Perhaps those two observations help to explain why we take our porn so very seriously, why we could probably talk for hours about specific scenes that opened our eyes to new activities we'd previously never dreamed of and why we are so madly in love with certain familiar faces (and other parts) who seemed to teach us how to do 'it' and gave us permission to stop worrying our parents would find out so we could simply enjoy being pigs-at least on occasion. Holding our heads up high, yet can wax nostalgic about unbelievably satisfying sexual encounters, revering them as if they were religious experiences.įor gay men, with no societal instruction on what happens when two guys fall in love or even just lust, pornography was for decades the primary means by which we could find those answers. We can sometimes treat our partners like crap while still But if that's true, then men definitely mythologize it too much for our own good. Generally speaking, it's thought that women probably emotionalize sex a bit too much for their own good. ATTENTION: This list has a 2019 update with radically different rankings - HERE!
