So... y'know that study claiming that porn actresses have high self esteem?

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17. It really is some shockingly sick stuff.

Chris Hedges likens the type of porn we see today as a form of necrophilia. When I first heard him make that statement during a CSpan Book TV interview from about a year ago, I was like, what?... But when I took a look at one of the free, easily accessed porn sites recently, his description kept entering my consciousness and really began to make sense. It's as if the women are just 'there' having their bodies sadistically and violently used, as a sort of non-person entity for the man's pleasure. A kind of receptacle even.

Not sure if I've articulated this well enough, but do you all get what I mean?

Ugh!... And when I think of the fact that much of this stuff is being viewed by impressionable young men, I can't help but wonder what the long term impact will be on them, (if any)?...How will they view sex (and women in general), for the rest of their lives? Will this stuff affect, or even permanently alter how they view future relationships? Or will they be able to compartmentalize those images into the non-reality based exploitation and objectification of women that they truly are?

I have no idea how long this sick trend in the porn industry has been going on, but I don't remember it being anything nearly as disturbing, even just a decade ago; which is why I wonder if this will have, or is already beginning to have some long term societal implications.

Sorry if I appear to be rambling. It's just so hard to wrap my brain around what I've recently seen. Am I being too alarmist?