Hey, I’ve been wondering if there are healthy ways of using porn? And if extreme porn consumption hits harder when you’re a teenager? Cause of the hormones and all.
Yes, i think all porn usage is addictive and unhealthy. Also yes, extreme porn consumption hits harder when you're a teenager.
Do you really want to believe that watching others women genitalia can be healthy in any way for your brain and visuals? Stick with one woman you deeply in love with, that's healthy.
I agree with @4DCreator .. You won't achieve anything useful or healthy from watching other couples having sex
Hello there, I'm new to this forum and thought I'd put in my 2 cents. I must admit I think I'm a better sex partner for my wife because of some of the porn I've watched. I'm not 100% sure on this, but you can learn technique by watching others. Of course there are also down sides because of the addictive nature of porn. I've been thinking perhaps the best way to watch porn is to do it with your partner, not alone, and only once in a while. My wife can enjoy porn if she is horny, and if it is tasteful. Just like how 95% of pop music is crap, there is that 5% that is good quality. Anyways, I may be wrong, but I think there may be room for exploring erotic material with an intimate partner. I think that is a very different thing than doing it alone, as an escape.
Yeah, there’s that, the problem starts when the porn you watch gets to your head and sometimes it isn’t necessarily things youvwoulf enjoy, all porn aroused me in different scales and it started to make me anxious and doubt who i am.
Well, internet porn can definitely be a dark rabbit hole, because the click-bait nature of it. And just like many drugs it seems that to get the same dopamine (or whatever it is) rush requires more and more extreme stuff until you find yourself in front of images that normally you would be repulsed by. That is certainly the worst aspect of it. Some of it is real evil shit.
Yep, thats certanly my problem, At least im still aroused by real girls, and not guys or, (uhh disgusting) animals
Though I don't completely agree that Porn is addictive, what I do believe is that it's harmful, unhealthy, and abnormal. My answer would be no, though my perspective may have been skewed by the fact that I spent a lot of years using it to (attempt) escape from reality.
My experience has been that porn use has gotten worse as I have aged. (1) porn has become "better" with technology and booming industry (2) lower hormones means more porn is required to PMO (3) porn become boring so escalation to more interesting porn becomes necessary
Porn is only addictive to a person which has an addictive personality, that means emotional deprivation or emotional abuse in the early childhood. Emotionally healthy people are usually not becoming addictive.
So having Ocd and an obsessive personality can make porn consumption addictive? That would make sense, but after sometime watching porn everyday throughout a year the usage became more sporadic is it normal to be like this
Hmmm. I can only speak from my own experience. I'm 52. I first started PMOing when I was in college. The sex drive was much stronger, but the process of PMO took less time. There were only magazines back then, and they were pretty expensive (and embarrassing to buy). My sex drive today is nearly gone, but PMO has become a lot worse for me. There is so much porn and p-sub available for free, and it takes so much more time and effort invested in PMO to experience any thrill today. Basically though, I think teenagers shouldn't count on the PMO problem going away in a few years like it's an adolescent problem. I don't know what the answer is though.
So, the hormones are what cause me to be more sexually responsive to different visual stimuli not necessarily the PMOing?
You can ask the same question about smoking or cocaine. Is all usage of cocaine addictive and unhealthy? Is smoking addictive and unhealthy? Yes, to me they both are. Even alcohol is addictive and unhealthy, but luckily i've never been into it. The problem is, are you in risk to get addicted from one of this substances? If you're a risky person, you have your answer. And if someone is on this forum, yes, porn is absolutely addictive in all forms.