8 Ways Porn Can Negatively Affect You

[Anonymous]

8 Ways Porn Can Negatively Affect You

Porn is an ever invasive presence in our lives. It’s available free, on many sites and is constantly trying to get our attention via pop-up ads or banners. It is no wonder then that more and more people are watching porn and that porn sites like PornHub see more traffic than most others. It is, however, foolish to think that all this porn-viewing will not affect the viewers. Here are some ways porn can negatively affect you .

1. Watching porn induces the Coolidge Effect, where people seek newness. That means sex will only be fun for you if you can manage to find new partners all the time. It’ll be harder to get and stay aroused if you get into a long-term relationship.

2. Porn is affecting younger and younger kids, with kids younger than 12 admitting that they’ve watched porn. That’s means they’re starting off with very unrealistic expectations at very impressionable ages.

3. Cambridge University conducted brain scans of porn addicts and found that they looked exactly like those of drug addicts.link here

4. Porn addicts believe that their addiction causes depression and anxiety, and it also negatively affects their ability to find a romantic partner.

5. Watching porn releases dopamine which causes pleasure, but regular release of dopamine desensitizes the brain and leads to a dull response to sexual stimulation over time.This dulling of the dopamine effect means that viewers need to watch more porn than before to experience any pleasure. They also need to watch more graphic and extreme content.

6. One of the effects of an orgasm is the release of oxytocin, the bonding hormone, which helps bind you to your partner. When you watch porn, your ‘partner’ is in the screen, so your brain forms an attachment to those images, driving you to keep watching porn.

7. Porn can quickly go from being a casual pastime to a full blown addiction that takes up hours each day and can take a toll on the body.

8. Porn viewing does something strange to men: it makes them have high expectations from women; yet in real life, their preference is for a computer screen and a bottle of lotion rather than a real woman.

[Anonymous]

i find it very interesting that you put a gif of don jon in here xD cause when i´ve seen that movie i was like "wtf nobody could ever be like this right?" i mean i regularly consume porn but somehow i never stoped to be able to separate porn from real live or even love.

i pesonally feel like i have benefitet from it a lot, cause porn taught me how to please a girl plus it gave me the stamina to not just cum in a few seconds when i had my first sex so i see it largely positively and don´t think the negative effects hit most of us.

[MaxxiBonn]

She's not trying to ban porn, she's just stating the negatives.
And it's all true.
If you can control yourself and you believe you're still attracted to real-life women or your girl is still happy with you, there's no problem.
Why are men so defensive of porn? Like, seriously. Nobody's going to come crashing through your window to take your iPhone away.

[myTake Owner]

Thank you.

[hospitable_pepperoni]

#5 was really interesting. I'd never really thought about it but it makes sense. That's happened to a lot of my friends actually.

[myTake Owner]

Porn addiction is a very serious issue, but no one will admit to it and get help.

[sovetskii13]

#5 may be a good thing for men. If the man needs more penetration and pleasure (physical and emotional) to enjoy sex then he will last longer. And that is a plus for women. I agree with the rest.

[PrincessPie]

I agree with all of this.. its fine for people to watch porn if thats what gets them off.. but nothing you have said is incorrect.

[1truekhaleesi]

Finally get to use this quote from Dr. Cox.

[Dez22]

My boyfriend doesn't watch as much porn as I do, he says I'm addicted, maybe I am, i'm not sure

And this isn't me speaking for all porn addicts but, I don't care if i'm addicted because it doesn't affect my life to the point where I'm porn ALL DAY. I watch porn at least hour a day for the past 3-4 years? I've watched the same types of porn for years even the same videos sometimes, so I don't have the concept of "newness" with the exception of some soft BDSM which came a couple years ago I admit.

I don't have high expectations because I can separate fantasy from reality, And I love messing around with my boyfriend more than porn, i only watch porn because he's not there with me to give me gratification. And he loves to try porn inspired ideas... it's great really in my opinion. It's not all that bad unless it affects your daily life to the point where you can't get anything done.

[myTake Owner]

Thank you for your response. Yeah watching porn isn't bad as long as it doesn't affect your life. I myself watch porn as well.

[sawno]

Alright, propeganda debunking time because this only applies to guys with addictive personalities.

So, from experiance shall we? :
1. This applies very well to the fantasies i have and the videos i watch. But does it apply to people? Ask yourself this. Your favorite movie, how many times per week can you watch it for it still to be fun? Imagine only watching that movie for the rest of your life and it being the only movie you will ever watch. How fun will it be then? Wouldn't be so fun would it? After all you know exactly how it goes. If i compare that to spending time with close friends and people i love it doesn't apply at all, because that experience is constantly adapting and often brings something new. A guy might like blowjob videos, but the same one gets boring quickly. Just like the same technique might be boring to him, but if his girl mixes it up and tries out new things from time to time i don't see an issue here. After all we often watch porn for the fantasy not the girl.

2. I can raise my hand on this one. Because of my parents giving me a lot of digital freedom and me being an IT geek i got confronted with porn (Images, video ads where to expensive back then) at the age of 6 and up. I thought people found naked women pretty to look at but it didn't interest me so i clicked away. Around the age of 12 i also discovered masturbation and started to understand what i had seen all these years. From that moment i started watching it. Yet, my expectations of sex i drew from multiple sources. Love stories, educational pages, porn, experiances from others, sites like this. And when you mix all of this together, you end up with something very realistic.

3. Doesn't surprice me, addicted brains look like addicted brains. So if you have a gambling addiction it would probably be the same. If you have an addiction to petting cats it would still be the same. This statement doesn't add anything.

4. Addicts feel unhappy. I can get behind that, addiction is never positive. Yet most people aren't addicted simply by watching porn.

5. This one is very true, if i overdo it i get desentensized. Easily fixed by waiting 1 or 2 weeks (After all i am not addicted like we established before).

6. No, it doesn't work that way. Otherwise we'd be looking for the same porn star every time. This one contradicts your previous addiction statement as its supposed to make you fall in love, not get addicted to an image.

[sawno]

7. Back to addiction again? C'mon, you already mentioned this multiple times by now. Sure if you have an addictive personality and are vunerable to sex addiction i am sure it can happen quickly. But like i said before, most people aren't vunerable to this. 8. I really doubt this applies to most, i think most healthy thinking man even when exposed a lot to porn would still preffer the real thing with the girl they love. Infact porn is most often a filler for when they are single or when she's not around. I much rather act out a fantasy with my girlfriend then to stroke to a fantasy displayed on the screen. So all in all i find this a poor mytake, it doesn't convey a realistic image and just screams anti porn propeganda.

[myTake Owner]

Thank you for agreeing with all my points.

[sawno]

I did? o. O

[myTake Owner]

Read the Take, then read your response over, and you'll see.

[slatyb]

Same old same old. Porn has been around since we learned to draw in the sand with a stick. And some people have always said that it would ruin humanity. They said the same thing about every new kind of music: ragtime, and jazz, swing, rock and roll, hip hop, etc. And every new form of dance too. And we're still here and people still go to school and work and get married and have sex and children. Even people who watch a lot of porn. Porn is about as addictive as video games, or televised sports.

[Cosytoasty]

Hmm this sounds like it was written by someone deeply religious. Points 6 & 7 are credible at least. I agree, when porn is taking up hours of the day and stopping you from living a normal productive life, it becomes a problem.

How is number 8 (having high expectations) ever a bad thing? p though!

[myTake Owner]

Smh!

[Eternallylucky]

There's good and bad porn. I think it's weird that guys find animated manga porn appealing and masturbated to it.

Amateur porn is much more real than fake acting porn though.

[Ben_Dover]

I started watching at around 10 because I wanted to know where babies came. So I was reading this science book and it said what happens but I didn't know what it looked like so I looked it up on a different Apple ID on a different browser with the device being constantly charged so no battery usage can give me away and from there on it began. (I'm not addicted but I watch it like once a day)

[cth96190]

I see the points as a commentary, rather that a description of a problem.
For the past 60 years angry hateful women have told men that men were the source of all evil.
Women have sought to invade all male spaces so that they could Thought Police everything that men said to each other.
Feminist thinkers have said things such as:
1. Kill all men. (Valerie Solanas)
2. All sex is rape. (Andrea Dworkin)
3. A woman needs a man in the way that a fish needs a bicycle. (Gloria Steinem)
Then there were the hashtags #killallmen and #maletears, among others, which have been retweeted by tens of millions of women. The number of retweets show a rabid, murderous, female hatred of men is not confined to a small number of women on a lunatic fringe.
Divorce law has been rewritten for the specific purpose of destroying men financially and psychologically.
Outside of marriage, every time that a man puts his penis inside a woman he risks a false rape allegation and a lifetime of child-support payments.
Normal male interest in women is being criminalised. In Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire, in England, laws have been passed that make it a criminal offence for a man to approach a woman, if, after the event, the woman decides that she did not like the way in which she was approached. You can be certain that those are beta tests of laws that Feminists want imposed throughout the Western World.
In education, changes to curriculum and pedagogy favour the way that girls learn and discriminate actively against boys. When boys behave in a normal way, female educators have the boys force-fed drugs that turn them into zombies and brain damage them for life.
In both tertiary education and employment, men (especially white men) are discriminated against via sex and racial hiring quotas.
If a male university student is accused of rape by a female student, his education, future and, therefore, life are over. No evidence is required by the Star Chamber of academics who will work on the basis that women never lie and men were born guilty.
All of the above and much more. . . yet some people, such as Ms Anonymous, appear to be unaware (or be in denial) of the reasons why a significant and increasing number of men of all ages prefer to jerk out a load while watching pornography.
Women, as a collective, have made themselves too legally dangerous, as well as too angry and insane, for interaction with them to survive a rational cost/risk/benefit assessment.

[independentman]

I think there are some good woman too, even though they are fewer then the rest

[Browneye57]

Excellent. The younger generation is just not getting this cuz it's so pervasive and accessible on every electronic device they have.

It ruins a normal man-woman romantic relationship.

[cth96190]

That an increasing number of boys and men are beginning to prefer jerking off with the help of pornography to sex with a woman, says more about what modern Western women have become than it does about the supposed evils of pornography.

[Browneye57]

@cth96190 Naw, they're still DTF. Just not with you. Develop yourself as a man, and gain some game.

[cth96190]

@Browneye57 One of the differences between us is that you think that women have something to offer and that a relationship with a female is a good thing. I have a different view, which was formed as a result of a lot of pain and cost, not all of which was monetary. I gave up trying to 'get' women almost 30 years ago, because, while on paper I should have had everything that females wanted, I could almost not get a date. Within a couple of years of going MGTOW, before there was a name for it, I was attracting female attention fairly frequently. Women still hit on me, flirt, do the whole mating dance and, sometimes, proposition me for sex. I am simply no longer interested. When a woman does the mating dance in front of me what I see is a former carousel rider who would not have given me the time of day when she and I were 20. I have gone from TFL to MGTOW monk, because I did a rational cost/risk/benefit assessment. . . and women, as a collective, failed the test.

[Browneye57]

@cth96190 I understand. At the same time I don't think it's a reasonable nor workable option for the twenty-somethings. They're still interesting in trying their hand at a real man-woman romantic relationship. And jerking off to porn is a show-stopper in my opinion. That is what this 'take is about.

[TomBradysJersey]

#4 is true for me

[FýrdracaDócincel]

A lot of these are true.
But you can't possibly tell me that the whole "unrealistic expectations" thing can't be applied in reverse to young girls with regards to all the teen romance movies and television shows.

[myTake Owner]

That's true

[Iraqveteran666]

9. Porn and masturbstion desensitizes normal sexual responses mentally and physically making it difficult to orgasm, get and stay aroused except by manual self stimulation or porn. This also happens to women too.
Porn in masturbation is responsible for most sexual dysfunction in teens and twenty year olds.

[dolemite68]

agreed, watching porn on ocassion with an SO is chill but watching it by yourself religiously is creepy

[candyaurora]

A very good Take.

[CHRIS11796]

Porn can definitely ruin a guy's confidence and make it harder to talk to real women. It's the new addiction for a lot of people.

[independentman]

Why is that?

[zagor]

Yeah, but porn never gets a headache, orders an expensive dinner or badmouths you to it's friends.

Love that last pic LOL.

[JustCallMeLeon]

Meh. I prefer 2 player mode.