We see a satirical take on this absurdity in this video:
Franchises with no substance such as Fifty Shades of Grey have also popped up, glorifying BDSM and feeding off of people's lust like gladiatorial combat of old which brought out people's other inner demons of violence and blood lust. And as if the tradition of showcasing women based on their bodies in so-called beauty pageants wasn't bad enough, women are made to feel more self-conscious than ever with new fads like "bikini bodies" with swimsuits being designed skimpier and skimpier, while men sport T-shirts and shorts on beaches.
This state of affairs is bad but it's rapidly getting worse with more far-reaching effects. Restrictions and prohibition on porn is lax, same as how it is when it comes to prostitution and brothels, and the anti-porn movement is just starting out (check out "Porn Harms" page on Facebook). The more the porn industry and its related businesses grow, the more it becomes harder to stop; the situation we now see with the meat industry which has become one of the wealthiest and most powerful industries on the planet with vast financial resources and political power, so much so that it can influence and dictate laws.
Children and teens start watching porn and having sex because of peer pressure and it changes them forever, with very bad consequences on all aspects of their lives. Superficial and failed relationships, teen pregnancies, abortions, unwanted children, overpopulation, rape and more problems are rampant. Sometimes, young children display perverted behavior as a result of exposure to pornified media and sex. An example of this is a post on the MedHelp community by a mother who has witnessed sexual behavior between her 7-year-old daughter and 8-year-old nephew, excerpts of which are below:
...after discussion I had learned that my nephew had been touched by his older brother and a friend before he came to live with us. He had also mentioned that he has watched movies with sexual scenes in it before he moved with us as well.
There may have been a time where she [daughter] has seen something on the television...for example, she would be sleeping in her room while my husband and I would be watching a movie where there happens to be a sex scene and she just so happened to walk into the living room to ask for something and seen the TV...
...the one time I had caught her [daughter] humping a pillow and I had asked her where she learned that from and she said me and my husband. Please understand that she has a tendency to walk into my room half asleep to crawl into bed with us. She had probably tried to do this but we were obviously in the middle of something [sex].
Talking to people about their perceptions of both porn and sex when they were first introduced to these, I have come to see a pattern—they initially viewed them with disgust before becoming desensitized, one even reporting how he vomited upon seeing porn for the first time. These practices eventually become a part of their lives because both porn and sex are addictive, and they struggle in later years, unable to control it. There is even therapy for bad cases. On NoFap on Reddit, we can see how hard young people are trying to quit watching porn the same way smokers try to quit smoking. In this The Guardian article titled Life without sex – it's better than you think, the author writes, "arguably, sex is an addiction. Break the cycle and, over time, the physical and psychological "need" for sex lessens – you can do without it, hard as that may be to believe."
There are many people who want to speak up against porn and are disinterested in or disgusted by sex but they have no voice in this society, and mainstream media does not often bring out these stories because they would much rather jump on the pornification bandwagon to please the majority of the audience and gain popularity. Also, people are afraid to express views which are contrary to the social norms or what is regarded as "cool" by their peers—not to mention, society suppresses them by deeming such views to be abnormal; for example, a negative view of sex is regarded like a disease that needs to be treated. Go through this The Guardian article, "Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex" and what asexual people have to say: "15 Confessions Reveal What It's Like To Date While Asexual".
As for me, being a young person myself, I have for some reason, never been indoctrinated into things regarding sex. I retain my initial reaction to it upon discovering it as a child—disgust and incredulity that good, decent people actually behave like this.
I foresee that in the future, with society sinking into more and more corruption, people getting messed up with even more pornification of the world around them, we would have a massive crisis which would then result in the anti-porn and celibacy movement truly flourishing.
