Are the psycho-sexual aspects of ourselves fixated from a relatively early age,

Are the psycho-sexual aspects of ourselves fixated from a relatively early age,

Are the psycho-sexual aspects of ourselves fixated from a relatively early age, so that "turn ons" are conditioned if not unalterably then in some way that fixes in ourselves certain ideas about what it is for something to be sexual in nature? Should considerations about this act as impetus to revise any aspects of the media and popular culture, including of course, pornography, which is one of the largest domains of media-culture despite being confined to less blatant forms of presentation (than, say, advertisments for "Big Macs")? Finally, I have the idea that cyber-porn (and to a lesser extent all cyber-sex) is covertly homo-erotic when men use it to get off on "straight" screen sex. This isn't entirely true, sex is sex and breasts are breasts, but the fact that a machine which could be (not unfairly) called a "boys toy" is being used as the platform for a mathematically constructed system of media exchange (viz. the world wide web) that was developed primarily by men. Crucially, the sex scenes themselves are heavily male edited, and in many of them there is little left of female sensuality (and, perhaps not coincidentally, a hugely disproportionate screenage of male/female genitilia as compares to sex in the flesh). Doesn't that amount to "getting off on" a male conception of sexuality (or one form of it), and if so, can that count as homoerotic? [Feel free to respond to all or just some of these questions]

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