{"id":1508,"date":"2009-07-10T16:46:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T21:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2009-07-10T16:46:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T21:46:31","slug":"the-porn-saturated-kids-are-allright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2009\/07\/10\/the-porn-saturated-kids-are-allright\/","title":{"rendered":"The Porn Saturated Kids are Allright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metroactive.com\/metro\/05.27.09\/cover-0921.html\"> <\/p>\n<p>Jessica Lussenhop says<\/a> our kids are awash in pornography, but for the most part they can handle it, or at least exhibit a nonchalance about it.  Shudder inducing quote (for me at least):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have 140 gigs of porn on my computer,&#8221; one of his buddies says. &#8220;I was going to put it all on an external hard drive and pass it to all my friends. And I said this in front of my friend&#8217;s parents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is interesting for a couple of reasons. First, his frankness is astounding. Second, this very nice boy with the 140 gigs of pornography gives his first and last name to include in this article. I&#8217;m not going to print it here. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve thought some about this ubiquitous pornography question because we had Naomi Wolf come to our campus a few months back and give a thought provoking talk about how the deluge of porn had the effect of demystifying (rationalizing &#8211; although she didn&#8217;t use that work) the female body.  Channeling Max Weber, She called for bringing courtship and magic back into relationships.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metroactive.com\/metro\/05.27.09\/gifs\/COVER_TeenGate.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nMy own view is similar to Weber&#8217;s in lamenting that &#8220;the romantic mystery ship has failed.&#8221;  The broarder implications for me as a parent and as a political scientist is the hyper-rationalizing of our youth.  Our students, in my view, are evolving into &#8220;hyper-processors&#8221; who are able to synthesize vast amounts of information.  I think, in general, this makes them more goal oriented and focused.  The flip side is that they are less reflective.  I think my big fear is that our young people are losing an ability to be intentional in their behaviors&#8230;.i.e. they are too preoccupied by their increasingly complex habitus that they find it increasingly difficult to exhibit the agency necessary to alter their habitus.  Not to get all sci-fi, but it would seem like the technology pushes structural change in ways that are not rational or driven by conscious thought.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Lussenhop says our kids are awash in pornography, but for the most part they can handle it, or at least exhibit a nonchalance about it. Shudder inducing quote (for me at least): &#8220;I have 140 gigs of porn on my computer,&#8221; one of his buddies says. &#8220;I was going to put it all on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1312,1047,12],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-habitus","tag-pornography","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}