SoMuchToSay ponders: Nature or Nurture?

So…I’m generally not a fan of nurture vs. nature debates, much like questioning whether the chicken or the egg came first, I find it pointless. Never the less, I’m going to have to raise one: is the mysteriously advance ability and aptitude of boys/men/males to find some of the most obscure and random pornography on the internet a result of nature or nurture?

As a freshman in college, I lived on a coed dorm floor and the skills that guys had in locating porn on the intranet was astounding. I’m not talking about your basic run of the mill site that can be located by Googling your favorite smutty word and clicking around until you give your computer a virus (better the computer than yourself.) I’m talking about disturbing (and at times bizarrely intriguing) websites with web addresses don’t even closely resemble anything I would recognize as a web address. This is the point in my internet education where I learned that www. isn’t necessarily a requisite prefix for a series of letters and numbers that direct your browser to a site. I’m reasonably computer savvy, but I would never have thought that “ dbrl;g;fjdaskl;dddbewdod.weohne///asdklafj;” would possibly lead you to a website with nothing but videos of donkey shows.

So…do they teach this to boys in middle school? Possibly while the girls are stuck doing step aerobics in gym class while the boys ostensibly “wrestle,” or while we’re in home economics and the boys are theoretically in “shop.” This was originally my thought, thus making this propensity towards finding obscure internet porn a nurtured skill. Until it was pointed out to me that when I was in middle school the internet was just becoming a big thing – something that only the rich people had. Even if you were rich enough to have AOL, it was all dial up which mean that if you were surfing for nakie pics you’d have to wait 20 minutes for it to come up, thus highly increasing the chances that your mom would walk in on you. Probably a decent deterrent I’m thinking. So…clearly this wasn’t taught to my generation in middle school, it’s as skill that they picked up later…say…naturally?

One might argue that males “naturally” have a greater predisposition to seeking out porn because they are “naturally” more visually stimulated and hormonally charged. Thus they “naturally” develop these preternatural internet skimming abilities. I don’t know about this one though. I have some pretty sketchy female friends that put most of the guys I know to shame in regards to wretched language, perversion and kink. Wouldn’t one think that these chicas would have the same location skills as guys? Yet they don’t.

I just don’t get it. Is it nature or nurture?