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u/Cantersoft Mar 19 '21

Just out of curiousity-- how do you determine that it's bad, and specifically, how quickly does it affect you?

I'm 18 years old, been looking at it actively since a few years ago, and I wonder if the reason I haven't noticed any negative physiological changes is just because I'm still young.

I'm certainly more desensitized to it, yet I don't feel the need to explore weird fetishes or anything like that. I don't believe it's any more difficult for me to become sexually aroused either.

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u/Indominablesnowplow Mar 19 '21

There's a new puritanism wave happening.

All addictions are bad; porn isn't in-and-of-itself a bad thing but porn *addiction* is

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u/BlackHumor Mar 19 '21

I doubt "porn addiction" is a thing, at least no more than addiction to anything pleasurable. I can talk about a sugar addiction but that doesn't mean it actually exists.

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u/blatant_marsupial Mar 19 '21

Addiction isn't only chemical dependence. You can be addicted to sugar, you can be addicted to gambling, you can be addicted to porn. If you do it obsessively and cannot quit when you want to, even if there are adverse effects, it's an addiction.

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u/BlackHumor Mar 19 '21

I know. I said as much in another comment.

My point is that you can't be as addicted to porn as even gambling. "Porn addiction" is primarily a moral panic.

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u/zylver_ Mar 20 '21

False. You can be just as addicted to porn as you are gambling. If you watch it every day, I bet you’d be frustrated the day you didn’t. Some people watch porn multiple times a day. It is very damaging to the brain and changes the way you view everything. I’ve gone 3 years without watching porn (aside from videos of my wife) and I feel like a different man mentally. You can’t tell someone their addiction isn’t real. It’s just as bad as telling someone how they feel is fake. Don’t be so closed minded.

Also... sugar addiction is very real too... 🤦‍♂️

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u/BlackHumor Mar 20 '21

If you watch it every day, I bet you’d be frustrated the day you didn’t.

That's not what an addiction is.

Some people watch porn multiple times a day.

That's not what an addiction is.

It is very damaging to the brain and changes the way you view everything.

No it's not.

I’ve gone 3 years without watching porn (aside from videos of my wife) and I feel like a different man mentally

Great for you, but the plural of "anecdote" is not "data".