>I don’t think that it was common to do so pre-puberty, pre-internet.
Pre-puberty, probably not, no interest for obvious reasons. Pre-internet, absolutely. Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, etc were prevalent. BBS's existed too.
Pre-puberty, probably not, no interest for obvious reasons. Pre-internet, absolutely. Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, etc were prevalent. BBS's existed too.
Anyway, what I was trying to say was, pre-internet it kinda required post-puberty hormones to be motivated enough to clear the hurdles to accessing porn.
Also, to another commenter’s point, the porn I was able to access was amazingly innocent by comparison to what is probably commonly available now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system
They kinda melded a little at the end of the BBS era and the beginning of the public internet era with integrated email and whatnot and you can still get to some via telnet, but they were distinct entities / networks / protocols from the internet.
BBS's entirely predate the Internet's general availability (although of course the Internet is older than most people realize).
I do remember a Playboy when it came out in 1971. The Willy Rey issue (girl on the stock certificate). Nice looking.
Not only were Playboys pretty rare, but they were a different kettle of fish than any modern adult images/video.
Are times better or worse? I couldn't tell you. Lots of differences. Many women never have children. Divorce is common. People aren't raised on farms with all the attendant physical realities of life. Slavery was common in most societies. People got married at young ages. Sex has been secretive or not depending on the era.
Probably the worst thing about porn is a scarring of the mind, sex as non-participatory act, exotica as normal, staring at screens, addictive behavior, the internet as a net negative.