What are the effects of pornography in adulthood?

[Sweetener_]

[genericname85]

i have actually conducted a study using survey data of the pairfam (Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics) , which is probably the most representable dataset for european societies.

i have conducted a deep dive into the litterature around this topic and found that specially in the 80s till early 00s, there was a very strong bias in publications that assumed harm without any real reason to do so and then they structured their data in a way that confirmed their bias... you know... the exact opposite of how science is supposed to be done.

tho since the 2010s, there's more and more litterature actually pointing out the positive effects and showing that the negative effects can be mostly attributed to bias.

so there's "one" case in which masturbation can become a problem. and that is when it's a clinical addiction. those people will have severe issues with keeping a relationship, cause they either can't sexually satsify their partner or can't be sexually satisfied by their partners.

in my study, i tried to research the impact of pornography consumption on relationship satisfaction. my end result is, that pornography does not impact a persons satisfaction with their relationship. in fact (since that was a controll variable), pornography consumption didn't even have an impact on general life satisfaction and happiness either.

what i found was highly indicative of the fact that problems in relationships and sexual frustration lead to lower relationship satisfaction and pornography consumption in couples as a consequence.

so the consumption of pornography is not a cause but rather a symptom of relationship problems. and based on that, my educated guess is, that generally, porn is not the cause of negative impacts but rather the consequence of an individual life not going well.

in fairness though, i did not look at people outside of relationships in my study. so i actually just ran a not very representative regression to check what impact porn consumption in singles has on their life satisfaction. and there's no significant correlation there either, as i had just guessed. but as i said, that is just a very crude result. either way, i would not be surprised, if that this result will be stable across the important controll variables.

[Not_Average]

I didn’t realize I was addicted until I first stopped. It was a habit of mine for over a decade. I still feel tempted to watch at times when my girl leaves the house. Been clean for a while now. It will cause me to fantasize about others women instead of my partner. It will get me to pressure her to do things she’s not comfortable with. It can also drain me so that I don’t have enough energy to perform with her. It also caused me to sexualize a lot of women in my day to day life. It’s opening a door that doesn’t need to be opened. Porn has a lot of consequences that people don’t think about.

[Not_Average]

Just came across this video and remembered this question. Allen Parr is great.

https://youtu.be/H5hWSKmbNw8

[Jessica405]

Not knowing how to treat a lady. Assuming girls are just sex machines.

[clampfan101]

I unfortunately have been addicted to it out of loneliness, but I would absolutely never treat a girl anything like a sex machine. Plus I know it’s all fake, so I’d be treating my first real time like a blank slate, knowing that I actually know nothing beyond common sense unless we’ve talked about it together in the past.

[weysally]

laughable, the only one that I can really remember goes like this,
a guy was giving a girl sex and had a big cock, his words were, "don't know why I have such a big dick I only get to use half of it "

[Mark-IV]

Pretty bad, they will slowly desensitise your mind and you’ll develop a specific and an unnatural preference, it’s much much better to have nice fulfilling sex than to watch porn

[grega239]

What if you can t get laid?

[Mark-IV]

Then jack off but not to porn, trust me bro, they’ll really fuck you up down the road

[ohshee]

When you're an adult you are so busy every single day you don't really even think about it it's when you have free time and you come here to gag to start reading all the hot questions is when you start thinking about it and really just because of covid-19 I'm sure all the porn sites. Many many more subscribers and all that kind of crap but in everyday life you don't think about it you don't watch it because you just too busy and that's just for single people if you have a boyfriend or girlfriend you might watch it once a month on the weekend or something but you're too busy with each other even care about watching porn you don't need it when two people are connected that's all you need believe me there is no porn good enough to make a couple want to even watch it when you have each other

[mistixs]

Unrealistic expectations

[JackSmy]

At 16, how do you even know about porn? You are UNDERAGE!

[InfobotLives]

It really depends on your usage of it, the kind of things that you watch, how much you watch and how susceptible you are to being negatively influenced. It will affect different people in different ways. Ted Bundy was of the opinion that it influenced what he became, but then that was just his own analysis. Millions of people watch porn and most do it in moderation and it doesn't affect their lives in any real way. I tend to take the opinion that it won't bring out anything in you that wasn't already there.

[josephinelcajon]

The unrealistic ideas of romance and sex not to mention the abnormal body sizes all abnormal!

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Pornography is not good for one's personal health, it's better to try to use other imaginations if your one into masturbating, I'm trying to live for God and watching
Porn is doing the devils work which God is watching over me and he doesn't like it
I'm a guy who has used porn many times when masturbating, this not even safe for
your computer can carry malware/viruses/spyware / my suggestions is to use your imagination the best you can and lay off of a lot of porn, all it does is mess your mental health and I don't want that to happen

[FunkyMonkee]

Horniness.

[exitseven]

I bet it causes a lot of problems with relationships.

[elizamichale1]

I think its ok to watch it but too much of it can be bad

[DaveToo]

Cum, ejaculation, climax.

[TonyMetal___86]

Obsession with sex!

[kellytheman]

If you watch to much of it some of it might not turn you on no more.

[TheBigGuy9]

Everything becomes numb around you and you need to continually get more and more into it to get off. Just like a drug.

[jasco]

As a ex porn addict, I can say without a doubt that the after affects have change my point of view of women and men in a very negative way. I use to see women as more of a play thing than anything else. As for men I never really saw them as anything other things in my way. After some realization and exposure to other people. I realize that porn and real life are very different. So after some self therapy I was able to become a better person. Still recovering tho but its much better than before.

[007kingifrit]

its not all bad, porn can reduce the urge to cheat through a process called wish fulfillment that makes you less likely to do a bad thing if you fantasize about it

too much porn has all kinds of weird bad effects like damaging your social skills

[Alwayshornyyyyy]

I got worse

[Alwayshornyyyyy]

parade all day everyday below my waist

[Twalli]

It depends on how frequently you watch it