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by anonym29 289 days ago
I speak from what was nearly a universal set of experience of my peer group during my teenage years. Hell, I literally threw sleepover parties where my friend group would stay up all night to watch censored Girls Gone Wild infomercials, and this was in a relatively strict Christian household where my friends' M-rated Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 games would be confiscated by my parents at the door and returned to them when they left.

I was literally looking up Zero Suit Samus fan art on my Wii's web browser when parents put parental control software on the computer.

When I was grounded from all computer usage, I'd pull up Catie Minx photoshoots on a first-generation Kindle, with the e-ink display that had image update latency measured in seconds.

All of my friends would go to these extents and more to access this kind of material. I was introduced to dumpster diving by a friend for this reason. I had another friend who got caught for shoplifting adult magazines from a bookstore.

I don't think the motivation and ingenuity in seeking adult content is generationally restricted or particularly unique at all, it seems to be true for every guy I know, including those who were born in the 50s, 60s, 70's, 80s, 90s.

I genuinely cannot comprehend the thought process of people who truly believe that a few targeted lawsuits at major porn sites is going to make a dent in what might be one of the strongest behavioral drives hardcoded into the human genome.

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This thread is very funny and a lot of fun.

I'll also add that regardless of any access to web or printed materials, boys will get interested in boobs and seeing more of them by seeing them in the real world, on real women.

There is like no stronger instinct in human DNA than for males to be attracted to females. If it weren't that way our species probably wouldn't have survived down the millenia.