First brain study on porn users published today.
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Madaemosewa
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Don't you all get extremely annoyed by the documentaries of TV lately about pornographies effects on society. They all focus on complete nonsense and irrelevant points of view from people who've not got any clues about it's affect. The abundance of these docs makes them a clich? in a way. YBOP aims to make it common knowledge pornography consumption can cause a host of problems, and ignorant producers wasting air time are not helping us in our aim here- instead spreading their ignorance across the country. For example ''Tyger takes on porn'' is merely but one example- focusing on sexual relationships- rather than getting the point that it should be recognised as any other addiction and can cause hypofrontality and desensitization- so personally sexual relationships aren't high on the agenda as there are many more important issues. Also, in another documentary they wasted many valuable minutes of my life I will never get back asking ignorant teenagers about whether it should be taught that porn is not real- [Of course not! How's that going to stop the addiction epidemic? Nearly all know it's not real- but that doesn't stop the pointless self abuse.] Also they all go on an on an on about how easy access is to porn- it's not exactly an original thought and it's obvious really. What are your thoughts on this subject?
I imagine that the porn industry, which has its roots deeply embedded in big business, is waging a war of propaganda using shopworn clich?s to defend itself. It's much like the tobacco industry, trying in vain to find some way to defend the poisons that they sell. Smoking is bad for you, there's no way of getting around that fact, but the tobacco companies try to undermine the overwhelming evidence against their products because they know that tobacco consumers can use their nonsense to rationalize their continued use.Madaemosewa said:
For my own sake I only need to know one thing, my life has improved dramatically since I stopped masturbating and using porn. I think that would prove true for anyone caught in the cycle of porn use.
Bibbity
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Great points Madaemmosewa and lte! I agree with lte's take about big business but also NO ONE LISTENS!! There have been countless research studies touting the harmful effects of porn since the 80's but absolutely nothing changed. Porn simply propelled forward breaking up families and creating disease in the human psyche. I read a stat the over 50% of divorces are due to porn use. Ugh. I think the people who actually care about this know that docs and research is not going to really change things. The light needs to be shed on this epidemic and I definitely feel that there is a major shift happening in the right direction.
I dunno. It's so frustrating
I dunno. It's so frustrating
I know that porn was involved in over 50% of my divorces.Bibbity said:Great points Madaemmosewa and lte! I agree with lte's take about big business but also NO ONE LISTENS!! There have been countless research studies touting the harmful effects of porn since the 80's but absolutely nothing changed. Porn simply propelled forward breaking up families and creating disease in the human psyche. I read a stat the over 50% of divorces are due to porn use. Ugh. I think the people who actually care about this know that docs and research is not going to really change things. The light needs to be shed on this epidemic and I definitely feel that there is a major shift happening in the right direction.
I dunno. It's so frustrating
Theres some humor in my presentation but I do take it very seriously. I ruined much of my life through porn and now I am paying for my misdeeds. Sadly, I will never be able to make up for the pain I have caused others. I think that there is some positive news. I've been saying for a long time that Internet porn addiction is the tip of a very large iceberg. IMO, porn is merely a stimulant and the seeking if this artificial sexual stimulation is the true root of the problem. IOW, if people weren't seeking something from porn, so,etching beyond normal entertainment, then porn would have little, if any effect. In fact, for some people, porn does not have any appeal. It's effect to these people is usually disgust.
Speaking for only myself, I was inadvertently taught that porn was different, potent, exciting, by the reaction that I had observed in others when the subject of porn came up. Porn itself is inert. It has no more intrinsic power than a photograph or movie of any other subject. If you saw a movie depicting people eating fried chicken it would probably not elect any particular response unless there were mitigating circumstances. If you were hungry you might find that such a sight stimulated your appetite. If you were concerned about the fat content in fried chicken you might find the sight of that much fat being consumed to be somewhat distressing and if you were an animal activist that had strong feelings about the way chickens are raised and butchered you might have a very strong negative reaction to this particular video. Now, let's deconstruct that and see how it applies to porn.
Suppose you were a parent of a young woman that had been entrapped in the world of porn after answering an ad for modeling work. If you had watched as your daughter's life was destroyed by the porn industry you might have a similar reaction to an animal activist watching a video of people eating fried chicken.
If you had seen the negative effects of porn use harm a friend or loved one you might have a similar reaction as a health conscious person would when they watched the fried chicken video. Your reaction would be based upon concern for the effects upon people that were consumers of porn.
Perhaps the most vulnerable group, as regards pornography's effects would be people viewing because of sexual frustration. This would be similar to someone that was very hungry when they watched the fried chicken video. Here's the key, you can watch people eating chicken all day long and it will do nothing to satisfy your hunger. It might increase your hunger to see this video. If you were confined and could not seek real food such a video could become troubling but it might also be hard to resist.
Now, there is a fourth group with regard to porn, there are people that have no strong feelings whatsoever. Regarding the subject. Just like the people that viewed the fried chicken video with ambivalence, there are plenty of people out there that have no interest in porn, at least most of a the time.
The problem is that people are not static creatures. A man that has no interest in porn normally might have a different reaction if he were exposed to porn when there were problems in his marriage or if he were somehow sexually frustrated and vulnerable to seeking sexual satisfaction from non productive sources.
The video of people eating fried chicken could be an advertisement for a fried chicken restaurant and, as such, designed to encourage the consumption of fried chicken, in spite of the fact that fried chicken is not a particularly healthy thing to eat on a regular basis. Porn, in a sense, is a form of advertising too. Porn advertises sex as something that is devoid of emotional consequence. I've seen a shameful volume of porn in my lifetime and I have yet to see porn that includes scenes that depict the consequences that follow. Porn doesn't tell us about the emotional pain felt by the actors but many porn actresses have spoken out about it. Porn doesn't tell us about any disease that is transmitted during the production. AIDS outbreaks have happened, HPV is ubiquitous and potentially deadly. Chlamydia and Gonorreah are common among porn actors as well but you are not going to see that in a porn video any more than you would see an obese actor in a fried chicken commercial.
Hopefully the public will abandon its ignorance and come to see porn for what it truly is, a misleading advertisement for a harmful product.
The product I mention above, IMO, is the false hope OS sexual satisfaction apart from emotional engagement. One key realization in my journey has been that sexual,satisfaction come, not from the physical sensations of sexual activity but, instead, they come from the emotional aspect.
Bibbity
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Great post and great analogy lte! Sometimes I think we as women have a different perspective on sex because we aren't fed the same bullshit you guys are. The "product" indeed is creating this "hook up" culture we see now. Zero emotions, 50 different positions and no satisfaction.....at least for the women . Young girls think they are competing with porn so their desires go out the window as they recreate "scenes" during sex.
. Young girls think they are competing with porn so their desires go out the window as they recreate "scenes" during sex.