How does porn affect you?

I feel emotionally flat and can’t get sexually aroused. I’ve tried looking at porn, all kinds of porn, to see if I find anything that works. Nothing. Only my wife’s interest. Only the real world works for me… Once in a while.

How does porn affect you?

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I think porn is disgusting, in multiple ways. I don’t want to elaborate, here. But I really despise it. It’s gross.

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I think that’s a healthy attitude. Degrading stuff. Doesn’t work for me.

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Makes me sexually less sensitive to pleasure…

And disturbed by what I watch.

Like guilty conscience…

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I, personally, think sex is gross

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Is that learned or inate?

I don’t watch porn since over a decade. It makes addicted and I have masturbated more often because of it. I watched from 20 to 21 for a year porn and then quit. It effects the mind in a bad way. I think moderate consume of it, wouldn’t be to harmful, but who can watch something like that in a moderate way?

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I watch a few times a week, good easy outlet for stress and to release sexual tension since I left my gf. Didn’t watch porn when I had a gf.

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Also gives me something different to do lol

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@Unclehenry Innate. I identify as asexual. Like, I can put myself in sexual situations with a partner and enjoy myself, but I don’t experience sexual attraction and sex just isn’t a driver for me. It’s just sort of icky.

Sorry if that’s tmi :sweat_smile:

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I stopped looking at porn cuz everytime I masturbate, the side effects act up like crazy and I get all tired.

I’m good with my coffee and nicotine hah.

:coffee::smoking:

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Yea its a good sleep aid lol it makes me sleepy.

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I have got to stop watching porn.
95% of the stuff on there is criminal.
Really disgusting stuff!

I am determined to quit, I have to because without getting into details it’s feeding into some of my delusions.

I feel gross and sick to my stomach after watching porn.

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Totally disgusting, I can’t watch it, have to turn my eyes away, it’s a major damaging trigger

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I also do not like watching porn each day. But I gotta do what I gotta do.

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I think porn is gross. But sometimes mostly due to antidepressants, i fall into the pit, and feel sad afterwards.

A friend of mine stopped seeing porn. He said it had a bad influence on his sexual fantasies.

I think he is right.

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I once went three months without watching porn

Studies have shown that the same areas of the brain as cocaine addicts light up when you watch it

It can be seriously addicting

Among other things, it can reduce your masculinity, your confidence with girls and gives you a flawed sense of what is acceptable in a sexual relationship

Too many guys want to try what they see in the movies on real girls, but the girls find that disgusting

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If I type what kind of porn I used to watch and might watch. It will get deleted.

My point is that I don’t understand why so many people like things like that when it’s morally wrong in real life.

I mean is it a good excuse to say well it’s just fantasy?

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For a lot of people, fantasies are not at all things they would like to experience in real life. In a sexual context or otherwise. For example, many people fantasize about being superheros or action stars. But they would not actually enjoy having to be in such situations in reality.

Fantasy is generally harmless, even if the thing you are fantasizing about would cause harm if it happened in real life.

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I had to stop watching porn: It was bad for me, feeding intrusive thoughts. When I watched porn I gave it too much of my attention, and then when I met new people all I could think about was boobies.

When I’m not viewing porn I am more attuned to people I think, and more interested in their lives and what they have to say. I feel more connected to people this way, without porn.

The thing is, people turn their trauma into kinks. It’s like if you take violence on it’s own then it’s horrific, but if you add sex then suddenly it becomes enjoyable. It’s some ■■■■■■ up coping mechanism.

I was coping with loneliness I think, and rejection and abandonment and bullying trauma.

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