Men's magazines: it's a zoo out there

It's interesting that under a headline that begins "Men's magazines ..." the first sentence would be "What is pornography?" It's a bit discouraging but it supports my belief that we like to define men simplisticly, uni-dimensionally. So if I ever look for a magazine geared toward men the choices are inevitably pornographic, though of varying degrees.

I also found this sentence interesting:

And psychologists have found that while habitual users of porn are not more likely to rape, they do become deadened to sexual imagery.

This also supports what I've suspected for a while: we've managed to fill our lives with sexual imagery, put almost everything in a sexual context, and in so doing have managed what I would have thought almost impossible - we've made sex boring.

I'm sure some will disagree, but I believe the less explicit sex is, the more attractive it is. The more explicit, the more banal. And pornography is nothing if not banal.