LostintheCycle
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The Background
The Internet is well known as a gateway to porn, we have all probably heard that fact about how one third of the Internet is porn or some crazy number like that. We all also know that a defining aspect of Generation Z is that most of us grew up alongside rapid technology growth and rapid attitude change to technology. In this frame I like to think there are three parts of Generation Z: the older zoomer who had their formative years in the world before real widespread social media use; the middle zoomer (which I fall into) who are the young natives of social media and adopted it as their primary communication; and the young zoomer that grew up in the Internet world. Any younger is getting into what I call iPad kids, which is gonna be a whole other ballpark, but basically I think of zoomers as the ones that adopted the Internet as their primary platform for communication, fun, work... so basically everything. Generation Z always had Internet access, and it's obvious to anyone then that kids who wander across the Internet wantonly, as they do, will stumble on porn by accident or by seeing what happens if they type "big naked boobs" into Google.As time has gone on, parents seem less able to enforce parental control over their child's digital lives --- and how can they? Kids are bound to find backdoors eventually. I'm 18, I recall our collective experiences in primary school of wrangling with our parents for permission to make a social media account. Now It's totally normal to see 9 year olds with public accounts on a place like TikTok, which the parents may or may not know about but that still means that the once watchful eye has relaxed because of how they view the Internet has fundamentally changed in that short time. For everyone, the Internet sort of melded into their lives from the access of their pocket.
I think a lot of us who used the Internet as kids could attest some experience of stumbling on something explicit at a young age, and were affected in different degrees, but when I was at school it seemed there were certain times of exposures. At 11, some of us boys daringly sought out porn online, some ending up as regular users (child addicts). Only one year goes by and we're in high school, and now we're big boys and we have to turn it up ten fucking notches, and now it's literally inescapable. If you weren't exposed before, you were going to be within a few months of starting high school. 12 year olds watch porn at the back of class. 13 year olds looking at hentai pictures in the library. The depraved hum is constant and it has been feeding back into itself for years. When I was 16, everyone seemed to be seriously on pornography, and it seemed like it was starting to not just be a guy thing. On the Internet, you'd easily find girls claiming they like hentai, and I even saw it in person now and then. It'd be hard to find any Western 16 year old now who hasn't seen some hentai at least once, because this is the atmosphere of our world, which encompassed both the real life and the digital life.
The Atmosphere
The feedback loop of depravity and more people getting exposed to it has led to an environment where depraved sex seems to permeate our worldview. And I mean depraved sex, not regular sex, which was always something teens were obsessed with; now it is different. Think of the Gen Z gamer culture, which is massive now that a majority of Gen Z --- especially the younger half --- are gamers, and now also that more girls play video games than ever. Think of Gen Z on TikTok, where girls sexualize themselves beyond the wildest dreams of Instagram. Tons of zoomers inhabit one or both of these spheres, which both has that chronically-online sexuality imbued into it in ways that are disturbingly casual.It's a disgusting, hazy atmosphere; it dampens your senses and your psyche, and if you stay, it will affect the way you view sex. Sex is a big part of a relationship: if it's good then it keeps both partners in good faith to one another and with great fondness to each other, but if it's bad then it can lead to barren relationships, it can destroy marriages. Sex is rarely an expression of love in this atmosphere, but merely something you do for your own pleasure. I know that's hardly Gen Z, exclusive but it's still an important part of it. Guys want girls to pull faces to simulate cartoons; people want to stick their tongue into a shit hole; guys watch forceful disgusting blowjob videos where the girl is choking on her stringy saliva, and then expects that in real life; and the gross pseudo-incest of fake step-family porn . . . this is the sex that is presented to Gen Z, and they believe in it because that is what they see on their devices that they are stuck on all the time. Of course people don't think of this consciously, but it is nonetheless etched into zoomer culture. These changes will have historic effects.
The Future
There is definitely an online diaspora of young men who want to move beyond porn, and their numbers are increasing. The difficult thing is that this motivation is not always in good faith; good health is unironically a tenet of "Internet Nazism". There are those who are anti-porn because they believe Jews invented it to destroy Western culture. On the flip side, there is the idea that pornography is anti-feminist because of how it objectifies women. This sensible idea gets overshadowed by the other feminists who claim it's somehow empowering or whatever because... they can at least make money from it? (On a side note, have you ever thought about just how many people there are who make pornography? The quantity of porn out there makes it seem like millions of people. Where the hell are they all?) But I get the feeling that this cannot last long term without massive consequences. Perhaps it will, and we will suffer those consequences, but I think it is a question of when it'll stop, rather than if. Perhaps it will remain this way for the doomed Generation Z and the subversive fringes will amount to nothing significant, but the generation that they will beget may be the ones who will despise their parents for their gross sexual acts, for degrading themselves for pleasure or money... they may be the ones who will make leeway on ripping away the new view of sex, though they will naturally come across the problem of what would replace it, and if they were being subversive, they'd probably just hate all sexuality. It would surely be very contentious. But I can easily imagine the generation we create will look down on us zoomers for being perverts, just as we look down on boomers.Maybe that prediction is stupid but I stand absolutely by this statement: the hypersexual world will not last, but its death won't be from a grand moral triumph. It might be thrown out when the coming catastrophes like recession, depression, starvation, inflation, all come along and we suddenly have bigger things to worry about than boning submissive twink anuses. Hell we could pass it down for another hundred years or something, but frankly that's all I'd give it honestly. It sucks that the hypersexual world is a thing, but it's a unique historic event. It's surreal and sad and disgusting, but you can't say it isn't interesting, in some way.
Ultimately, my solace for the future is basic: the only constant is change, so the world probably won't stay like this, even if I don't get to see it otherwise.
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