Welch’s porn fatigue
Raquel Welch thinks that Internet porn has ruined America’s men.
Raquel Welch thinks that Internet porn has ruined America’s men, said Eric Spitznagel in Men’s Health. “It’s an exploitation of the poor male’s libido,” says the 71-year-old actress. “Poor babies, they can’t control themselves. I just imagine them sitting in front of their computers, completely annihilated. They haven’t done anything, they don’t have a job, they barely have any ambition anymore.” This addiction to online erotica, Welch says, has damaged men’s ability to relate to real women. “It makes for laziness and a not very good sex partner. Do they know how to negotiate something that isn’t prefab and injected directly into their brains?” Welch is aware that some people might accuse her of becoming a prude in her old age. “I don’t care if I’m becoming one of those old fogies who says, ‘Back in my day we didn’t have to hear about sex all the time,’” she says. “Nobody remembers what it’s like to be left to form your own ideas about what’s erotic and sexual. I thought that was the fun of the whole thing. It’s my fantasy. I didn’t pick it off the Internet somewhere.”
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