Quitting porn...

[LoneKiller]

Men watch porn for one reason, and it's not for it's academy award winning performance. Men can always find a reason to fit masturbation into their daily lives. Porn just makes it easier. Being a recovering addict, which I can relate to and highly respect the strength it takes to do it, should be more important than quitting porn. In all fairness, I've heard of porn addiction as well. Either way, I admire your strength of will and what it takes to give up both.

 

[Felix]

I'm never gonna stop but I limit my porn consumption, like everything else it has to be done in moderation.

 

[Limlim]

Men watch porn for one reason, and it's not for it's academy award winning performance. Men can always find a reason to fit masturbation into their daily lives. Porn just makes it easier. Being a recovering addict, which I can relate to and highly respect the strength it takes to do it, should be more important than quitting porn. In all fairness, I've heard of porn addiction as well. Either way, I admire your strength of will and what it takes to give up both.

You obviously haven't seen Pirates. That movie had such a good plot they actually made a cleaner R rated version without the porn.

(Also Alice in wonderland, an x-rated musical was decent too!)

 

[LeaningIntoTheMuse]

I don't see anything wrong with porn. But it can lead to an unhealthy lifestyle.

That is why it needs to be done in moderation.

 

[grainofrice24]

for me it did! Good Riddance!

 

[Phaedron]

LOL Lim

Meh, on occasion I still look at it but not as much anymore. It gets kind of boring really. It's just the same old thing no matter what position they are in or how many people join. It's just meaningless sex meant to thrill our voyeuristic desires.

meaningless sex for a meaningless world...

Find meaning in the world, then you can quit...

 

[LeaningIntoTheMuse]

Debbie Does Dallas is one of the best movies I've ever seen, and it was a porn!

The original, I mean, not the sequels or the remakes.

 

[Phaedron]

There are those who watch porn and those who make it... which are you? Perhaps I should start a poll: sex or porn, if you had to choose only one...

Reminds me of a story. There was a wife married to a man who always watched porn instead of pleasing her. So one day she cheated on him, filmed it, and he became a cuckold from then on. It pretty much got to where hardcore porn was the only thing doing it for him, just like every other kind of addiction. The wife divorced him and married the other guy and he became a man slave. In the end, he was no longer allowed to touch her. All he ever did was watch.

And thats the thing about porn. YOU are always the guy watching it, and if porn is all you know... well it's a lot harder to have a girlfriend when you've spoiled yourself with a wet hand and a dirty mind.

And its funny. I've met people who consider it sinful to masturbate, and perfectly acceptable to sleep around.

Oh... for those attempting to quit porn, I have one word for you: KUNDALINI. Get heavily into that and porn will never be the same...

 

[Limlim]

Also, bukkake. Get into that and porn will never be the same.
(Do NOT google that)

 

[Mikey193]

Haha this thread is full of lolz

 

[Felix]

There are those who watch porn and those who make it... which are you? Perhaps I should start a poll: sex or porn, if you had to choose only one...

Reminds me of a story. There was a wife married to a man who always watched porn instead of pleasing her. So one day she cheated on him, filmed it, and he became a cuckold from then on. It pretty much got to where hardcore porn was the only thing doing it for him, just like every other kind of addiction. The wife divorced him and married the other guy and he became a man slave. In the end, he was no longer allowed to touch her. All he ever did was watch.

And thats the thing about porn. YOU are always the guy watching it, and if porn is all you know... well it's a lot harder to have a girlfriend when you've spoiled yourself with a wet hand and a dirty mind.

And its funny. I've met people who consider it sinful to masturbate, and perfectly acceptable to sleep around.

Oh... for those attempting to quit porn, I have one word for you: KUNDALINI. Get heavily into that and porn will never be the same...

That's the bad thing with porn, when you overdo it you tend to stay alone masturbating which is a rather limited excuse for sexual satisfaction. Feeding a cereal bar to a starving man.

 

[LeaningIntoTheMuse]

Porn is great for the single man, but bad for relationships.

 

[Mikey193]

I don't watch to much porn. (it's to fake for me) but there's nothing wrong ith watching it lol. Everyone does. It's not like it's harming anyone

 

[LeaningIntoTheMuse]

Well, there IS harmful porn out there. I have seen sites that are really disturbing.

But if you stick to the vanilla stuff, you should be okay. And as long as you accept that most women won't A.) want you to cum in their face, B.) cum down their throat, or C.) do any of the outrageous things that are seen in porn.

 

[Limlim]

.... Some women let you do it on their face >.>

.... and then get mad at you when you call your buddies up on the phone at 3 am to tell them it totally happened.

 

[Mikey193]

Well, there IS harmful porn out there. I have seen sites that are really disturbing.

But if you stick to the vanilla stuff, you should be okay. And as long as you accept that most women won't A.) want you to cum in their face, B.) cum down their throat, or C.) do any of the outrageous things that are seen in porn.

Hey some like to take your load in there mouth

 

[grainofrice24]

I don't watch to much porn. (it's to fake for me) but there's nothing wrong ith watching it lol. Everyone does. It's not like it's harming anyone

That's what I used to think...."hey who cares...it isn't hurting anyone". But it is...you may think it isn't, but it is. Ignoring the fact that a large percentage of porn is exploitative of people in probably the worst way possible...it's harming YOU....the viewer. It's distorting your reality, changing your point of view, making you dismiss love in favor of sex. You may think that you are above it, and maybe you are...but I wasn't. It ruined my life and I wasted far too much time in my life chasing this false sense of satisfaction. I only hope that I don't regret it for the rest of my life...

 

[Mikey193]

I don't watch to much porn. (it's to fake for me) but there's nothing wrong ith watching it lol. Everyone does. It's not like it's harming anyone

That's what I used to think...."hey who cares...it isn't hurting anyone". But it is...you may think it isn't, but it is. Ignoring the fact that a large percentage of porn is exploitative of people in probably the worst way possible...it's harming YOU....the viewer. It's distorting your reality, changing your point of view, making you dismiss love in favor of sex. You may think that you are above it, and maybe you are...but I wasn't. It ruined my life and I wasted far too much time in my life chasing this false sense of satisfaction. I only hope that I don't regret it for the rest of my life...

not really. I'm still a virgin by choice actually passed up sex once or twice. I'm waiting for the right time. So no porn hasn't harmed me.

 

[Limlim]

I don't watch to much porn. (it's to fake for me) but there's nothing wrong ith watching it lol. Everyone does. It's not like it's harming anyone

That's what I used to think...."hey who cares...it isn't hurting anyone". But it is...you may think it isn't, but it is. Ignoring the fact that a large percentage of porn is exploitative of people in probably the worst way possible...it's harming YOU....the viewer. It's distorting your reality, changing your point of view, making you dismiss love in favor of sex. You may think that you are above it, and maybe you are...but I wasn't. It ruined my life and I wasted far too much time in my life chasing this false sense of satisfaction. I only hope that I don't regret it for the rest of my life...

I think you would find a lot of people that disagree, myself included. Well... Maybe, I like to think I'd be the way I am now with regards to love and sex without porn.

That said, what happened with you?

 

[frey12]

Point number 1: Perception of sex.
Porn has become the way we learn about sex since generally the population of the U.S. at least looks at porn before becoming sexually active. As such porn influences how we have sex. The problem with this is porn is generally emotionally and physically abusive.
The problem with this is we think our sex lives are awkward sexual poses and emotional and physical abuse. On top of this males who use porn are trained to gain sexual pleasure without being trained to value of a woman attaining pleasure. So this makes your brain through "training" able to get off sexually without any significant pleasure of your partner. This leads to an unfulfilled sexual relationship as it is only about you getting off and not about sharing the experience with your significant other. As if that wasn't bad enough it also changes your perception of gaining sex with women within our culture. Women see relationships as a gradual progression toward affection, but porn teaches us we can rush right to sexual relationships without issue and this actually influences our dating habits! You can ask women on this forum about that statement trust it is true! This change in behavior actually hurts our chances of successful consistent mating or just mating in general.
So I talked about why the viewing of porn at an early age is bad because it defines how we have sex, and our sexual habits with our partners. Physical and emotional abuse should not be part of a healthy sexual behavior, but can be mistaken for the norm because within our society true intimacy is seen as obscene while porn themes are shown as normal. For those of us who are bad with women this adds another layer of against us by giving us the impression that rushing into a sexual relationship is normal when it really isn't. So these are just some of the reasons i think porn are bad.

I don't watch to much porn. (it's to fake for me) but there's nothing wrong ith watching it lol. Everyone does. It's not like it's harming anyone

That's what I used to think...."hey who cares...it isn't hurting anyone". But it is...you may think it isn't, but it is. Ignoring the fact that a large percentage of porn is exploitative of people in probably the worst way possible...it's harming YOU....the viewer. It's distorting your reality, changing your point of view, making you dismiss love in favor of sex. You may think that you are above it, and maybe you are...but I wasn't. It ruined my life and I wasted far too much time in my life chasing this false sense of satisfaction. I only hope that I don't regret it for the rest of my life...

I think you would find a lot of people that disagree, myself included. Well... Maybe, I like to think I'd be the way I am now with regards to love and sex without porn.

That said, what happened with you?

Whether people agree or disagree doesn't make something un/true or not. Feel free to disagree all you want. You are still wrong empirically. I am just going to state this is a band wagon fallacy. X number of people disagree with OP thus he must be wrong. It's not logically correct.

While OP maybe an extreme exception to how porn effects us. It does effect us in a vastly negative way as my post above the quotes show. My post doesn't state you have to suffer from said effects, but this is what porn trains you for.