts are fantasy fulfilment. Most people are capable, even as young teenagers, of keeping fantasy and reality separate. Just as most teenagers don't act out fantasy situations they find in other media, they don't expect to act out porn fantasies. Everyone has intrusive thoughts, and the vast majority don't act on them. It's arguable that those who do would do so without the media stimulation.
On the first point, sure - I conceded in writing that there is likely to be a subset of women who do enjoy it. But I think we can agree that the physical discomfort of it will be a turnoff to most.
As to your second point - yes, certainly teenagers can distinguish fantasy from reality. But the major difference here is that it's not portrayed as fantasy. In a movie, everybody knows that the actors get up and walk away at the end of the day - nobody is really getting shot.
On the contrary when it comes to porn, there's no doubt that the acts are really being performed, and by real people. So while a young person's ability to distinguish fantasy from reality shouldn't be underestimated in the context of movies, video games, etc -- we have something of a different beast here.
You're right that it is an uncertainty, but certainly a logical case could be constructed for at minimum further study of this idea. Unfortunately, we as a society won't do that, because we have to pretend that our teenage children aren't sexual creatures.
What's left, then, is to make best guesses based on logic.
It's a poor substitute for science but in this area it's as close as we're going to get.
Tastes (yes, including sexual) are in part culturally-shaped as well as from experience.
For example, I'd bet that a far greater percentage of people of either sex enjoy giving oral 10 years after they started having sex than the first year they had sex. (That is, unless they got married. Ba-dum-pssshh. :) )
So women observe some of this porn, they get it into their heads that it "looks hot", and that makes it hot. Theoretically.
Frankly I'm a little jealous of folks dating 20something women these days.
As an example - in recent years, this has become increasingly common: women fellating until they gag, almost vomit, drool mucousy streams of saliva all over their partner's genitals, and then slurp it all back up. Most of them look truly miserable while they're doing it.
The guys look like they think it's awesome - never mind the discomfort they allow to be caused to their partner, regardless of how good it might feel.
I can't rule out that it's possible there are women who do enjoy almost tossing their cookies during sex acts. But I am pretty comfortable in believing that most don't. You and I know that. Most people not raised on this variety of porn know that.
Yet now we'll have a generation of kids being shown that women should do this, and they'll be seeing this before they even reach puberty. We're not talking fringe stuff that someone will find, make a decision about, and either look for more of it or not. This is in 'mainstream' porn. Showing young kids that it's normal and expected. And because most people don't do much talking about sex with their offspring, there won't be anybody who tells them differently.
Besides, from ghastly^H^H^H^H^H^H^H sultry smiles on the faces of the women after the fact, it's clear that they really must have enjoyed it.