Before the internet we had to brave the adult book store to get videos and magazines or make a trip out to the strip club. Times have definitely changed and this has had an obvious impact upon our society as a whole. Daytime talk shows dedicate hours upon hours debating and talking about internet pornography. There are some psychologists that think people can become addicted to pornography. It's also a subject that comes up in many relationships, often causing problems.

What has happened to porn these days? It's not so much content as it is availability. In about five seconds, porn can be easily located via Google. Movies can be downloaded into cell phones and I-pods for porn on the go. There are over four hundred million web pages of pornography that can be easily accessed. It's not like the days when we just had a small stash of magazines hidden in the closet for a lonely rainy day.

Everyday, there are new messages in my email offering nude women, amongst other things, that would make a prostitute blush and web cam girls that pester me over instant messaging. Websites like Myspace include graphic advertisements offering sexy girls and quick hookups. I did not ask for any of this, I don't open the emails, and the ads go unclicked. Even my grandmother gets emails regarding Viagra and young women doing unspeakable things with food items.

We live in a very sexual society, as can be seen everywhere. From fashion to laxatives, sex sells and we buy. If sexy young women wearing almost nothing at all were on every street corner selling cookies, men's cabinets would always be filled with Oreos and Nilla wafers. Needless to say, if it's a click away we are more likely to do so.

Anything in excess can be harmful; too many late nights of looking at internet porn can lead to carpal tunnel and hairy palms. It can cause tensions in relationships, lack of sleep, and an increased cost in laundry expenses. There is nothing wrong with looking at pornography, it's how much and when. As mentioned before, it is very easy to get nowadays and very easy to become a regular habit.

If pornography is causing stress in your love life, doing something to take your mind off of things would be a good idea. Like carpentry, there is nothing like sanding some wood to take your mind off of fornication. I've always found that casting my rod down at the creek helps ease tensions. Cold showers are also effective but women be warned, men can become violently ill if they are not exposed to sex on a regular basis.

In my perfect vision, I see the internet as a place where children and the elderly can navigate the internet without seeing two Japanese girls and a cup. In my perfect internet, single guys can access Brazilian beauties, middle aged women in tiny cubicles can watch long haired muscley guys walk around in tight underwear all with a single click, and my email will have messages from real people and not a weird web site offering images of young aborigines frolicking in the jungle.

I’ve thought much about this particular topic and at one time could relate with the women of the world against the evil sin of pornography. Then I turned around and realized the hypocrisy in my anger.

Women should care less about their boyfriend oiling his engine and more about their own selfish needs. The truth is women are a lot more complicated when it comes the subject of (dare I say it) sex.

What can take a man five minutes to accomplish can take a women ten times longer. That is something women should be proud of because results show that in this case the end, no matter how long the wait, most definitely justifies the means.

If a man can watch pornographic videos all day while his girlfriend's at work or school and still be ready to “give her a go” the second she walks through the door then more power to him - as long as his performance doesn’t suffer as a result.

Heaven forbid a man pass thoughts of another woman through his head, while his girlfriend tries so hard to stimulate him with her own visuals. It’s not like women would ever do such a thing.

Instead of a girl worrying about what she might accidentally stumble on her boyfriend doing to himself one day, she should set aside her own “private” time. To make it even sweeter, she should tell her boyfriend all about her new plan to self-reflect every day and let him know, no boys allowed. After all he gets his, she should get hers too.

It also may not be a bad idea for her to consider getting a lock for the computer room door because otherwise her boyfriend is probably going to make several attempts to turn “her” wind down time into “their” wind down time. The anticipation of a man having his cake and eating it too might be enough to drive him crazy, which could very easily work to a female’s advantage.

Lucky for girls, there is a world of mechanisms and machines that can do better work than most men out there. Why allow fear of such things to hinder the experience of something that comes so natural? I say, let the men have their play time, because nothing they do with theirs is going to be half as awesome as what their girlfriend does with hers.

If women would open themselves up to the unknown world of nudity and scandalous pornographic behavior, they would rarely have problems with their boyfriend’s addiction because they may easily become more consumed with their own.

Who said porn was a man’s hobby anyway?

The world of pornography is scarier to think about than it is to actually explore. What a girl might think she never wants to see could quickly turn into something she can’t live without.