"I saw the 'gangbang' scene for
the first time at the age of 12," says Nancy Taylor, 24. From the age of
eleven to sixteen, Nancy would watch porn almost every day. She would go
upstairs to her childhood room - with KTT Tanstal posters and photos of her
friends on the walls, books, and notes scattered on the floor - closed the
door, and spend "between ten minutes and an hour" searching
pornographic sites.
"I don't think mine ever found
out," she says and admits that today she even plays JerkDolls porn games.
She quickly overcame the initial shock. "I think pornography reduces your
sensitivity. I certainly got to the point where little things could shock me.
You see something even more violent, so it becomes normal for you what you saw
before."
She is not alone in this. A survey
conducted in 2016 concludes that about 53 percent of people aged 18 to 21 have
seen some explicit content on the Internet. For Nancy, it all started because
she became interested in sex.
"I saw sex on film and wanted to
know more about it. Maybe I had a high libido, or I was shaken by puberty, I
don't know, but I started looking for ordinary feature films that have a lot of
sex." She soon, however, moved on to more explicit content. "I heard
about pornography at school from my peers, but since I went to school
exclusively for girls, it was always seen as 'something boys look at.' My
curiosity awoke, but I was also very ashamed of it as if I was doing something
unnatural, which normal girls would never do."
As Nancy became better acquainted
with the types of video clips on offer, she also began to develop inclinations
towards a certain topic.
"I was looking for porn in which
a woman is submissive, maybe tied, maybe she even looks like she was forced to
have sex. Or I would search for mature perverts with horny teens. While I was
so young, at the age of 19, I can't say that I developed my sexual preferences
on my own - I think I was terribly affected by what I watched."
Sarah, 25, reports a similar
experience on Stocking Porn.
"I started watching pornography
when I was 19 or 21 at least twice a week, if not more often. I felt like I
simply satisfied a need." She points out that she quickly moved the
threshold of sensitivity "Ten men with one woman, orgies that are
practically a creeping body mass, women slapped or otherwise hardly
humiliated."
Sarah says that now she plays BDSM
porn games and still watches porn,
but less often than before.
"After ten years and regular
consumption, today, it is harder for me to reach orgasm without any additional
stimulation, like a vibrator or pornography, which form me is like an online
sex simulator."
Much has been written on men's
subject and the excessive consumption of pornography, both by media and
scientists. In 2016, Angela Gregory, who specializes in psychosexual therapy at
the British National Health Service, told the media that easily accessible
pornography has led to an increase in the number of men referred for erectile
dysfunction.
An educational charity analysis
suggested that consuming pornography caused about two to five percent of
impotence cases in the early 2000s, while today it is behind 30 percent of
cases. And it's not just a matter of physical function - researchers in the
United States claim that men who were exposed to pornography in their youth
more often agree with statements that confirm male dominance.