Yes. Porn fills your mind with "sci-fi" sex, where everything goes with a smile and happy ending. There is a lot of nasty genres out there nowadays. The brain is quickly seeking for new trills, due to "habituation" to the regular porn you watch. Then you need novelty and can end up watching weird stuff. Also, when you watch, your brain is getting shots of dopamine...so you become dependent on dopamine...it takes you more, you become habituated.... Too much porn makes your brain focus on sex all the time and people most likely "objectify" women...so every features of nice ladies become a trigger...
What's the purpose of porn? It isn't to sit and think to oneself, "Oh, isn't she lovely. I bet she's smart and has a great personality."
Nah. I know pornstars are a virus to our world. I don't see them as real people. So I can act normal towards regular women.
I am sure you can read about it here somewhere, and that you will get good explanations, but: My suggestion would be that you discover that for yourself. All people are different. In between your abstinence streaks, or before them, experiment. Do edging to see how it feels different from O. Do porn without edging to see how it feels different. Do time without either to see how it feels. Learn to know yourself and to understand your addiction and how it affects you. That will help you reset, I believe.
My point is that the purpose of it is to arouse you and make you fap. Open the door to that and you're defeating yourself.
i've actually put some porn blockers on my web browser. unfortunately things like reddit and imgur don't have settings to hide certain mature things.
Porn still trains your brain to love fantasy instead of pursuing fulfillment with real-life experiences. It leaves me feeling empty and still craving for more, even if it's not as harmful as PMO all together. But if you experiment with it as SystemError suggests, tell us your experiences...
very time consuming and the effects are still the same as pmo: high anxiety, depression, extreme numbness, and the most scary shit: brainfog
I've had brainfog even before i started masturbating. i felt like a ghost; felt like i was walking through anyone who passed me by. it was funky.
It gives you a rush. As Samael Aun Weor says, "sexual pleasure is the legitimate right of the human being." What are you doing to pursue real sexual pleasure and connection with a real-life woman? The cons of watching porn without masturbating are obvious. You will be tempted to MO, and your mind will be full of dirty thoughts. I honestly don't think it's a safe approach for you to take.
I think so. First, porn is designed to arouse. It isn't just a happenstance; it's what it is supposed to do. So I assume you'll be viewing it, in order to get aroused... To what purpose? If you're not going to masturbate, what are you going to do? Sit there and stare at your erection? Enjoy the feeling? I don't know about you, but in that situation, I'm going to want to fap. So, can you honestly say it doesn't make you more likely to do so? But let's skip past that. Porn obviously taps into something deep inside us, and so when you're consuming imagery, your doing it in a way that trips those pleasure-circuits and forms powerful memories. So even without the added, brain-chemical-releasing effect of an orgasm, you're "training" your brain in what it will want and associate with sex. What do you think -- are there things you'll see in a video or in pictures that you might not want coming to mind in other situations? That happened to me when I was consuming porn; images I'd lusted over came to mind in the wrong places, at the wrong time. I've seen folks talk about how those images will come to mind in lovemaking with their spouse; and I've seen folks talk about how they can't seem to rid themselves of the images they once liked. Here's a third bad thing porn does to you. It desensitizes the viewer to the grossness, the bizarre-ness, and the cruelty of porn. Both in what it depicts, and also in what it IS. Porn IS exploitation. The people who work in the industry, who are depicted, are treated badly. In many cases, they are basically slaves. It is a people-consuming business. And when you consume it, you associate yourself with that. Your pleasure comes at their expense. If someone was trying to give up alcohol, would you recommend the person pour a drink in a glass, and stare at it?