Ruined The Fantasy

al3x: “Most young men I know look at porn on the Internet. I have for years, particularly when single. I see it as a reality of being young and male (heck, probably just male, young or not): you're going to seek out visual stimulation one way or another; I'm not going to speak for women. But as porn has become an increasing part of the daily buzz in my news aggregator, the more disgusted I've been with the pornography I view. Having a better sense of the lives of the people, particularly the women, behind those movies and photographs has basically ruined the fantasy of pornography for me. I always had some sense of regret for endorsing, even if just via clickthroughs, the aforementioned ugliness of the porn industry. But hearing about the fall of some coke-addled porn starlet on a glib weblog has turned that ignorable regret into mouse-stopping disgust.”

al3x says that there is some porn, however, that he doesn't mind looking at. But then again...