For example [vaguely]: writer creates a character who behaves like X, despite nobody actually behaving like X in real life. Then characters behaving like X become a wide-ranging trope. People in the real world begin to think it’s normal to behave like X, and subsequently start actually behaving like X themselves.

Any actual examples of this phenomenon happening?

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[–] 23 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Maybe I'm just a prude, but from my perspective, anal sex was no were near as popular before internet porn. My friends never talked about that. It never occurred to me to try it. Until somewhere around the turn of the century, and now it's everywhere.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    What age were you when it struck you as something worth trying and you started to talk to your friends about it? It feels like you are attributing the change to the wrong thing tbh.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago* (6 children)

    because it feels great, and people like it. people weren't doing it because it was taboo before it was normalized by porn and sex educators.

    you know what wasn't also as popular before the internet and now is wildly popular? avocados.

    and lots of people now can't imagine life without avocados and anal sex.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  • Anilingus boomed after that Jhene Aiko song, lol. Western culture is overly sexual (expansive in superficiality, deep in hedonism, nothing new: Red light district in the Netherlands, Berlin is like the Mecca for hellish hedonism including a lot of poop play, etc etc.), by their standards the rest of the world is prudish and stuck-up. 🤷‍♂️

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