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Answering strictly with regard to pornography and not other things such as attitudes towards women's right to vote, etc:Were men really any better *before* wide spread porn?
It depends on how you look at it. For example, men born in the 1940s would at most have been exposed to photos of pin-up models or erotic novels growing up. While it's not something children should be exposed to, a photo of a pin-up model or an erotic novel is not going to wire a child's brain in the same way that gang bang videos in 4K are wiring the brains of children born in the 2010s as we speak. The first sexual experience of a 1940s man would likely precisely have been sex with a woman. A boy born in 2010 may have seen hundreds, if not thousands of pornographic videos of women having the most horrific things done to them before he even gets the chance to touch a woman. So yes, in that sense a 1940s man would be better than a 2010s man.
That being said, if men who were born in the 1940s had had access to widespread internet pornography growing up, would they have been able to handle it any better than children born in the 2010s? No. There's a remote Amazonian tribe called the Marubo that only got internet access through Starlink a few years ago, and even they are now having issues with young scrotes and minors fighting pornography addiction. And ultimately, the porn industry didn't appear out of thin air in the late 60s and 70s – those who founded it were men born in the 1940s or earlier. So those bad sexual inclinations already existed within men, in some more than others (Marquis de Sade being a notable example and he did not have access to internet pornography in 4K).
What pornography has done is that it has amplified already existing problems and made them much worse. For example, while men with autogynephilia have been around for a long time, some of the men who are autogynephilic trannies in 2026 would've been less likely to become autogynephilic trannies if they'd been born in 1906 and hadn't had access to unlimited pornography they could wire their brains with.
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