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I think that a lot of the complaints brought up in the article aren't really complains about porn so much as they are complaints about how impressionable we are as individuals. We let so many of our tastes, preferences and behaviors be dictated by mass media, so why are we then surprised to find that we let our sexual behaviors be dictated by mass media as well?

On a related note, I think that a lot of the complaints can be attributed to a kind of pluralistic ignorance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralistic_ignorance), where individuals are under mistaken impressions about the preferences and comfort level of their partners. In a sense, this is the flip side of impressionability, where we expect that other people are similarly impressionable.



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