Let’s forget consumer behavior and marketing for a second. How is the prevalence of internet porn going to change things in the future?

The incredible reach of the internet has given pornography near mainstream status. There are virtually no barriers to explicit material online. It seems like a celebrity sex tape is “leaked” every week.

Among college-age men, alcohol consumption is almost on par with pornography consumption. Roughly half of college-age women surveyed found pornography use acceptable, while only roughly a third of their fathers approved of it. See this journal article on (PDF) Generation XXX for more interesting tidbits.

In North American culture, sex sells. Are we eventually going to get bored of it? What effect might this have?