Brainrotted by AGP porn

Incoming schizopost/vent rant, feel free to ignore

Porn has a deleterious effect on how its consumers see the world. Even in the realm of vanilla hetero PIV, men are picking up things like exaggerated physical standards and the normalization of aggressive behavior in sex. I've been consuming AGP-adjacent porn(stories, manga, TG captions, sissy hypno, etc) for almost two decades now, and feel like it's caused me to develop a similarly warped perception of realty, and especially concerning gender and womanhood. In the worst case, even my "dysphoria" and the desire to transition might be blamed on porn. Below, I'll list some impressions or tropes personally gleaned from ~20 years of jorkin it

Womanhood as a blessing

Some of the first TG stories I read were on Fictionmania, dating from the 90s. A recurring element was the idea of a man being transformed into a woman for some crime, like being overly misogynistic or cheating on a spouse. Here, being a girl was supposed to be a horrible punishment for the average man. Women, as the second sex, were inherently lesser than men in some way and the men in those stories usually ended up suffering tremendously. I suspect this sentiment came from the environment the authors grew up in, where gender relations were still greatly imbalanced.

Over time, however, the vibe started to shift to feature stories where the transformation into a woman is presented as a good thing. More common now are stories about ugly-to-average men being turned into sexy/cute(but for some reason seldom plain or homely) girls. After the changes, the transformed protagonist's life often improves: they gain more positive attention, build a better social life, and find love in a fulfilling relationship. Weirdly enough, few of the men in these stories are ever stated to be repressed MTFs; it's just that life as a woman is (supposedly) so much better than life as a male that they're willing to accept a sex change wholesale, sometimes even refusing the opportunity to change back. Unsure if the increase is due to transgender wish fulfillment or the changing role of the female gender after decades of feminism, or some other deal entirely. Someone actually wrote a PhD thesis on this phenomenon

-Incidentally, maybe because it's due to bias, but I've barely seen any stories where a woman becomes a man and their life improves for the better

Girls get more pleasure from sex

Not sure how this idea became a thing, but it's been around since antiquity if the myth of Tiresias is to be considered. In that myth, shortly after being turned into a woman, Tiresias resorts to prostitution. Later, when being asked to settle a dispute between gods, Tiresias says (paraphrasing) "women feel 10 times more pleasure from sex than men". Echoing that sentiment, a vast amount of TG narratives end up with the transformed man becoming a sex-addicted slut. While it sounds horrible, it can also be interpreted as a different blessing of sorts: sex as a man is boring, but sex as a woman is like a blissful, intoxicating drug. I imagine cis women reading those stories probably just roll their eyes, given women report achieving orgasm from sex less often compared to men. There is even a (kinda retarded IMO) theory floating around that porn creates AGPs because women in those videos seem to enjoy sex a lot more than men

Reinforcing rigid gender roles

This one is usually seen in the sissy-adjacent stuff. A man is feminized as punishment, but instead of misogyny or cheating, the crime is failing to be a man. The failings are numerous, and often include:

• -having a "beta" personality
• -being too short or skinny, having a small penis
• -not getting enough sex
• -being the "wrong" race (apparently white and asian men are more suited to being women?)

Like with incel rhetoric, these narratives reinforce strict, outdated gender roles where apparently being a man = being some macho caveman roidhead. Though I admit, it is a comforting fantasy for a man who struggles to meet the societal expectations of manhood to be able to just give up and try something else. Or even better, blame their failures on the fact that they were women all along. But these stories often present an equally-warped view of the female gender where feminized men are expected to just submit, take dicks, and have no adult responsibilities. They ignore that society also imposes strict gender expectations on women, and that being effeminate and weak is not the same as being feminine

Depictions of women in AGP media

In AGP stuff that features visuals, there are all sorts of depictions across various mediums: photos of actresses and models, 2D drawings of anime characters, 3D renders of some video game heroine, short clips of gorgeous girls off TikTok or Instagram, etc. It takes a single click on a phone or computer to bring up 100s of pictures of women, each more feminine and attractive than our medieval serf ancestors could ever dream about. Though one common factor is they embody an AGP's ideal of womanhood. Like I mentioned earlier, AGP fantasies aren't usually about becoming a regular woman, but becoming a perfect one with unblemished skin, flawless curves, and large breasts (though it varies depending on the individual).

A quick check with reality tells you how unrealistic those ideals are. The fictional women were dreamed up by artists trying to sell a product to horny men. The social media stars were filtered from the sieve of the internet and have 1-in-1000 genetics. Walk around the block and you'll probably see dozens of women who are overweight or elderly or just average-looking, but no less female because of it. But from a shut-in who is exposed to ideals more often than reality, it becomes possible to start thinking that is what women are like. To make a dumb comparison, it's like time-traveling back to the Irish potato famine and showing a starving peasant footage of some gourmet mukbang. In time, you start believing women are better than men because you're comparing the latter to exaggerated images

IDK what I wanted to achieve by writing all this, but it's done. Please let me know if you have thoughts on any of it, thanks