Mike DomitrzPresident, Author, and Speaker on Respect, The Center for Respect, Inc. · Author & Speaker on Respect for Schools, Corporations, & the Military since 1990 (has reached

Difference with porn 30 years ago and now.

1 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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In this short spoken segment, the presenter argues that pornography is fundamentally performative and contrasts the limited, still‑image access of the early 1990s—primarily through three mainstream magazines (Playboy, Access, and Star)—with today’s ubiquitous, full‑video and audio porn. He suggests that earlier generations only had a vague idea of sexual content, whereas modern viewers experience complete sensory detail, shaping a different perception of sexuality and fueling generational criticism of “perversion.”

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It's not real. Yeah, it's fantasy. It's literally performative. It's performance, right? So why is that a concern? Is it new? No, watch this. How many of you can— back in my day, some of you are much younger than me, but back in my day, if you wanted to see a naked woman sexually, you had to hope somebody's— typically dad, typically, not always— had one of 3 magazines. What were the 3 magazines? Seriously, yell them out. Playboy, Access, and Star. It took you 5 seconds. So whenever parents are like, this generation is so perverted, you just named all 3 magazines from 30 years ago in 5 seconds. The difference is they actually have access we didn't have, right? Because it was a still image. So you had an idea, but you didn't know. They've got full video, sound of every version, so they think, well, that's got to be how it is. 'Cause I'm hearing it, I'm seeing it. So that's the massive difference with porn.