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> I'm extremely skeptical that it's caused by porn. More men are on Propecia than in the past. Probably more anti-depressants, too. And it seems to me that people have really ratcheted up the anxiety in general, over the last 20 years or so.

That is also a little harsh, but I agree. Most likely they did not have the means to collect data on it rather than the means at which they do so today.

It also could be that it was not considered manly to talk about your feelings 20 years ago...

You also did not access to hundreds of thousands of naked men and woman within seconds with a simple google search 20 years ago, whereas you had to find yourself some "contraband" if you were under 18 ,back then.



> Most likely they did not have the means to collect data on it rather than the means at which they do so today.

Or what they're looking at is diagnoses of erectile dysfunction, which might have some connection to drugs being approved and heavily marketed for it.


Not with Google .. but 20 years ago internet porn was easy to find, eg via Usenet. But lower bandwidth would mean even images loaded slowly.

I hypothesise oestrogen mimicking chemicals in toiletries, and maybe plastics?, probably have some part in this.




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