• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    This is very much a real effect.

    I play some video games on my downtime, I hop into discord groups of male gamers and it’s like jumping into Penthouse Letters - Oops! All Men Edition.

    The weird way a lot of straight men “joke” about erotic ideas with each other seems to spiral out of control as they hang out with each other, and rapidly leaves the realm of “ironic dirty talk” and becomes full on eroticism and while I’m no prude and don’t feel offense, I sometimes wonder if these guys should just get in a private channel and get it out of their system.

    Because we’re all being trained to be afraid of each other, we have rising phenomenon that indicate a deep human desire for connection that’s being lost. Why is incest porn so popular right now? Not because people commit incest at any higher rate than at any other point in modern history, it’s because a growing swath of the population, mostly men, are so distanced from the idea of intimacy with a female partner that they can only imagine it with someone they have a pre-existing, non-threatening relationship with. Erotica with imagined siblings, anthropomorphic “pets” and of course sexualizing underage or “innocent” characters other ideas of non-relationship sex with “safe” partners are flooding media and it’s absolutely a sign of our current male population not having ANY idea how to grow up and have adult relationships and it’s more sad than anything, and it’s only going to get worse and worse.