THE FANTASY MACHINE
Chapter Ten - Girls Who Think They’re the Product
Section 10 of 15
CHAPTER TEN
Girls Who Think They’re the Product
IT’S NOT JUST boys getting rewired.
Girls are growing up in the same digital soup, but the signals hitting them are different.
They’re not watching porn to get off.
They’re absorbing it, often without meaning to, as a blueprint for what they’re supposed to be.
This starts early.
Before they ever see a full scene, they’re already learning the vibe.
What the body is supposed to look like.
How the voice is supposed to sound.
How pleasure is supposed to be performed.
Because porn isn’t just shaping arousal. It’s shaping expectation.
And for a lot of girls, it’s teaching them that their body isn’t theirs.
It’s a product.
Something to optimize. Pose. Present. Open.
Something that needs to be ready. Hairless. Responsive. Loud, but not too loud. Rough, but not too rough.
Perfect, but effortless.
They’re not told this in a class. They’re shown it everywhere.
In music videos. In ads. In jokes. In TikToks.
And underneath all of it is porn. Filtered, rebranded, and mainstreamed.
Even if they’re not watching full scenes, the porn logic is already there.
So what happens?
Girls start comparing themselves to the actresses they never asked to compete with.
They start editing photos, sucking in their stomachs, contouring their faces, and wondering if their body will ever be “enough.”
They start learning that performance matters more than comfort.
That moaning right matters more than speaking up.
That their job is to look turned on, not to actually be.
This isn’t always conscious. It doesn’t need to be.
That’s the thing about systems, they don’t need permission to function.
And the system has decided what sells.
And what sells is a girl who acts like a porn scene is just her personality.
So now you’ve got real girls in real situations trying to mimic what they’ve seen without even knowing that’s what they’re doing.
They arch their backs. They fake the sounds. They assume the script.
And deep down, they wonder if they’re doing it right.
Because no one ever taught them what real sex is supposed to feel like.
They only learned what it’s supposed to look like.
They didn’t become sexual beings.
They became sexual products.
And the saddest part is: a lot of them don’t even realize it.
They just think they’re being “hot.”
But what they’re really doing is roleplaying something they never wrote.
