This Is Your Brain On Porn

[jimtaylor]

I do agree with the op to a certain point but per my usual stance I don't blame the tool. I believe the issue in the United States goes further than the actual use of porn. Look at nations in Europe that are more open in a healthy way about sex and see the results. Look at Utah Valley, which happens to have the highest porn usage rate per capita and prescription drug abuse. Is it just coincidence that Utah Valley is predominately part of a religious faith that says it is bad to have sex before marriage and that generally any sexual action is wrong?


I have no idea but I think they are correlated and I think the porn abuse is because the United States is dang sexually frustrated. Where I agree with the op is that porn in excess can be a very bad thing, like my habits when going through puberty. Haha. I didn't feel good about myself and the more I looked at porn the more I thought about sex throughout the day causing me to want it more. Again the issue was not the porn but what causes me turn to porn in the first place, sexual frustration.


I wanted sex and couldn't get it so I turned to porn. Honestly the United States as a whole is full of prudes. I am not advocating all of us becoming porn stars but lets start with not being so awkward when talking about sex and advocating the use of condoms. Also lets not preach in school that sex is bad while all the kids are telling eachother that sex is good.


Part of the mental damage of porn is that confusing and contradicting message in regards to sex. How about we try saying sex is a healthy and good thing but let's approach it in the right way. I think we get rid of some of the US's sexual frustration and guilt in terms of sex and suddenly you might see a drop in porn use and then the porn being used would be guilt free.


It's always so easy to blame the tool but issue is what drives people to that tool in the first place.

 

[subwayrider]

[MENTION=6740]Elaf[/MENTION]

It's OK. I remember before I developed Thinking, I used to make all sorts of crazy statements and try to present them as truth... It's weird to me now. Everyone goes through a process.

NFs with no logic are the equivalent of crazies.

 

[dneecey]

[video=youtube;vTD_itXrR6E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTD_itXrR6E&feature=player_embedded[/video]

i believe this is interesting and relevant.

Great thread btw. It appeals to my research approach of all things. (-;

 

[dudemanbro]

[MENTION=4717]subwayrider[/MENTION]

Sorry for the "TMI", but I've got a cringe worthy comment to your comment!

Spoiler

HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE WET DREAMS?

 

[dneecey]

I find the correlation between erectile dysfunction, other neurological issues such as anxiety, and porn addiction very intriguing, especially due to the fact that this is happening to YOUNG men.

 

[Quiet]

I do agree with the op to a certain point but per my usual stance I don't blame the tool. I believe the issue in the United States goes further than the actual use of porn. Look at nations in Europe that are more open in a healthy way about sex and see the results. Look at Utah Valley, which happens to have the highest porn usage rate per capita and prescription drug abuse. Is it just coincidence that Utah Valley is predominately part of a religious faith that says it is bad to have sex before marriage and that generally any sexual action is wrong?


I have no idea but I think they are correlated and I think the porn abuse is because the United States is dang sexually frustrated. Where I agree with the op is that porn in excess can be a very bad thing, like my habits when going through puberty. Haha. I didn't feel good about myself and the more I looked at porn the more I thought about sex throughout the day causing me to want it more. Again the issue was not the porn but what causes me turn to porn in the first place, sexual frustration.


I wanted sex and couldn't get it so I turned to porn. Honestly the United States as a whole is full of prudes. I am not advocating all of us becoming porn stars but lets start with not being so awkward when talking about sex and advocating the use of condoms. Also lets not preach in school that sex is bad while all the kids are telling eachother that sex is good.


Part of the mental damage of porn is that confusing and contradicting message in regards to sex. How about we try saying sex is a healthy and good thing but let's approach it in the right way. I think we get rid of some of the US's sexual frustration and guilt in terms of sex and suddenly you might see a drop in porn use and then the porn being used would be guilt free.


It's always so easy to blame the tool but issue is what drives people to that tool in the first place.

Absolutely agree. This is a great post.

Abuse is always indicative of some form of repression and dysfunctional thinking. It is our cultural beliefs and values in regards to sex, health and gender that create this repression

 

[barbad0s]

I rarely watch it. I find it extremely boring and repetitive for the most part but I guess you might have to pay for the more exciting stuff.

You just need to look harder.

One of my hobbies is daring myself to look up bizarre porn, e.g. girls pooping out eels, people in full body latex suits and rubbing each other with corn on the cob (not joking, I totally found and fapped to this), and BBW, and then challenging myself to try to see if I can get aroused and fap to it.

I think it is up to the individual to decide if they are addicted to something and it is starting to make them uncomfortable and to disrupt their life. Whether it's porn, junk food, marijuana, or any type of thing that is not typically addictive except to those who are susceptible to it.

Having gone through high school so recently, it's amazing the outfits people show up in and how many people are having sex at parties on the weekends. I was conditioned to think it was normal, that's the worst part, that that was how everyone lived, especially by the TV. Once I started college I was able to get away from all that and started developing my own views... but it's incredibly disturbing to me now, now that I know.

Yes, maybe that's how some people in this part of the world are conditioned, but who's to say that's not what's normal? What is "normal"? Isn't high school the age when people's hormones are surging--secondary sex characteristics and the peak of fertility and all that? Wouldn't that mean it's perfectly normal and make perfect sense for people going through puberty to do?

And how do you know that you weren't "conditioned" again to have these new views of yours that you believe you've developed on your own?

 

[subwayrider]

Yes, maybe that's how some people in this part of the world are conditioned, but who's to say that's not what's normal? What is "normal"? Isn't high school the age when people's hormones are surging--secondary sex characteristics and the peak of fertility and all that? Wouldn't that mean it's perfectly normal and make perfect sense for people going through puberty to do?

And how do you know that you weren't "conditioned" again to have these new views of yours that you believe you've developed on your own?

Eh... we're essentially just going around in circles if I attempt to answer that, aren't we? I mean, what is normal is relative and if I'm being conditioned then we're all being conditioned and no one's thinking is their thinking at all. So I can't be thinking what I'm thinking now.

One of those weird paradoxes.

 

[dudemanbro]

I think that a lot of the "soft" porn that is being shown through the media is corrupting the youth, not just the hard stuff. All of the celebrity magazines, movies, television shows. Practically designed to have us give in to the lowest human impulses, this soft porn is encouraging people to feed the egotistical, "reptilian" snake mind, and for all of the short term benefit of masturbating to porn (relaxation, stress reduction), there is long term psychological damage. This is the same with drugs, chasing material gain, and chasing happiness while running from sadness. That's the pattern of the world. A short term gain for long term loss. True love is the substance that only increases in benefit over long periods of time.

Have you accepted Unconditional Love as your Lord and Savior?

 

[Eventhorizon]

I’m reading some of these posts and I have to admit, there are things that when I accidently see them through no fault of my own, mess with my stability. I have seen some crap pop up on the internet doing innocent searches that no one should ever have to see. Seriously. I have an open mind but oh hell…
Thankfully my brain seems to have enough constitution to put these things to the back. I just hope it never makes it into my dreams.
Porn is whatever. I mean seriously, society is practically pushing it on people. You can’t even walk down the street without seeing some amount of what would have been considered porn 100 years ago. This will have the ultimate effect of changing society as we know it far into the future.
It is not that anything is wrong or right, it is that thinking makes it so.

 

[the]

Id be very interested to see what I would have been like had I never "been hooked on porn".

 

[dudemanbro]

I'm just not down with ultra-rich pedophiles is all I'm saying.

 

[the]

I'm just not down with ultra-rich pedophiles is all I'm saying.

whats the upper income level of pedophile that you are cool with?

 

[dudemanbro]

whats the upper income level of pedophile that you are cool with?

Anything above $100,000 / year.

 

[the]

Why do I keep getting pop up adds in this thread?

 

[Eventhorizon]

Why do I keep getting pop up adds in this thread?

Are you getting an Asian wife now too?

 

[Keirouen]

The poll is anonymous.

OK, so I wanted to make this thread for its sheer relevance in our society. First of all, the World Wide Web first became available to the general public in 1991. Internet porn was available from the 1980s, but, of course, much of the public did not have access to it because they did not have access to the internet. It is probable that porn has always been around: in the form of paintings or drawings; in the form of illustrated comic strips; in photographs (think Playboy) after the invention of photography; even in film format as early as the 1910s or 1920s. But it was not until the internet came along and changed, not just porn, but everything, that access to it has become so simple and easy. Therefore, it is my generation that is the guinea pig of sorts to this unintentional and mad social experiment that is the human brain on porn. As a symbolic token of the truth of that statement, I was born in 1991, the year the internet became available for most people.

[MENTION=3791]knight in battle[/MENTION] and I were discussing the possible effects on our society. There seem to be visible trends: divorce rates skyrocketing; teen sex and pregnancy following suit; cheating in relationships in general; and, I've heard tell, many people in relationships losing interest in their partners, preferring to indulge in the millions, if not billions, of bodies available on the internet. However, can all of these effects be said to be rippling from internet porn? It's not clear. However, it is an epidemic, especially among males. The long-term effects cannot be good, as the documentary will argue. Our minds and our bodies, still adapted for life in caveman times, are simply on overload, the stimulus available on the internet is just too much.

So, enjoy and be sure to take notes.

One last thing: I know many of you are, and it's healthy, naturally dubious and skeptical, so sources can be found at http://yourbrainonporn.com/

[video=youtube;TKDFsLi2oBk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKDFsLi2oBk[/video]

Porn is like any other addiction be it a person, alcohol, drugs, sex in general, anime, blogging... It's all about moderation.

Some people can't handle alcohol and become alcoholics. Others can't handle porn. It's a matter of willpower and self control. Indulgence is dangerous. Impresionability is dangerous.

Porn changes neuronal connections. Love changes neuronal connections. Learning to ride a bike changes neuronal connections. Any damn thing you do changes neuronal connections!

The key is being educated on sex and practicing self control

 

[sprinkles]

This forum is a worse influence on me than anything else mentioned in this thread.

 

[DonTaushMe]

I don't like porn, it makes me sad :/
You can tell the woman in it is not enjoying herself
Poor woman

 

[dudemanbro]

Yeh porno is often pretty degrading. The ones I enjoyed the most were the honestly erotic ones, and this only happened very rarely -- and almost exclusively in ameture film. I remember this video of a woman masturbating, and my goodness did she enjoy herself -- you won't find that in the professional stuff, which I avoided like the plague when I was an avid porno consumer. (I think I might still have that video on one of my hard drives somewhere). This a avoidance all started when I got really high and watched the first erotic film i stumbled upon; I said to myself: I cannot watch this, I am horrified! I was naive then and have seen much more disgusting shit than a person needs to ever see in their life. For the excruciatingly rare moment where a porn film was actually BEAUTIFUL, there were probably a literal million horror films, and a million more of slightly less horrifying but equally degrading films. It also sucks that the man's role is literally reduced to his penis -- this perpetuates the rediculpus insecurity of penile size. I stopped comparing my package size back on the school playground, but even people in my age group are obsessed with it in some occasions.

Anyway, towards the end of my porn binges and addictive cycles, I was not getting very much aroused by the ordinary porn film, for I was desensitized. I did crave arousal, but I did not want to watch horrifying things to get that arousal, because it lead to guilt and shame when I did. It was around that time that I found the website yourbrainonporn.com, which confirmed everything that I hade ever suspected about this psuedo-drug.

Life is nicer now, and I feel attracted to ordinary women again (with their clothes on!) Funny thing is, I dreamed earlier last week about a fast-paced, hyperactive "Se-ESTP-type" woman, who was really into freaky bondage stuff, and obviously I was the one being bound hahaha... Oh well, at least I'm getting the erotic dreams again, and they are (mostly) free of over-the-top sexual overtones.

I blame myself of course, but I am saddened that oversexualization is a part of modern western culture, that oversexualization is not recognized by my spell-chcking mechanism, that television is saturated with soft-porn (seriously, I recommend to get rid of your TV ASAP), and that Monarch mind control is so damn terrible (but that is an entirely different realm of concern...)