Does America have a porn problem? (1 Viewer)

[Brony]

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No, we're just a sexually repressed nation. We're awkward and shameful about sex when most of the world isn't.

I agree that our puritanical views can be harmful.

I blame the Puritans.

Immigants! I knew it was them! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them.

 

[McGarnicle]

Working from home is great, but I do miss jacking off in the men's room while on the clock.

 

[NCCommish]

Porn is as addictive as shopping or anything else that stimulates the pleasure centers of the brain. And of course the reality is most people handle both just fine. Not overspending while shopping or overdoing the porn. Let us not conflate a subgroup of people with the overall group.

 

[Jayrod]

Porn is as addictive as shopping or anything else that stimulates the pleasure centers of the brain. And of course the reality is most people handle both just fine. Not overspending while shopping or overdoing the porn. Let us not conflate a subgroup of people with the overall group.

Not exactly. There is a direct physiological link to porn and masturbation that isn't there with things like shopping.

I'll agree it isn't quite to the physical addictions of hard drugs, but it is more addictive than shopping or gambling addicts.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Working from home is great, but I do miss jacking off in the men's room while on the clock.

A better way to close out the workday instead of being seen leaving a few minutes early.

Mornings I save for post coffee dumps, nice in their own way but still #2.

 

[FUBAR]

Question for those who have no problem with porn:

Would you be happy knowing that your son in law watching a lot of porn?

As long as he and my daughter have a healthy sex life that I don't know anything about.....why would I care?

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Psychiatrist Norman Doidge argues that pornography has an actual physiological and psychological effect that makes it addictive. He reports how he noticed many male clients coming to his clinic with sexual problems that affected their relationships. None of these males were loners, or withdrawn from society. All were men in comfortable jobs in normal relationships or marriages. Doidge noticed that these men would report, often in passing, that although they considered their sexual partners attractive, they had increasing difficulty in becoming aroused. Upon further questioning, they admitted that pornography use was leading to less excitement during sex.

Instead of enjoying the act of intercourse, they were forced to fantasize about being part of a porn script in order to become aroused. Many actively asked their partners to act like porn stars, to enact scenarios they had seen on the internet–often scenes that involved violence. When questioned further about their own pornography use, they said that they needed more and more extreme porn in order to reach their previous level of arousal (Doidge, 2007).

Understanding the flood of dopamine explains why pornography changes behavior. From a physiological point of view, the brain is building up a tolerance to material it sees, just like the body builds up tolerance to drugs it uses. This explains why users of pornography report needing increasingly extreme videos in order to become aroused (Doidge, 2007).

In a study done to test the effect of pornography on relationship commitment, the results showed that adults who consumed higher levels of pornography were likely to show decreased commitment to their partners (Lambert, 2012).

A majority of females whose partners regularly consume pornography perceive their partners use to be a threat to the stability of their relationship (Bergner and Bridges, 2002). In addition, the use of pornography increases the likelihood that couples will separate or divorce (Schneider, 2000). Besides increasing the likelihood of ending a relationship, usage of pornography has been linked to decreased satisfaction in a relationship.

In an early experiment, it was found that men who consumed pornography were more dominating and less attentive towards their partners (Zillman and Bryant, 1988). Men self-report finding less pleasure in sex with their partners, even when they don’t report a decrease in level of attractiveness of their partner (Philaretou, 2005). Many say that in order to become fully aroused and orgasm, they must mentally visualize porn scenes they had previously seen (Doidge, 2007).

Men exposed to pornography show an increased likelihood to treat women as though they lack the capacity for complex thinking and reasoning while still treating them as capable of having strong emotional responses (Gray, 2011).

That doesn't exactly pertain to my answer.

Because porn watching can lead to A LOT of porn watching that can lead to things written above.

Even my 14 year old nephew has been watching extreme porn on his iPad for years. The porn I grew up with is nothing like what is available today and there's no doubt that it is twisting minds about what normal sex is.

Seems we also have a parenting problem.

 

[FUBAR]

Porn is as addictive as shopping or anything else that stimulates the pleasure centers of the brain. And of course the reality is most people handle both just fine. Not overspending while shopping or overdoing the porn. Let us not conflate a subgroup of people with the overall group.

Not exactly. There is a direct physiological link to porn and masturbation that isn't there with things like shopping.

I'll agree it isn't quite to the physical addictions of hard drugs, but it is more addictive than shopping or gambling addicts.

I won't disagree but do you have studies to support this?

 

[NCCommish]

Porn is as addictive as shopping or anything else that stimulates the pleasure centers of the brain. And of course the reality is most people handle both just fine. Not overspending while shopping or overdoing the porn. Let us not conflate a subgroup of people with the overall group.

Not exactly. There is a direct physiological link to porn and masturbation that isn't there with things like shopping.

I'll agree it isn't quite to the physical addictions of hard drugs, but it is more addictive than shopping or gambling addicts.

Addiction is addiction. Addicts may pay different costs based on their addiction but at the end of the day there is no difference between a porn addict and food addict or a gambling addict.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I'm convinced the solution to peace in the Middle East is giving those young angry men access to porn.

and some weed to mellow them out.

honestly, same could be said about us. if we weren't so sexually repressed and maybe give everybody a joint we wouldn't be quite as quick to put bullets I each other. we would be too busy cleaning the pipes and watching cartoons.

 

[cstu]

Because porn watching can lead to A LOT of porn watching that can lead to things written above.

Even my 14 year old nephew has been watching extreme porn on his iPad for years. The porn I grew up with is nothing like what is available today and there's no doubt that it is twisting minds about what normal sex is.

Seems we also have a parenting problem.

I won't disagree there but he's not unique in that regard.

 

[sports_fan]

This isn't a very good place to ask this question. To my knowledge no one in FFA looks at porn.

 

[mr fancypants]

No, we're just a sexually repressed nation. We're awkward and shameful about sex when most of the world isn't.

 

[mr fancypants]

No, we're just a sexually repressed nation. We're awkward and shameful about sex when most of the world isn't.

Just saying something and wanting it to be true doesn't make it true.

"Most of the world" is not Western Europe.

Seriously, Have you ever traveled anywhere in South & Central America, Caribbean. Asia or Africa. That is "most of the world" and yes the US is repressed sexually in comparison.

 

[Dippa]

No, we're just a sexually repressed nation. We're awkward and shameful about sex when most of the world isn't.

Yeah, when looking at all of the celeb nudes, all I could think of is how awkward and ashamed of their bodies they were.

 

[McGarnicle]

This isn't a very good place to ask this question. To my knowledge no one in FFA looks at porn.

I did once, accidentally. I went online looking for a new ballcock for my toilet. The results that came back...man, you can't unsee that.

 

[tommyboy]

that's like saying we have a breathing problem

 

[BobbyLayne]

No, we're just a sexually repressed nation. We're awkward and shameful about sex when most of the world isn't.

Oh, I don't know about that. Japan has little sexual repression and distinctly different mores and morals. Asobi seksu ("####### for fun") is perfectly acceptable. Those folks are way more obsessed with porn.

 

[AAABatteries]

Not exactly. There is a direct physiological link to porn and masturbation that isn't there with things like shopping.

You haven't seen my wife shop.

 

[Mr Non Sequitur]

No, we're just a sexually repressed nation. We're awkward and shameful about sex when most of the world isn't.

The Middle East, Asia, and Africa are just sexual hotbeds aren't they?

 

[fred_1_15301]

Not exactly. There is a direct physiological link to porn and masturbation that isn't there with things like shopping.

You haven't seen my wife shop.

That's hot

 

[Jayrod]

No, we're just a sexually repressed nation. We're awkward and shameful about sex when most of the world isn't.

Just saying something and wanting it to be true doesn't make it true.

"Most of the world" is not Western Europe.

Seriously, Have you ever traveled anywhere in South & Central America, Caribbean. Asia or Africa. That is "most of the world" and yes the US is repressed sexually in comparison.

Most of the world is in China, India and the US. And I'm sure you have spent a ton of time vacationing in the heart of Latin countries where Catholicism is the dominant religion with its legendary levels of repression.

 

[Jayrok]

Mornings I save for post coffee dumps, nice in their own way but still #2.

:golfclap:

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

If my wife is having sex with me alot, i dont really watch porn, if she isnt, im watching more porn, simple really

 

[culdeus]

If my wife is having sex with me alot, i dont really watch porn, if she isnt, im watching more porn, simple really

I think this is a great point here. People used to bang their wives a ton more than they do now, they also got married earlier and were getting laid more frequently AND more consistently. Now with women in the workplace and workdays running longer sex with a partner is less a priority.

It shocked me to see just how many guys here were getting laid so infrequently by their wives.

Society is telling men and women that sex is wrong early in their lives, and it's leading to less sex later as that's what you are accustomed to.

I mean some religions still honestly push a no contraception policy in an age where we don't need more humans. It's all connected.

What these people aren't doing studies on now is how the biggest boom in porn are cam to cam sites. This might be more harmful than something you see on the hamp. These are real people that people might be having an "affair" with.

 

[Braktastic]

As we used to say in college, it's only a problem if you're trying to quit.

 

[Politician Spock]

Porn is as addictive as shopping or anything else that stimulates the pleasure centers of the brain. And of course the reality is most people handle both just fine. Not overspending while shopping or overdoing the porn. Let us not conflate a subgroup of people with the overall group.

Not exactly. There is a direct physiological link to porn and masturbation that isn't there with things like shopping.I'll agree it isn't quite to the physical addictions of hard drugs, but it is more addictive than shopping or gambling addicts.

Addiction is addiction. Addicts may pay different costs based on their addiction but at the end of the day there is no difference between a porn addict and food addict or a gambling addict.

Research shows porn addiction is UNLIKELY

 

[jon_mx]

Did yesterday's ruling make gay porn legal?

 

[cstu]

Did yesterday's ruling make gay porn legal?

Where is it illegal?

 

[Rirruto]

Did yesterday's ruling make gay porn legal?

Where is it illegal?

Elementary schools.

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

Did yesterday's ruling make gay porn legal?

Where is it illegal?

Elementary schools.

Good. Kids should at least be in junior high before seeing that in their classrooms.

 

[TheAristocrat]

Working from home is great, but I do miss jacking off in the men's room while on the clock.

Been there, done that. Keep being awesome.