Tuesday, July 5, 2011

The Porn Conundrum

One day, long ago, man's sole responsibilities were finding food and sex by any means necessary. He hunted and usually found a mate who would gather other food as well as bear children. She didn't have to be perfect, just good enough.

In the last 100 years, as the Western world has become industrialized things have changed. People started to marry for love more than family pressure or business sense (though we still do this all the time). Men and women connected, accepted each other's flaws and lived satisfactory lives.

In the last 10 years streaming video has changed everything. Enter the Entitled Generation and the porn conundrum. Today, our food needs are cheaply and easily (not nutritionally) satisfied through fast food. Our generation is proud to say we don't cook and we plan on staying single for a long time. As one handsome British gentleman I spoke to the other day put it, in light of a conversation about his bride-to-be, "People around here wait forever to get married as though they're waiting for something to happen, like 'Oh, I'm 36 and I've only fucked 150 girls, maybe I'll find the right one soon.'"

He had a point. There is a difference in the type of person who seeks relationships and marriage. Our generation feels entitled to cheap thrills. The good life. Fun brands! Coachella! If we don't like a girl, we have a catalog of 10,000 gorgeous women ready to look into out eyes and please us at 500 KB/sec. No wonder we go from woman to woman. The average relationship with a porn clip lasts about 45 seconds.

None of this is bad per se, I just wonder how it affects social structure in the next couple decades. Do we grow out of this or do younger generations begin to accept this as the way to organize? Do women start to accept that men also like to beat their drums, or as I once heard it described, accept that sex and masturbating are like eating and drinking? They're similar activities but both are required to survive.

As is often the case with WisslinDixie, I don't know how this one ends. If you'll excuse me, it's time I get back to my YouPorn.

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