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Is porn really unhealthy?

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  1. CandyKing

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    What are your thoughts on porn.
     
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    I think it's fine if It's in moderation/not addicted to it, and you have to realize It's fantasy and real relationships and sex don't work that way.
     
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  3. NingyoBroken

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    Naw, it's nice, I like it haha
     
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    This exactly.
     
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    ditto.
     
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    There's good and bad. If you use it for occasional entertainment/sexual arousal, it probably isn't bad. But most of it, over time, impacts your views and values and perceptions about people and what sex looks like, and if you watch porn a lot, it can have a tendency to numb you a bit to sexual arousal.

    And there are a few people for whom porn can be really addictive.

    In short, in reasonable amounts, if you use some common sense and don't buy into the stereotypes and false perceptions, it can be fine entertainment. Just be thoughtful.
     
  7. asdfghjk

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    did u no 2 much porn..... will turn ur temporal lobe purple??? a study was. done on the brains of porn adict.s. result was, blood flow of porn reach temporal lobe emotion, blood blue to pink brain....overtime make secsion of brain. purple,,........

    th more u k.now...........,
     
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    Too much porn is unhealthy so I say it can be good and bad as well .
     
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    I agree with this.
     
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    I think of it's viewed in moderation and not all the time, then it's like anything else that can be unhealthy in taken in too much.. I go through stages where I watch it a few nights in a row and then I won't watch it for months and months. You do need to see if for what it is though, it's for entertainment and nothing else and you need to know how to use is and view it responsibly.
     
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    porn is good for people who doesn't have a sex life. That brain study is a very good example of bad science. You cannot come to a conclusion just by analyzing single variable. Also they don't have a control group and non random selected 64 people is way too small. Anyways I feel much better after watching a porn movie and release the sexual stress by masturbation. I am much better at decision making or at work when I masturbate regularly as the hormone levels are much better and serotonin is usually higher. I can focus much better. I think you shouldn't care those low quality so called scientific studies and try to be moderate. That's my two cents.
     
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    To an extent, I believe it's okay. Not too much of it though, like with everything else in life.
     
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    Ah, but you are associating porn and masturbation, and they are completely different things. People masturbated for thousands of years before the advent of porn video :slight_smile:

    All of the benefits you describe for masturbation (for that matter, any orgasm source) are real, and there are many more, including immune system boost and various other things. But none of those have anything to do with porn.

    Honestly, I believe that there's a lot more long-term value in developing fantasies in your own mind rather than watching porn. It stimulates brain creativity, development of fantasy, gives you more direct control over hormone and other neurotransmitter activity... and it's free, doesn't program unhealthy imagery, and various other things :slight_smile:
     
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    I personally have shifting and uncertain view on it. I was raised to think it was wrong, but I have used it on occasion. On one hand, it's sort of a desecration of natural human sexuality turning it into something it shouldn't be, but I also am not sure if I ever would have truly discovered my sexuality without porn to be honest.

    It still feels wrong to me because I do enjoy it, if that makes sense. I have also recognized in myself some of the beginning stages of addiction to it at times when I binge, so I try as much as I can to stay away from it. I have an addictive personality, and it runs in my family.
     
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    I'm pretty much addicted to it and have yet to see any negative effect of it elsewhere in mylife just sayin
     
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    I think its an addiction like smoking
     
  17. Anonymous777

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    No, it isn't. Unless you spend most of the day watching it.
     
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    I'm not too keen on it. Yes, I've watched it, but usually, it's more so out of curiosity. Once it goes beyond the kissing and touching, it can become quite... well, dull. When it reaches this point, if I'm still watching it, I tend to just sort of observe. But, more often than not, I'm rather unimpressed with the go-to-routine, most porn embraces.

    I have no issue with those who do watch it, alone or with partners. It's their decision, but like with most anything in life, too much, and it can become a problem. I've been told of instances where people can't 'get it up', because "real life" isn't as stimulating as the "porn world", and obviously this is a problem. But moderation is key -- as well as self-discipline.

    That said, I like to think, I could produce a sexier scenario with somebody, than a silly pornographic scenario, LOL.
     
  19. ccdd

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    ^ This.

    I think it can be unhealthy, especially if you become addicted to it, need it to become aroused, you think it is real or how real men and women act, or you find yourself having to look at more and more extreme porn to become aroused.

    Occasional use where you're aware that what you're watching is a show and you're aware of these problems is probably less unhealthy. But I do think you have to remain constantly vigilant to how often you're using it etc. I do think that no porn is probably healthiest.
     
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    This exactly.