Is porn harmful for your mental or physical health?
I don’t think porn is harmful at all. But I do think it can give you unrealistic expectations about what people and sex are supposed to be like.
As long as you’re not expecting your partner to look like a porn star, you should be ok!
Anthony
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There have been studies claiming that the brain on porn is overworking some dopamine reward systems (porn accompanied by masturbation is basically tricking the brain into thinking you’re having sex) and therefore making it harder to find pleasure (basic tolerance and habituation stuff).
I watch porn. I’m 20, full of testosterone and lifting hundreds of pounds multiple times a week. I just don’t watch unrealistic weird gangbang porn, I watch porn that is realistic, often just like sex I have had in real life, so it’s basically a substitute for sex in my case. I do date people, currently I am on the rebound from a friend with benefits, and I last had sex two weeks ago with a guy. Guy was an old friend who was “bi-curious” and a few days later he said he didnt want to do it again. But I date people rather frequently and sometimes it goes right to second base on the first date. If I don’t kiss on the first date, I usually give up on the person, I am too attractive and intelligent to take rejection, call me a prick.
For example, a gay guy in one of my classes who lives with his partner has been making out with me after school. A couple weeks ago, I went to a club with another guy who lives with his partner and we dirty danced for a while and proceeded to make out and feel each other.
It’s a fact that I am attractive, so I get a lot of gays hitting on me (but not girls, go figure) but I am picky about who I spend time with. I want someone who is as smart as me and also attractive, for example I will be working out with a grad student at my school this coming week, he seems like a good candidate. I have dated a couple of guys I met at a club, and to put it simply, they were losers and I was turned off. But this grad student seems like that outlier that I have been looking for.
But anyways, (I always go on rants, sorry) porn is fine as long as it doesnt hurt anybody, that’s what I think. I myself watch relatively realistic and tasteful porn, porn that is just people having sex, not that freaky weird ■■■■that composes 90% of the internet. Again, if it’s not sexual behavior that I have actually experienced, I consider it potentially harmful because it will give incorrect expectations about sex.
I actually do sort of want my partners to be porn quality, because I myself am. But average joe should expect to have sex with average jane.
I don’t suppose you mean to but you are coming over as quite narcissistic with all this talk of how attractive you are. At the end of the day it does good to remember that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and may be judged on more than intellectual and physical attributes.
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Or act like one 
very unrealistic.
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I know I am narcissistic. I mean do you want some picture of me as proof of how attractive i am?
I mean im talking blood sweat and tears go into my body
But your attitude is so self absorbed, there is no room for anyone else.
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I would be so afraid of a partner that acted like a porn star.
I don’t see porn as harmful either. But it’s just never appealed to me.
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Thx guys for all your reply,would try my best not to watch pornography…
I think yours(@radmedtech) is the most reasonable ones,but i think i will stick to refraining from porn and hopefully masturbating lesser,i believe refraining from porn would help a little in getting me more loved by my partner,i spend like 5minute watching porn(if i did) but i don’t wish to continue this habit for me…i am open to more suggestion so that i can conclude this habit of mine
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I can’t honestly say I know. For a while I leaned towards thinking it was harmful. I thought it objectified women. However, I’ve read some literature from guys before pornography was nearly as prevalent as now, and those guys were more obsessed with the private parts of women than we are now. The feminists are split down the middle on this. I don’t think anyone can say for certain.
No it is not harmful in the least. One should watch it in all of their free time. In fact you shouldn’t even be on the forum right now because you should be watching porn.
They are dealing drugs. They do nothing and make large amounts of money for it and then run throughout your cities lording over you. You like working for porn dealers? Because thats what people are doing.
Boycott the industry.
People have an insatiable sexual appetitie that needs to be kept in check. It isn’t healthy to flood the planet with your species.
@pansdisease, I thought you would see porn as better for humans to do than make babies.
Porn is what it is. As long as it isn’t illegal or deviant, porn can be a healthy way to release tension. It is a form of escapism
When pornography becomes obsessive or replaces normal and healthy romantic relationships, then this becomes a problem
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I’ve never been that big into porn. I just see it as another outlet of an industry that perpetuates the body myth and anorexia.
Plus when I was younger and watched it, I got bored.
I don’t know, just something about it never held any interest for me.
It either reminded me that I don’t have a girl friend. Now that I have a girlfriend, why watch porn? I’d rather spend time with her then be hulled up in my room alone.
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He is very attractive. Not to me in the sexual sense, but I can tell you as a photographer who wouldn’t mind having him as a model that he has classical good looks combined with a seriously sculpted physique. Don’t doubt he catches the attention of both the d00ds and the ch1x0rz. 
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I think it can lead to unrealistic expectations from a sexual partner. I also feel that viewing it is disrespectful to one’s spouse.
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It’s complicated.
But wouldn’t porn have something to do with the babies being made?