Is it bad to watch porn?

Nope... nothing wrong with it!

 

Some have said it will desensitize you, and others claim it will influence your sexual behavior and expectations in an unhealthy manner. However, I tend to view it as almost anything else -- in moderation, my friend, in moderation.

Me, personally. I've watched it from time to time, but as I've gotten older, the viewing tendency has shrunk. It's still there, mostly due to curiosity, but it isn't so much a "OHMERGAWD! SO HORNIEZ!" now.

 

^What she said.

 

If it is then I'm in trouble lol

 

I think it can be viewed to excess, yes, and it can also teach us dysfunctional standards of beauty and entitlement to other people's bodies that we shouldn't have.

But I'd like to think I'm resistant to that kind of thinking.

And I can't lie, I've watched probably more than my fair share of porn.

 

Nope, I think it's fine.

I never watched it till recently, with the advent of sites where people could post their own videos/pics...this way, I can finally find the various little fetishes and sorts of people I like, and see people who don't look all stereotypical. Prior to this, things we're pretty limited, and gay porn was like watching The Village People: A bit corny.

Plus, watching it with my mate from time to time helps me explain things I'd like to try, and helps peak his interest, and vice-versa.

It's not something I watch a lot, but I'm glad the field has evolved to be much more inclusive and less and less dominated by the purely commercial sites.

 

The idea of sex being available to watch at will is not in and of itself a bad thing, no. The porn industry, however, is certainly a very bad thing, because porn stars are expected to do things that are not at all safe (continuous vigorous sex [and porn sex generally fits this category] causes a lot of pain, a lot of the male porn stars are so hung it causes injuries, the way anal sex is usually done has to leave the girl a wreck afterwards, and in California their partners are barely STD tested and condoms not common, porn stars have little freedom in choosing partners if they want to keep working, the drug use is at an insane rate because of the physical and mental pain and exhaustion of the job, and pay is often shit). The moral problem is not porn, it's porn producers. The worker abuse rate is insane. I don't think porn is inherently bad or in need of being banned, but the people who make it need to be under a ton of regulation, because right now being a porn star entails a level of abuse that we as a society can never afford to tolerate.

 

Only if it interferes with your personal life (i.e. you watch it for 20 hours a day and talk to nobody or do nothing else or something else similar).

 

It's weird, but I only watch porn people post for fun (individuals or couples) because they enjoy making/sharing the videos. It feels so much different from 'produced' porn, which always felt fake, phony and contrived to me, and would fail to excite me. That, and many of the niches I like have too small an audience to be made 'commercially'. I mean, there's not a huge call for videos about dressing up in latex puppy-suits and masks, and wrestling around and cuddling and what not, or in inflatable fox suits, in cos-play scenarios, and things along similar lines

 

I don't think it's a bad thing. I use it as an educational tool. I am not into it really. I only own maybe like 4 DVD's and i only watched 1. As long as you don't go overboard it should be okay.

 

As long as you don't abuse it and it doesn't become an addiction, no. It's fine. It's like alcohol: responsibility is the key.

 

I completely agree with that above statement. Word!!!

 

Alex Naquin (youtuber: LifeOfAGay) who is a openly gay youtuber from 16 to however old he is now, once said roughly "Everybody watches porn, if they say they haven't or don't they are lair"

 

I believe it's ok to watch porn. But as said before, only in moderation.

 

There are many different types of videos/photos that are referred to as "porn"... some are rather plain and tame, and at the other end some include (fake or real) examples of violence, abusive language and behaviour, etc... Repeat watching while performing solo will inevitably create associations in your mind... You may want to be mindful of that and choose the type of porn (if any) accordingly. Just sayin...

 

As long as it isn't an addiction then no nothing wrong.

 

In moderation, no. I've really cut back in the past 2 weeks since I'm been trying to really find myself. If used for masturbation, I can tell you that masturbating to fantasies is more pleasurable. Porn however makes you feel better because it makes it easier to envision a sexually attractive person.

 

Porn is the devil! If you watch it your penis will fall off and be eaten by satan!

In all seriousness though, so long as you don't develop a liking to shagging your neighbors cat, or have some weird rape fantasies, you should be fine, porn in itself is a useful tool to relieve yourself of stress (If only for a small period of time) and do so in a safe and healthy way. Just try not to think that what they do is necessarily ok (And it's about at this point I'd start to lecture on about safe sex and birth control and yada yada yada, you should know this already...)