Thinking about this post today, and it reminded me of something that happened recently.
I was catching up with one of my high school friends recently. The subject of pornography came up and he talked about watching it like it's a perfectly normal thing for a 28-year-old adult man with a good job to do. I told him that if I had absolute power, I would use it to ban pornography and execute pornographers.
It was hard to convince him that I wasn't joking. When he realized I was dead serious he didn't know what to think. It was shocking to him that I found it repulsive, that I never watch it, that I advise no one partake in it, and that I think it's a cognitive poison that destroys normal, healthy human sexuality.
The point of this isn't to brag about what a staunchly conservative Internet Tough Guy I am, but that my friend and many others like him can't even imagine a life without their precious pr0n and constant cummies. The shock and confusion in his face was very telling. Porn is as much a part of modern male life as breathing, eating, drinking. "How do you NOT watch porn, dude?" is something I've heard many times from acquaintances but, thankfully, only a handful of my friends. I've managed to get a lot of them to stop the stuff and they thank me all the time for it. They thought it was no problem too, until I suggested they try and go without it... then they realized what a hold it had on them. Being anti-porn is one of the few right-wing views you can still have in polite society, so I push it as much as possible.