A friend of mine pointed me towards this collection of dating advice from the 1930′s. Remember ladies – never pass out drunk on a date!

I love the TED lectures – they’re always thought provoking and insightful. This morning, someone sent me this talk from Cindy Gallop, who argues that today’s young men have been exposed to more porn, and earlier, than any other generation.

Like a lot of young men of the internet generation, I was exposed to hard-core pornography well before my first exposure to alcohol or pot, and well before my first real experience with girls. Since I was sixteen, downloading porn has been a lot easier (and cheaper) than buying a gallon of milk. But disproving the fears of many feminists and christian fundamentalists, it hasn’t made me or my generation more disrespectful of women, or violent than generations that have come before us, but to suggest that it hasn’t affected my generation is probably disingenuous.

Personally, I learned pretty early in my teens that porn isn’t a very useful guide for how to actually have sex. There are a lot of sexual positions that look pretty good on TV that are significantly less enjoyable in real life. In the absence of real sex education in schools – it seems like porn is the first place that most men learn about sex.

So, I ask the question – do you think that porn has affected your attitudes towards sex, or your “technique”? Have you learned anything useful, or do you think it may have given you bad habits?

And finally, I thought I would list the top 5 signs you may have some bad influences from porn.

1 – You feel compelled to end off every sexual interaction with a “money shot”

2 – You feel compelled to change positions every 3 minutes for 20 minutes.

3 – You hum bad funk music to yourself.

4 – You think women lust after cable guys.

5 – Your “technique” consists of jackhammering away while keeping suitable lines of sight open at all times.