on some real shyt, i cut my porn intake by 95% a few months back and i have felt a lot better in general. course it probably has something (a lot) to do with my being clean too
i can say that getting high and busting a nut was a great feeling, so even the cutting down has been abetted by that. also i realized that getting high by yourself and jerking off were very similar to me - both things done completely alone and like my own little secret that gave me a buzz just in being able to execute it properly without anyone knowing (presumably at least
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never once had ED issues
but i would like to see some real scientific data behind it too. i do think porn definitely makes you complacent when it comes to women. it's like how batman made it out of bane's prison - if he knew he had that rope (porn to go home and jerk off to if you strike out that night), he would have never jumped with that much willpower (steeling nerves and risking embarrassment by talking to strange women). whether or not you expect women to be like porn stars and do all the nasty shyt and be able to bend their legs in 8 directions is entirely mental. any rational person realizes that it's an act that takes behind the scenes prep for that to happen (usually
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I think a documentary would be super informative. And I would hope that it wouldn't be trivializing those that featured in it or was putting them on display. Rather a look into another world, no matter how depraved it might turn out to be.
But, porn does do a few bad things that I've noticed.
The thing I've realized most about porn though is that people can never rationalize reasons to keep it around. At least good reasons. I've seen this debate on here and on sohh. The overwhelming majority of people all agreed and brought up coherent reasons as to why it was bad (complacency, unrealistic expectations (which is bad for women as well), saturation, ED for young men, curbed sexual urges etc. etc. etc.) Though I distinctly remember RG being on the other side. His only defense was that "There's nothing wrong with wanting to watch bad bytches brehs
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And I think that is in accord with the main rationalization I hear i.e. since it's everywhere, it's ok, it's normal, everything will be alright, when, at least with my experience and I'm sure others can attest, it's not.
Another problem is that there is no longer really 'soft porn' around. I mean, technically there is, but I don't see people new to porn really stopping at that point, there is always going to be more to look at. I was reading some comments though on an article about porn and some dude brought up the interesting idea thought that young people could begin to think that having a sex tape is the norm. That there will be a huge burst in the number of sex tapes, which is sorta funny to think about, sorta gross, but sorta alarming
but then again, people don't give young people enough credit I've found