Like virtually every American male who has lived in the 21st century, I’ve viewed my share of pornography. My first encounter with it was when my friend and I discovered his older brother’s Playboy collection when we were 7 years old. I’ll always treasure those memories of Vanna White.
As a professor who teaches argumentation, the topic of porn occasionally comes up in my classes, and I am surprised at how eager my undergraduates are to discuss it. When I was in college in the late 1990s, porn was still stigmatized, and very few people who regularly consumed it were willing to admit that in front of a mixed audience of their peers. Many students today—both men and women—seem to view it as a humorous, innocuous fixture in their daily lives.
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