Again, ignorance about the risks of anal sex is a considerable problem. Yeah, I know you guys don't want to acknowledge this. And I know why. But I'm going to keep on regardless.

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Excerpt from http://the217.com/articles/view/how_porn_is_ruining_anal_sex

Some experts claim that it is ridiculous to presume that people don’t know the difference between what they see on TV and what happens in real life. Both of us have seen and heard the opposite. We’ve heard questions, misinformation, confusion and people dumbfounded by things they saw — and believed — due to porn. When in a safe space where we can ask people if they learned this misinformation from porn, men and women alike answer, “Yes! It’s not true?” Take into consideration that the average age of first-time consumption of online pornography is 11. At this age, accurate sex education is missing in lots of schools, homes and churches. If this is where we are getting out information, it’s surprising we’re managing to have good sex at all.

Lies My Porn Taught Me

One of the things porn misinforms us about is how anal sex happens. Pleasurable anal sex for either a man or woman is slow, involves lots of lube, and — particularly for first-timers — receiving partners should control the speed and depth of thrusting. Like any sex, good anal sex is consensual, safe and partners check in with each other to ensure pleasure. That’s not to say that seasoned folks don’t like anal sex to be fast and deep. But mainstream porn, the porn that most folks watch, provides us with only one variation of anal sex: fast, hard and violent.

Porn normalizes not only how often anal sex takes place, but also tells us that anal sex is violent, not pleasurable. How should you treat your partner’s body? Porn tells us that their “asshole” should be “packed, torn, ripped, slammed and pounded until pink and puffy.” We’re not making this up. If you rent a porn video or access porn online, check out the language they use to describe anal sex. How did anal pleasure turn into anal “torture”? And what turns us on about rectums that are “blown out and in need of diapers”? That is not hot sex and is not how anal sex actually happens in real life, at least not between caring, intimate partners who are concerned about mutual pleasure and good sex.