DISCUSSION

If you ask the average person on the street how porn can change you, they will tell you the same old story that we always here: “porn gives you unrealistic expectations of sex” and that “porn corrupts”.

Generally the future of porn promises to be pretty exciting. We’ve gone from kinky phone sex 40 or so years ago to all the magnificent pornographic wonders of today – and that’s just great. But there are still some people out there trying to ruin everybody’s good time.

For many men, talk of women paying for sex is like sweet, succulent poetry to their ears. It heralds a new age where the ever-present desire for sex is no longer exclusive to the male gender, and perhaps English nightclubs will cease to be the sausage-fest spheres of reciprocated frustration and sadness that they have become.

I know what you’re thinking – “too much” sex can’t be bad for you because it feels oh so good, and you can never have too much of a good thing. In fact, all of our research shows that sex is actually good for you, and it can save your relationship if you have enough.

When porn comes up in conversation, it doesn’t tend to be in favour of it. Sure, there are some who see it as a bit of harmless entertainment, but many think it is disgusting and should be confined to the darkest corners of the internet.

Any attraction to transexuals is often accompanied for one single question: does my attraction make me gay? Sadly the answer is rarely clear cut. If you’re walking down the street and you see an attractive man, and feel a surge of blood rush southwards to your penis, then we can certainly say you’re probably harbouring some homosexual tendencies. However, no one would blame you for having the same reaction when you see one of the many well-endowed transexuals out there. Hell, even if you know that the person is a transexual, basic male sex-drive would still consider anything with longlegs sexually. After all, we’re conditioned to think of sex every six seconds.

Currently, all eyes are on the sex industry as the days count down until the law making it illegal to pay for sex in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland isn’t the first place to criminalise the client, as both Sweden and Norway have taken this action.

Relationships tend not to last very long anymore, and if they do they usually feature two people unhappily attached to each other with very little they can do about it, and so they just stay together.

For some the idea of cybersex and virtual reality porn represents the advent of a beautiful new age – where technology meets liberalism, and together they have a wondrous child called endless pleasure. We’d all like to envisage a future where our sexual appetites can be sated by the turn of a switch, and company, whether sexual or not, is never more than an arm’s reach away.

The way people talk about the subject, you would think those who pay for sex are the most despicable and evil people in the world. But is that really the case?