When Dr Samuel Shpall, a University of Sydney senior lecturer, teaches his course, Philosophy of Sex, he isn’t surprised to hear young men like Tom critique their own experience of porn. Your appreciation is through this lens.” The first generation raised on porn “Instead of looking at what’s in front of you, these concepts go over it like some augmented reality that’s cut up and categorised into these pornographic concepts. It was always like a very sort of pornified view of sex, that was homogenous. “It presented a view of sex as almost a checkbox always women who looked similar, the camera focusing on similar parts of their bodies, similar sex acts being performed. Looking back, Tom thinks how he consumed porn as a teenager created a kind of filter. Even now if I go through a phase of watching porn, closing my eyes during sex is much worse. Like the real thing almost didn’t turn me on enough – the stimulation just wasn’t quite right. ![]() “Functionally, I almost couldn’t have sex with her. When Tom started having sex years later, he found it difficult to connect to his real-life partner. ![]() Tom became a “habitual” user of those sites a few years later at 13 – one of millions around the world tapping into the same ad-driven pipeline of free porn.
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