I think porn has kind of ruined sex for me.  Not really, because sex for me is still awesome, but it's definitely had an effect on the way I see women, sex, and myself.  The interesting thing for me is that my "unrealistic" views of women don't come from the professionally made videos on fancy websites.  I know the women in those videos are surgically enhanced professionals putting on a show for the cameras.  It's more from the amateur porn pictures and videos I see on a variety of websites, message boards, and even on here.  I see all these incredibly hot 18-25 year old girls who apparently let the men in their lives take naked pictures of them and film them sucking dick, fucking in all sorts of crazing positions, and getting cum shot all over them.  I see very average looking guys not just having threesomes and group sex with hot girls, but being allowed to take pictures of it.  It makes it look like having crazy sex with hot girls who love being filmed is the norm, and I seem somehow weird for not living that lifestyle.

I'm sure a lot of the amateur porn I see is largely faked in some way or another.  Photoshop is used to make girls look prettier (and the pictures of mediocre or bad looking girls are never posted online if they are taken at all), the accompanying stories are blatant lies, and all the hot 18-year-old girls claiming to post pictures of themselves are probably guys repost pictures that were originally taken in 2004.  But at some point there were those hot girls who were willing to get naked and have pictures taken of them, and I feel like I'm missing out on that.  Also, despite my self assurances that none of the amateur porn on the internet is as real as it claims to be, there's always the nagging doubt in the back of my mind that the sex lives described and shown on messageboards across the internet are actually true and I'm the loser missing out.

I know these thoughts are stupid.  I have a wonderful girlfriend who I get to have sex with on a regular basis.  I shouldn't need to compare my sex life to the real or imagined sex lives of others.  But I do it anyway, and then I feel like mine is kind of shitty.