X-rated cable channels are offered on over 400 cable networks. There are more outlets selling and renting pornographic videos than there are McDonald s restaurants. Porn leads to a increased acceptance of premarital and extramarital sexuality, and increased distrust among sexually intimate partners, both married and single. Pornography makes people twice as likely to believe that children are a liability and a handicap, especially female children. Porn leads to diminished satisfaction with the physical appearance and sexual performance of intimate partners.
Porn leads to an enhanced sense of importance of sex without emotional involvement.
Porn creates an appetite for more unusual and bizarre materials such as those depicting sadomasochism and sexual violence. Initial repulsion and boredom toward porn is overridden by engaging in increasingly bizarre sex acts with a greater variety of sexual partners. Such behavior is soon perceived as normal. Porn leads to insensitivity towards victims of sexual violence. Exposure to porn soon leads to a belief that such materials do not harm even children.