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In reply to the discussion: PORN [View all]OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)Reminds me of the olden days on DU where we actually had discussions of this sort of thing.
I guess my first reaction is that you are over 10 years younger than me but you found National Geographic "interesting.
Human sexuality is indeed a strange and powerful urge. I am constantly amazed at the prominent and powerful people who ruin their lives by getting "caught" expressing their sexuality.
I guess I was fortunate. I knew I liked the fairer sex when I was in second grade and was reprimanded by my teacher for looking up girls dresses. Nature? Nurture? Who gives a rats ass, I liked girls. My mother I guess, was an enlightened soul and by fourteen, I had Playboy Centerfolds as my wall paper (on my walls, we didn't have computers yet!) I always found it amusing, and kind of sad when I would go to a friends home and he would pull a Nat Geo mag out from under his mattress to show "secret" pictures of Nekkid females.
Lucky me, I came of age during the "sexual revolution" and in addition to marrying a model who explained to me way back when that the pictures I saw were, well, I don't know what the existing version of photo shop was back then but the point was that those women didn't actually exist except in a very few cases. I also had the pleasure of living in a town on the coast of California called Bolinas which was famous for, among other things, the fact that Jefferson Airplane lived there and they had a great nude beach that I spent most weekends on.
In my 61 years on this earth, with much opportunity, I have seen exactly two women who looked like the stuff we see in Macy's ads. Two! Women simply don't look like that.
Do I still like looking at nekkid women? Hell yes! Do I enjoy looking at photo shopped Barbie dolls? Not really.
I guess I'm Lucky. I like real women.