On item the second, I think it's a mistake to assume that all men are inducted into the halls of visual pornography in their teen years in the way that she believes they are. Again, some are and some aren't. The image of the teen sneaking into dad's bedroom to read his porn stash is so thoroughly ingrained in popular culture that we forget a lot more men aren't reading Playboy than are. That said, and the question of porn images aside, I would definitely agree that girls and boys are socially conditioned to respond to sexuality quite differently.
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Date: 2013-06-24 10:57 pm (UTC)