I have alway wondered if being exposed to sexual graphic when a person is a child, does it make it harder to get sexually aroused as an adult. Meaning do you need more stimulation to get turned on?
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It's plausible, but ultimately nonsense. It's equally plausible to suggest that children raised without any awareness of sex might turn out to be pretty dull lovers, or not need or want it in life. Of course that's equally nonsense, for one simple reason, and one not so simple reason, and one outrageous reason which might still be true.
Firstly, nature has no interest in the modern education system, modern morality, the rather puritan US model, by comparison to the considerably more open and frank Scandinavian model, for example. As this site shows, the only effect of the puritan US model is that girls and boys are reaching 18 and are painfully ignorant about their bodies, their capabilities, responsibilities, and the fundamental need that nature has to generate babies if the human race is to survive. Hardly reassuring.
Nature provides hormones to wake children up as they enter puberty, and it's been a pretty good strategy so far.
Secondly, what is in the mind of the 'child', what is the 'graphic material': again, a bizarre contrast: you can watch death, dismemberment, murder, stabbing, blood, gore all with society's full permission, but see an erect penis before you're 18 and someone's going to jail. Yet one of those is a gross abuse of human rights - death is pretty final - and one of those is god's gift to allow the race to survive. Go figure.
It does raise the issue of how old such a 'child' is hypothetically, and what kind of material, and why the child has had the opportunity to view it. If an adult crept into a child's bedroom and showed pornographic material every night, then you could point the finger at the material, but personally I'd go with saying that any emotional disturbance would like with being 'invaded' by a supposedly safe (typically parental or near parental) figure.
Fortunately, we might hope that in reality, such a scenario is blessedly rare.
Ultimately, the mind is far more powerful and complex, robust and flexible than any 'rote' answer. True story, told in another post: two children, with a career criminal as a parent: they're twins, so biologically identical: one becomes an upstanding citizen, the other a thief. When asked why, they both said the same thing: with a father like that, what else could I be?
Regardless of your upbringing, you have the opportunity for a healthy, balanced life: whether you take that opportunity, is ultimately down to you.
Finally, and it goes beyond a health website, but is entirely pertinent to this kind of issue: we are more than mechanical beings, we are more than even mental beings: most people have some part of them that acknowledges there may be more to life than just the physical, or the mental: that we may have a soul. For those of us whose experience is such that we've long taken it for granted, then it should be pointed out that sexual harmony and arousal are as much an energetic experience, as mental or physical.
And if you want to decide which is more powerful, magazines or God, personally I'd go with God, but there you go.
And the simplest answer of all is: we get bored anytime we experience something repeatedly.
So yes, could it have an effect: of course: the trouble is the effect might be to turn them into a 'sex addict' (another nonsense term, usually applied to hollywood stars) as a bored and incapable adult.
Firstly, nature has no interest in the modern education system, modern morality, the rather puritan US model, by comparison to the considerably more open and frank Scandinavian model, for example. As this site shows, the only effect of the puritan US model is that girls and boys are reaching 18 and are painfully ignorant about their bodies, their capabilities, responsibilities, and the fundamental need that nature has to generate babies if the human race is to survive. Hardly reassuring.
Nature provides hormones to wake children up as they enter puberty, and it's been a pretty good strategy so far.
Secondly, what is in the mind of the 'child', what is the 'graphic material': again, a bizarre contrast: you can watch death, dismemberment, murder, stabbing, blood, gore all with society's full permission, but see an erect penis before you're 18 and someone's going to jail. Yet one of those is a gross abuse of human rights - death is pretty final - and one of those is god's gift to allow the race to survive. Go figure.
It does raise the issue of how old such a 'child' is hypothetically, and what kind of material, and why the child has had the opportunity to view it. If an adult crept into a child's bedroom and showed pornographic material every night, then you could point the finger at the material, but personally I'd go with saying that any emotional disturbance would like with being 'invaded' by a supposedly safe (typically parental or near parental) figure.
Fortunately, we might hope that in reality, such a scenario is blessedly rare.
Ultimately, the mind is far more powerful and complex, robust and flexible than any 'rote' answer. True story, told in another post: two children, with a career criminal as a parent: they're twins, so biologically identical: one becomes an upstanding citizen, the other a thief. When asked why, they both said the same thing: with a father like that, what else could I be?
Regardless of your upbringing, you have the opportunity for a healthy, balanced life: whether you take that opportunity, is ultimately down to you.
Finally, and it goes beyond a health website, but is entirely pertinent to this kind of issue: we are more than mechanical beings, we are more than even mental beings: most people have some part of them that acknowledges there may be more to life than just the physical, or the mental: that we may have a soul. For those of us whose experience is such that we've long taken it for granted, then it should be pointed out that sexual harmony and arousal are as much an energetic experience, as mental or physical.
And if you want to decide which is more powerful, magazines or God, personally I'd go with God, but there you go.
And the simplest answer of all is: we get bored anytime we experience something repeatedly.
So yes, could it have an effect: of course: the trouble is the effect might be to turn them into a 'sex addict' (another nonsense term, usually applied to hollywood stars) as a bored and incapable adult.
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What is the role of intercourse in human life? Why our sexual life is not the same, up to death?
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