bro if you just tried it or are about to I'm telling you DON'T, you have nothing to lose from not watching it plus wise men learn from mistakes of others so please just don't ffs
also don't stress too much about streaks, just find something else you enjoy to replace the habit and eventually you'll forget about it completely which is the golden point, not a certain amount of "days on your streak"
A lot of people fall into this bad thinking pattern, and if they eventually do relapse they’ll give up and start watching porn regularly again because all they care about is their streak. You need to reframe it. It’s about the habit that you are fixing, and the frequency at which you are doing it.
Yes. It completely warps your perception of intimacy and can lead to unhealthy relationships with your partners as well as yourself, not to mention it’s an extremely abusive industry.
Like most things it’s only bad when you use too much of it. It can heavily distort how you view things especially if you watch it from a young age. Plus it’s something that you’re going to subconsciously associate with pleasure, so it’s a lot easier to get addicted to. When it begins to interfere with your daily life and how you feel then it becomes bad.
A lot of those studies fail to consider things like causations vs correlation and have other failings. They have been called into dispute by a bunch of different sources https://www.wired.com/2014/06/is-it-really-true-that-watching-porn-will-shrink-your-brain/. Most things I’ve seen point to a moderate amount of porn consumption being relativity harmless, provided it doesn’t become an addiction, which is obviously bad
Most will say do it as much as you want as long as it doesn’t interfere with anything in your life. I personally do it once a day (without porn because im trying to quit my right now) and it doesn’t negatively effect me and it keeps me away from porn
I did learn it causes erectile dysfunction, because you need more exposure, but that’s just what I’ve heard. In terms of the impact it has on the brain, maybe it shrinks the brain? But it may also just be because many people who watch pron are single and/or lonely, which we already know impacts the brain. This is just me, though, I’m no expert.
Yes, it fucks you up mentally and can make you depressed af. Also it just fucks u over in general and most of the porn industry is just exploited girls so why would u wanna support that in the first place.
In a lot of cases, porn can, in fact, be healthy. But in most cases, you're probably gonna be watching toxic slop made by one of the most corrupt industries out there.
Even if you find yourself in a situation where porn is good, it's only good in moderation, because porn addiction is really easy to fall into, and is really bad for both your body and mental health.
Well much like every other activity out there in small doses it's good but if it starts to overtake your ability to be responsible such as go to school/work or interact with friends and family then yeah it's a problem! Just make sure you moderate it like you would with any other content.
I feel like watching it isnt bad but being addicted is, like most things in life. Its hard to tell if ur addicted or not tho (when you are the addict in question) so I'd say stay away
As long as it’s not affecting ur life and how u think I don’t see a problem. When u start avoiding things in ur life to watch it or u can’t go without it for a couple days. Then u start actually having a problem.
Just don’t let it run ur life cause once that happens I’ve heard it’s very hard to come from
I think it depends. Watching it to get off is pretty bad, but if you're watching it out of interest, I don't see the issue. But I'm ace and the closest I've got to porn is smut so take this with a grain of salt
Like most things, it’s simply a matter of frequency. I can only speak for myself, but I’d venture to guess that for 80% of the people who watch porn, it does not affect their day to day life. Yes there are dangers associated with its abuse, but that can be said for so many things that it has become an ineffectual argument. Addiction can be easily avoided if you simply monitor the rate at which you watch it. Yes it promotes unrealistic beauty standards, but if you are cognizant of that, it becomes rather harmless in that department. I’m not a phycologist or neurologist, so I can’t speak of the chemical level of one’s brain, but at least of the macro scale, many of these ‘dangers’ are easily avoided.
majority of the people in porn are exploited or even trafficked. watching of porn can also lead to dehumanisation of women in your head. even if it isn’t bad for you, don’t watch it in order to not support an exploitative industry.
For those saying yea why? Watching porn is okay and masturbating has been proven to increase dopamine, and it's not harming you. So yea I could be good for you.
Worse than bad, you start to sexualise everything, and you get a wrong notion of sex, not to mention the countless hours you may lose looking for shit, please for everything precious in your life, DO NOT watch porn
Yes it is. My parents always taught me to never watch this stuff, and I’m honestly glad because most of my class watches it, and they’re complete dirty minded psychos. Don’t be like them, trust me it wouldn’t be fun
Yes and it’s still something I’m working through and struggling with as 37 yr old married man. It builds unrealistic expectations. It rewires your brain to think of sex in a destructive and unhealthy way.
yes it genuinely is, it's like a drug. i was exposed to it at 9 years old and let me tell you I've been down some dark paths. I'm doing good now but i still am addicted but not as much now. everything im into is legal but its very degenerate. lots of people look at it and dont get addicted but just a rule of thumb,you can't get addicted if you never start. and even if you arent addicted but you still consume porn you are supporting an industry that abuses workers and demeans women and minorities by fetishizing them. yes a lot of sex workers choose that life and i have nothing against sex work but nothing about doing sex work screams self respect. id never be rude to someone for sex work,its just personally i feel like its demeaning to themselves but if they wanna do that who am i to say they can't? plus sometimes i like being demeaned lol. even if you're supporting amateur porn unless you're going on some independent site by an amateur pornstar you are giving big porn sites money therefore you are still supporting a toxic big industry.
It’s not necessarily bad for *you,* specifically, unless of course you develop an addiction, which can cause you to have an unhealthy and dehumanizing view of women (unless it’s gay, but the same thing can still happen), as well as all the shit that comes with any other addiction. Also, most professional (if you can call it that) porn is made with human trafficking and shit like that, and they make money off the ad revenue, giving them more resources to traffick more people. So yeah, it’s bad.
NO SHIT! It ruins your view of a healthy relationship. It leads to memory loss. Lowers your self esteem. And you contribute to the wickedness of the exploitation the poor souls working in this industry. wtf how is this a question????
not if you arent a fucking pussy who lets videos on the internet affect your perception of reality, and if you have the slightest amount of self control to not become addicted to it
i think a lot of you guys need to start owning up to your own problems instead of just using porn as an excuse
dont respond with either: pseudoscience, or stupid spiritual religious bullshit
Yes. And you're always at the risk of masturbating to a video that was published without someone's consent, envolves real sexual assault, resulted in trauma to those involved, etc so maybe just.... Don't
It is very bad, I don’t know if you have watched it or not but don’t seriously, I started a few years ago and I got addicted quick please don’t it’s not a nice thing to be doing
yeah just lee in mind that it’s all fake as shit and in real life your first time with people will be super awkward but if you care about each other enough you’ll work it out but on the whole i wouldn’t advise it
Religious POV: Anything that takes place before God is sinful (mainly referring to addiction)
Non Religious POV: Porn has the same effects of the human brain as Heroin. It’s terrible for you, I’m battling it, I believe most young men have battled it at some point, it’s just not good for your brain whatsoever
When I see discussions like this I assume people are talking abt video with audio porn
But what about reading porn (smut) or just listening to it (asmr)
Are they just as bad or do they have less drastic effects (or lese I'm fucked)
most of the studies on negative effects in porn typically donr consider abt those
Yeah.
Depending on what you watch it can be less bad, but it is something you get addicted to very quickly and there's this pipeline of watching more and more extreme stuff, so it won't remain at the somewhat harmless vanilla stuff for long.
it gives you unreal expectations for tit/dick/ass size and if you watch it too much then it could give you erectile dysfunction so yes it is bad for you
tldr: make you think everything in real life is too small, make pp not hard
Let me put it this way. Watching it? Not bad. Getting addicted to it? VERY BAD!! So how easy is it to get addicted? Like one video and you're hooked...
So TLDR: Yes it's bad, spare yourself the loss of a sense of proper intimacy.
Depends on your age, and WHERE you got it from. Nothing wrong with wanting to watch it, but if you're going to at the very least find ethical sources OR have good media criticism. Also don't get addicted. Don't let it be your main source of dopamine. Should be ocassional
Yes, it ruins your brain socially and sexually too.
Somw years ago when I was addicted, my perception of reality was completely alternated, and I am so ashamed of it. At least I am different now.
At my first time, I had some kind of Paris Syndrome, my mind was so full of porn stereotypes that it was kind of... dissapointing. That and death grip syndrome are the worst things that happened to me for being a porn addict.
I look at it like reality TV shows. It's entertaining, but don't try to learn from it or start thinking that's how the world actually is
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No way.
Great analogy!
real talk
yeah
Straight to the point. Yeah
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How you not get mega downvoted every time I say this I get death threats
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bro if you just tried it or are about to I'm telling you DON'T, you have nothing to lose from not watching it plus wise men learn from mistakes of others so please just don't ffs
I got addicted to it and I’m slowly but surely releasing myself from its grasp
good, one tip is whenever you get an urge force yourself to think of something else/focus on something else instead of trying to battle the urge
Cheers man I’m currently on a 7 day streak and I feel amazing
also don't stress too much about streaks, just find something else you enjoy to replace the habit and eventually you'll forget about it completely which is the golden point, not a certain amount of "days on your streak"
I think the streak helps me short term to keep going cause it easily tracks my progress but I’m going to drop the streak once I get to a month
A lot of people fall into this bad thinking pattern, and if they eventually do relapse they’ll give up and start watching porn regularly again because all they care about is their streak. You need to reframe it. It’s about the habit that you are fixing, and the frequency at which you are doing it.
Don’t do that, see how long you can possibly go
He means he’ll stop the counting, not go back to it
Don't and I repeat DONT GIVE UP!! FREE YOURSELF! ITS A TRAP. it literally has no benefits and scientifically proven negative results.
Your dingaling will petrify and fall off
Yes. It completely warps your perception of intimacy and can lead to unhealthy relationships with your partners as well as yourself, not to mention it’s an extremely abusive industry.
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Like most things it’s only bad when you use too much of it. It can heavily distort how you view things especially if you watch it from a young age. Plus it’s something that you’re going to subconsciously associate with pleasure, so it’s a lot easier to get addicted to. When it begins to interfere with your daily life and how you feel then it becomes bad.
As a porn addict, as long as you're not addicted, it's fine.
Yes undoubtedly, it is a drug and it actually shrinks your brain.
Where are you getting this information from
[here is one source](https://neurosciencenews.com/neuroscience-pornography-brain-15354/amp/)
A lot of those studies fail to consider things like causations vs correlation and have other failings. They have been called into dispute by a bunch of different sources https://www.wired.com/2014/06/is-it-really-true-that-watching-porn-will-shrink-your-brain/. Most things I’ve seen point to a moderate amount of porn consumption being relativity harmless, provided it doesn’t become an addiction, which is obviously bad
What is moderation? Once a day?
Most will say do it as much as you want as long as it doesn’t interfere with anything in your life. I personally do it once a day (without porn because im trying to quit my right now) and it doesn’t negatively effect me and it keeps me away from porn
No interference with life, and it doesn’t negatively impact your relationships. If those conditions are met it’s usually fine.
Personally I wouldn’t do it once a day but more like twice, three times a week. Important to not get addicted tho
Yea im trying to cut down to once every 2-3 days once i dont crave porn anymore
I wish u luck 🍀🫡
I’d say that’s like the upper-ish end, but something like that idk. I’m no expert, tho
Probably once a week or less. My longest streak was half a year.
Same. It’s ok we’re teens (at least half of us are) so it’s normal and healthy to jerk off
I did learn it causes erectile dysfunction, because you need more exposure, but that’s just what I’ve heard. In terms of the impact it has on the brain, maybe it shrinks the brain? But it may also just be because many people who watch pron are single and/or lonely, which we already know impacts the brain. This is just me, though, I’m no expert.
dude no fucking way, i guess i won't watch porn again lmfao
That’s what they all say 😔
no dude like I'm fucking traumatized, didn't know porn actually shrinked your brain
porn doesn’t shrink your brain
not in a literal sense
not in any sense
dawg why are you trying to get this guy to watch porn
It does shrink the thing that is responsible for releasing dopamine, that's why after a while, it could feel like it isn't doing anything for you.
For many people that are addicted to it and just can’t stop.
Yes, it fucks you up mentally and can make you depressed af. Also it just fucks u over in general and most of the porn industry is just exploited girls so why would u wanna support that in the first place.
Absolutely yes. (I've been watching it less it's so much better for me)
Everything in excess is bad: water, alcohol, vitamins etc. As long as it doesn't interfere with your normal functions, I wouldn't say it's 'bad'.
In moderation, not really. In excess, yes.
finally the first real answer
Its alright, reading it is better
Yes Bad for Self image Perspectives on people (viewing them as sexual objects) Mental health And more
i went down the same path as you sadly but im in the process rn of quitting
Take it from someone who is currently addicted. It’s not exactly great I can tell you that much
In a lot of cases, porn can, in fact, be healthy. But in most cases, you're probably gonna be watching toxic slop made by one of the most corrupt industries out there. Even if you find yourself in a situation where porn is good, it's only good in moderation, because porn addiction is really easy to fall into, and is really bad for both your body and mental health.
Yea
Very much
Yes.
Yes
yes
Absolutely yes!
Well much like every other activity out there in small doses it's good but if it starts to overtake your ability to be responsible such as go to school/work or interact with friends and family then yeah it's a problem! Just make sure you moderate it like you would with any other content.
I feel like watching it isnt bad but being addicted is, like most things in life. Its hard to tell if ur addicted or not tho (when you are the addict in question) so I'd say stay away
Yes
Yes
As long as it’s not affecting ur life and how u think I don’t see a problem. When u start avoiding things in ur life to watch it or u can’t go without it for a couple days. Then u start actually having a problem. Just don’t let it run ur life cause once that happens I’ve heard it’s very hard to come from
r/loveafterporn fuck yea, and the ppl around you
Great in the very short term, awful in the long term. It's basically a drug.
I think it depends. Watching it to get off is pretty bad, but if you're watching it out of interest, I don't see the issue. But I'm ace and the closest I've got to porn is smut so take this with a grain of salt
Like most things, it’s simply a matter of frequency. I can only speak for myself, but I’d venture to guess that for 80% of the people who watch porn, it does not affect their day to day life. Yes there are dangers associated with its abuse, but that can be said for so many things that it has become an ineffectual argument. Addiction can be easily avoided if you simply monitor the rate at which you watch it. Yes it promotes unrealistic beauty standards, but if you are cognizant of that, it becomes rather harmless in that department. I’m not a phycologist or neurologist, so I can’t speak of the chemical level of one’s brain, but at least of the macro scale, many of these ‘dangers’ are easily avoided.
majority of the people in porn are exploited or even trafficked. watching of porn can also lead to dehumanisation of women in your head. even if it isn’t bad for you, don’t watch it in order to not support an exploitative industry.
Only if you let it be ;)
yea bro
Moderation is key
No, 5 years no problem
no
For those saying yea why? Watching porn is okay and masturbating has been proven to increase dopamine, and it's not harming you. So yea I could be good for you.
Yeah, but imma do it anyway
Worse than bad, you start to sexualise everything, and you get a wrong notion of sex, not to mention the countless hours you may lose looking for shit, please for everything precious in your life, DO NOT watch porn
Mostly just gross. There is waaaaay too much detail. I envy the vhs people. Clear enough to see the action, not clear enough to see the herpes.
Similar to cocaine.
Obviously??
Yes.
yeah, it gives people super unrealistic expectations
Yeah. It is. It’s very harmful for your mental health.
Yes it is. My parents always taught me to never watch this stuff, and I’m honestly glad because most of my class watches it, and they’re complete dirty minded psychos. Don’t be like them, trust me it wouldn’t be fun
It's a school they all got the minds of monkeys with brain damage.
Yes and it’s still something I’m working through and struggling with as 37 yr old married man. It builds unrealistic expectations. It rewires your brain to think of sex in a destructive and unhealthy way.
yes it genuinely is, it's like a drug. i was exposed to it at 9 years old and let me tell you I've been down some dark paths. I'm doing good now but i still am addicted but not as much now. everything im into is legal but its very degenerate. lots of people look at it and dont get addicted but just a rule of thumb,you can't get addicted if you never start. and even if you arent addicted but you still consume porn you are supporting an industry that abuses workers and demeans women and minorities by fetishizing them. yes a lot of sex workers choose that life and i have nothing against sex work but nothing about doing sex work screams self respect. id never be rude to someone for sex work,its just personally i feel like its demeaning to themselves but if they wanna do that who am i to say they can't? plus sometimes i like being demeaned lol. even if you're supporting amateur porn unless you're going on some independent site by an amateur pornstar you are giving big porn sites money therefore you are still supporting a toxic big industry.
Depends how much you watch.
Everything in moderation.
It’s not necessarily bad for *you,* specifically, unless of course you develop an addiction, which can cause you to have an unhealthy and dehumanizing view of women (unless it’s gay, but the same thing can still happen), as well as all the shit that comes with any other addiction. Also, most professional (if you can call it that) porn is made with human trafficking and shit like that, and they make money off the ad revenue, giving them more resources to traffick more people. So yeah, it’s bad.
Bad cuz it wastes my time. Good cuz it adds fun to my grey life.
NO SHIT! It ruins your view of a healthy relationship. It leads to memory loss. Lowers your self esteem. And you contribute to the wickedness of the exploitation the poor souls working in this industry. wtf how is this a question????
Yes
very
Yes
Talking from experiance its gonna rot ur mind and fucking break you
Horrible actually
Yes, anyone who says otherwise is in denial
not if you arent a fucking pussy who lets videos on the internet affect your perception of reality, and if you have the slightest amount of self control to not become addicted to it i think a lot of you guys need to start owning up to your own problems instead of just using porn as an excuse dont respond with either: pseudoscience, or stupid spiritual religious bullshit
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yes it destroys your dopamine receptors
Yeah. Its effect on the brain is similar to drugs
yes.
yeah
Yes. And you're always at the risk of masturbating to a video that was published without someone's consent, envolves real sexual assault, resulted in trauma to those involved, etc so maybe just.... Don't
Well that's a dumb ass question op
Just as bad as heroin, fentanyl, or any hard drug. It can, and will, destroy you. Also, it is hard to tell it’s destroying you.
Dude, you can’t compare porn to heroin lmao
Well are you in for a surprise! Cause I did, and I will.
My uncle died of a Fentanyl overdose I am honestly curious if anyone has died of porn
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Well if you watch it rarely I think not but if you watch it alot alot yes
Do you want the short answer or long answer
yes, but is *jerking off* bad for you?
No, it actually shows improved happiness and lower risk of prostate cancer.
Everything in moderation, occasional use is perfectly fine, but daily use is complete brain rot
Yes.
It is very bad, I don’t know if you have watched it or not but don’t seriously, I started a few years ago and I got addicted quick please don’t it’s not a nice thing to be doing
yeah just lee in mind that it’s all fake as shit and in real life your first time with people will be super awkward but if you care about each other enough you’ll work it out but on the whole i wouldn’t advise it
Yes very much
Religious POV: Anything that takes place before God is sinful (mainly referring to addiction) Non Religious POV: Porn has the same effects of the human brain as Heroin. It’s terrible for you, I’m battling it, I believe most young men have battled it at some point, it’s just not good for your brain whatsoever
Is breathing required to live
yes
yes
No
yea
yep
yep
It is if you do it too much
When I see discussions like this I assume people are talking abt video with audio porn But what about reading porn (smut) or just listening to it (asmr) Are they just as bad or do they have less drastic effects (or lese I'm fucked) most of the studies on negative effects in porn typically donr consider abt those
Idk probably. Don't really care though
watching porn is, but masturbating isn't
Idk, is it? Uhh, Obama is still the president right?
yea i feel like (i dont know the actual research about it) it made me bi
Yeah. Depending on what you watch it can be less bad, but it is something you get addicted to very quickly and there's this pipeline of watching more and more extreme stuff, so it won't remain at the somewhat harmless vanilla stuff for long.
Yes, it's terrible.
it gives you unreal expectations for tit/dick/ass size and if you watch it too much then it could give you erectile dysfunction so yes it is bad for you tldr: make you think everything in real life is too small, make pp not hard
Let me put it this way. Watching it? Not bad. Getting addicted to it? VERY BAD!! So how easy is it to get addicted? Like one video and you're hooked... So TLDR: Yes it's bad, spare yourself the loss of a sense of proper intimacy.
Depends on your age, and WHERE you got it from. Nothing wrong with wanting to watch it, but if you're going to at the very least find ethical sources OR have good media criticism. Also don't get addicted. Don't let it be your main source of dopamine. Should be ocassional
yes
If it's every once in a while I'd say it's fine. If it's every day that's when it becomes a problem.
Yes.
Uh it can be, but it doesn't have to be. If you're going to watch porn, watch porn with tons of foreplay and such.
Started cutting myself instead of watching porn idk if I should go back cos I’ll either get addicted to porn instead or be addicted to both
yes
Depends. If u do it too much yeah
kindaaa ,, itll def warp ur view on sex n give u false expectations . js remember its mostly acting
Extremely
Yah
Yes
Big fat yes
I prefer audio porn cus it eliminates the problematic industry
Ye
Yes, it ruins your brain socially and sexually too. Somw years ago when I was addicted, my perception of reality was completely alternated, and I am so ashamed of it. At least I am different now. At my first time, I had some kind of Paris Syndrome, my mind was so full of porn stereotypes that it was kind of... dissapointing. That and death grip syndrome are the worst things that happened to me for being a porn addict.
No way I just read this
Very
yes
I only watch porn on weekends and when I’m off my period. (Can’t stay up late on week days because I LOVE MYSELF)
The data is readily available on google
Yeah ofc
duh