What negative effects can porn have on...

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What negative effects can occasional porn viewing have on yourself? Does it mess anything up socially...in your love life...or anything? Mentally? Long term effects?

well it can if you become obsessed. Porn can give a false representation of what occurs during actual intercourse, although it is mainly true....It can make someone get a false representation of what women look like, and men look like, penis size, breast size, etc....but I mean if you just take it as porn it does not do anything

I'm going to be the only one here who will tell you this. Others will disagree, perhaps harshly.
But porn is not good. It can not only complicate your life, it can totally screw it up.
There are some folks who are able to look at it "ocassionally" and be done with it. Not most. It's a very addictive thing. Once addictive, it's a monster that you don't wanna deal with.

Just my two cents.

I agree. I've lost count of the number of times I've deleted my porn collection, only to start gathering new material piece by piece until I finally bring myself to do it all over again. Once you've started, it's extremely difficult to quit completely, and also very difficult to enjoy in reasonable amount. You almost always tend to abuse it since it's so easy to use and so powerful in terms of stimulation. Like cigarettes, it's better never to start.

i definetly agree. its definetly like some nasty kinda addiction. once i started, i couldn't stop, and i had to start watching worse and worse stuff for it to do anything for me, and i eventually had to force myself off it

I dunno. I watch porn from time to time and I haven't had any problems with addictions, social problems, etc. Not saying that it cant happen, but I dont think occassionally watching porn is very likely to mess you up socially.

It's not just watching it, it's when it takes over your social life. I have seen a hell of a of porn in my days and still have no problem getting it hard with my way overweight wife. And i'm not into way overweight women. If you come home from school or work and make a beline to the comp just to look for new porn and ignore your friends and family, there is a problem.

Oh. Just sometimes on the weekends only when I can't sleep or get bored, I look at it a few times for a bit, and that's it. I'm sure it has no effect on me. I mainly look at it because I'm bored to tears or something. When I have things to do, I don't even think about it. So I guess I'm alright then, huh?

You certainly don't seem addicted.

wasn't there a guy who went around raping and killing females from his addiction to porn at such a young age?

That would be Ted Bundy. His deal started with "innocent" soft porn when he was a kid and got progressively worse until...well, we all know the rest of the story.

That's not to say that everyone who looks at porn is gonna rape and kill. Most won't. But I could almost bet you that if he had never ever looked at porn, a lot of those girls would be alive.

Porn addiction is very real and can be destructive to your life.It starts off very slowly,"beneath the surface" so to speak,till one day you wake up and wonder where all your time went and the great waste and loss of productivity.There comes a point where it eventually supplants your day to day relationships and the " surreal" becomes the real.Porn addiction has very little to do with sex in itself;which is indeed a catch 22-if there ever was one.You could have just as easily chosen food,drugs,booze,etc.;it's just that porn filled all the criteria at that point in time-? The boredom or lack of goal(s) fills in quite " nicely" with porns appetite for the various triggers which can set you off in that direction.ie.you begin the " hunt " on the net for the x-rated sites that will temporarily fill in that void for the moment.(But you know-you will be back again-sometime in the near future-for the void is bottomless-it can't give you direction in your life,thank G-d for that-! )
Healthy,vigorous sex life is supreme in life-but nobody can tell me that porn is of any great contributor to this quest.

I dont know if I'd agree that porn was soley responsible for Ted Bundys killing spree. I know he laid the blame at the door of porn shortly before he died, but that always sounded like he was trying to shirk responsibilty for his own actions to me. I've heard older people use the saying 'if it's not in you in cant come out of you'. I think that's very apt in Ted Bundys case.On a different topic though, porn dosent do anything for me, it never did. I'm just curious to know is this likely because I'm female? I'd be interested to hear comments from women who enjoy porn, any women out there want to tell me what the kick is? (and I mean women who enjoy it for thier own sakes, not simply to please their partner)

I surely wouldn't take Ted Bundy's word for anything. He was a psychopathic manipulator until the moment he died. Of course he would shirk personal responsibility.If porn turned people into rapists and killers, Japan would have a very high rate of both. It sounds nice to say what Damien said, but I'm not aware of any objective evidence that supports it.

I'm agreeing with you again Steve! What's happening here?... this is all getting very odd...!

The Apocalypse draws nigh.