What's Your Take On Porn Sickness/Addiction? - Is it real?

[Judge Dredd]

Whether you call it porn brain, porn addiction, porn sickness, or anything else, the general concept is the same. Watching porn (or adult media of any type) starts a slippery slope that leads to seeking out more and more extreme material until they commit sex crimes in real life. A great example is a MATI Reddit segment where one Redditor's obsession with "do it for state" videos caused him to go insane.

There are also claims of it reducing productivity, motivation, and destroying relationships. There's no shortage of posts and YouTube videos about the topic.

However, the problem is I know people who like porn and are perfectly normal, well adjusted people. Some even work in porn adjacent businesses. like one guy that is a freelance 3D artist that has worked on AAA games that draws porn between contracts. None have gotten more extreme, become a dysfunctional wreck, or tried to do any real life sex crimes.


So what's your take? Is it real? Are porn addicts people with other problems that are blaming porn?

 

[Epic Fail Man]

Porn sickness leads to inceldome, not sex crimes. The whole reason why porn is bad is that it curbs your natural ambition for pussy and makes you a lazy fapping hermit who gets no bitches.

 

[dvnc]

My take on it? I had never heard of this new buzzword until this Forum and that I think the ones that decry it the loudest are the ones jerking to it endlessly and not able to get a woman, or are not being properly taken care of. The ones you mentioned being completely normal people are the majority.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

"Everything in moderation, including moderation."
- Irish sodomite poet

 

[Open-Source Dodonpachi]

Imagine fapping when a girl gets railed. What a cuck. Imagine fapping to weird japanese pictures made by creeps. What a weirdo. Imagine wasting your time beating it for a bit of pleasure, when later you will feel like shit no matter how much showers you take. Nah. Control yourself, get a chick, get friends, go get a job, go get some hobbies, make some money. idk.

 

[Bargain Bin Laden]

Watching porn (or adult media of any type) starts a slippery slope that leads to seeking out more and more extreme material until they commit sex crimes in real life.

I started committing sex crimes before I even knew what porn was.

 

[MrTroll]

Porn is based as it is one of the only things equally good at triggering religious conservative weirdos and man-hating feminists (and they all secretly watch that shit anyway).

 

[David Brown]

"Everything in moderation, including moderation."
- Irish sodomite poet

>tfw mom found the letters to Nora

 

[vomitusdeux]

I admit chuzzle deluxe porn really did have an effect on me. I see chuzzle deluxe every time I close my yes. I hear them making their little chuzzle sounds, fuzzily. the round balls of fur boinking eachother silly has done it for me.

 

[rel=alternate]

I only believe it is real in the context of poly-addiction. Meaning that it can become a life habit in this context and can be difficult to disassociate from for various reasons.

Porn itself is not addictive per say. It's just a quick short-cut to endorphine. If you believe in porn addiction, you believe in sport addiction.

Obsession might be a better description.

There are also claims of it reducing productivity, motivation, and destroying relationships. There's no shortage of posts and YouTube videos about the topic.

These people are all trying to sell you something one way or another. Even when they believe their own bullshit, they are just using porn as an excuse to justify their own failures and poor self control.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

It's very similar to the argument against drugs. There is often the claim made that drugs from the 1960s and 70s, when they started to become "mainstream", were not as potent as the drugs of today.

Just as back then, in the 60s and 70s, while I'm no porn historian, I think people would whack it to the Sear's catalogue, or Playboy. Those 2D images are leagues different than the videos of today which can be 4k, 60 fps, movie length, and even virtual reality if you want to spend 800 bucks on that.

Not to mention the accessibility of porn. It is in everybody's pocket with smartphones. And you don't need better evidence that porn is being more widely consumed than the fact that, when porn became available on most smartphones in 2010ish, smartphone screens immediately became bigger by consumer demand.

 

[SNU]

People think they are less influenced by things than they actually are. We are by nature social animals. We are all just trying to fit in. So many people think they are above it but it happens constantly whether you're aware of it or not. Our brains can't tell the difference between media and real people. Your brain is trying to make you be normal so it constantly checks for what normal is and slowly adjusts your behavior to make you more normal. You are influenced by the media you consume and the people you are surrounded by. If it's too different to what your normal currently is then your brain ignores it. You could take a normal person and lock them in a compound with a bunch of weirdos for a period of time and over time their behavior and thought patterns move towards the new normal.

It's how cults can brainwash people. Isolate someone from normal people and surround them with people who believe what you believe then eventually they change to fit in. Or in those examples where someone is in a plane crash or shipwreck then years later it turns out they integrated into a local tribe. They adopt the culture. It's also why immigrants who don't interact with people of their host country and only interact with other immigrants of the same culture don't integrate well.

So if you consume a lot of a certain type of media then over time that influences what your brain thinks normal social behavior is. It's compounded by isolating yourself from real normal people. Once the more mild stuff is considered normal then the more niche stuff doesn't seem too extreme.

It works with normal media too. If you don't talk to real people and just watch TV shows then your brain thinks that's how to be normal and your personality will be shaped by it. You'll notice that people who constantly do dramatic shit all the time usually either watch a lot of TV or are in a group of people who constantly do a lot of dramatic shit

We're all just frogs sitting in a pot of water. As long as the change isn't too extreme we don't realize what's going on.

It's also why it's completely okay to judge people by the company they keep. If they aren't like them now then they will be like them eventually if they keep surrounding themselves with those people

 

[Colloid]

The accessibility is the real issue with it. At least with drugs and alcohol you still have to go out somewhere and buy it once in awhile. No such limits with porn so long as you can afford the $60-80/mo internet connection.

So what's your take? Is it real? Are porn addicts people with other problems that are blaming porn?

I wouldn't be surprised if online porn's one of the bigger causes driving the current schism we see between men and women today honestly given how many unrealistic standards and unhealthy perspectives it sets for both sexes.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Religious people think that any porn is a porn addiction.

I think the reliance on young men on porn vs. seeking a mate isn't the porn's fault. For the average male, a woman is too unobtainable, and courting a new women with all the associated costs every couple of months isn't worth it when he already knows she won't stick around. Porn makes sense, it's gonna satisfy you and not break your heart.

 

[Ealen]

Porn isn't as dangerous as a lot of people make it out to be. The detrimental effects of habitual porn use are largely overblown. That being said, it's still gross and evil and a world without it is a desirable thing.

 

[Ewan McGregor]

I's definitely real and an insidious form of social engineering via fetishes people wouldn't otherwise have or develop

 

[Named User]

Reminder that the owner of PornHub, Solomon Friedman, is an ordained rabbi.

 

[The Backwards Man]

It turns you into a tranny.

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

And you don't need better evidence that porn is being more widely consumed than the fact that, when porn became available, smartphone screens immediately became bigger.

this is some extremely retarded cart-before-the-horse reasoning

porn, even internet porn, existed before smartphones ever did. porn didn't "become available" at any point in the smartphone's life cycle.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

A lot of people can drink alcohol responsibly, for others it becomes a serious addiction due to various factors that are still poorly understood.

Not really different in the case of porn. I think there's some concern about the sheer volume of pornography and how easily it's accessed especially by minors but most people aren't going to be interested enough in it to view it compulsively.

Minors being exposed to it are in a more dangerous place because their brains are still developing - there's a danger of developing addiction more easily similar to someone who uses drugs or alcohol at a young age.

The "gateway drug" idea that people who view porn will inherently start to seek out more extreme and depraved content is just nonsensical.