Porn addiction

Part of the reason I brought this topic up is because I've been thinking about whether I can really control what I do or not.

If I decide, at the spur of the moment to stop watching porn for a week, can I really hold out? Or do I need porn like some people need cigarettes?

If I didn't touch the stuff for a month, would I be fine or would I be irritable, distracted and show signs of dependency?

I don't wanna have anything control me. And seeing the beta-male shit some guys do to get pussy or impress girls, you know shit controls them.
 


Ar Scion said:
I don't wanna have anything control me. And seeing the beta-male shit some guys do to get pussy or impress girls, you know shit controls them.
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Guys that key cars, start fights, lose friends, and sell out on their principals due to pussy are literally tools (for the opposite sex). It makes you realize that sex is just like any other drug. Let it take over and end up a pathetic junky that will do anything for his next fix.

I was skeptical of articles written by possibly feminist authors about porn addiction. They clearly have an agenda and use little empirical evidence to support their claims. The Your Brain on Porn video series convinced me that overexposure to porn and sex in general has real physiological consequences. It causes dopamine receptors in the brain to deteriorate, lessening the pay off.

Like anything enjoyable, porn is best used in moderation.
 
on the dlipside i think girls have it a lot worse.

nop guy can compete with a rampant rabbit, ususally when you have sex you have a few intense moments when you feel really really good (before you cum).

The arousal sort of peaks and troughs during sex, pretty sure for girls the same is true.

Well with a rabbit a girl can have the same intense feelingh throughout with a rabbit, cos se get get that spot that works for her.

On top of that she can keep on going fr 10-15 times a night, she will get exhausted but it will feel good all throoughtout that time.
 
I've been in the adult industry for over 9 years. I see a lot of hot women's pictures and videos on a daily basis. I do watch porn at home with my girlfriend and she's the one that likes to spice it up from time to time. It's all about how you use it
 
Dwight Schrute said:
I was discussing this topic with an addiction therapist, and he said in the studies that have been done on porn, the parts of the brain that activate on cocaine also activate on porn. It creates the same desire, same feeling, etc.
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This explains why a buddy of mine who was a big time coke head said that having sex while on coke is the most amazing feeling in this universe.
 
Pulse said:
IMO as porn increases in intensity (more violence, more extreme shit) more people will have problems with desensitization and addiction because they're blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. They're basically training themselves to require more and more stimulation to get up and get off.

Made me think of...
Porn Tech Support - YouTube
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lol.. Porn rules the world.
 
avatar33 said:
This explains why a buddy of mine who was a big time coke head said that having sex while on coke is the most amazing feeling in this universe.
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Holy shit, thanks for clearing that up. I've been trying to get to the bottom of this one for a while.

I kept having sex while under the influence of cocaine and couldn't figure out why it felt better or if there was a correlation!?
 
If you just drop a load in the shower as efficiently as possible each day without any forethought or time spent doing so, then obviously you aren't addicted in any way but just keeping up the maintenance of your body, so to speak.

It's the fantasy aspect of porn that makes for the addiction...

All Fantasies have an addictive quality... Porn, Dungeons & Dragons, comic books, SCA, even TV shows and movies to a degree. (e.g. Harry Potter, Star Wars) It's really the same thing as "Fandom" in your brain; how much you let it carry you away.

Finding that perfect ass to nail is the same part of the fandom process in your brain as finding out a weakness superman has or watching Harry and Voltemort go at it at last...

The only difference really is that as men we can't avoid do it altogether, not without being castrated. It's ingrained into our DNA to spill our seed as often as possible with as many different women as possible and if it wasn't then we simply would not exist. Evolution 101 stuff.

tl;dr: You don't have to get into porn fantasies just like you don't have to dress up as Harry Potter. Just learn to maintain your body unless being a FAN is what you want to do with your life.
 
If you write porn off as fantasy because it's too unrealistic for you, then that sucks, bros. A girl that is wildly in to you will be open to just about anything.

Spend more time making your dreams come true. Even the filthy ones.

Hint: if you lie to your significant other about porn, there isn't much hope for you.
 
I'm fairly certain porn is the only thing that keeps me in check. When I go a few days without rubbing one out I become a fiend and want to hit on every chick I see and somehow end up checking POF and BackPages for an easy lay.

True story, I went 2 weeks without rubbing one out and felt like absolute shit. When I finally got an "oldie" I could barely move and it took me the full day to recover.
 
amanda11 said:
Don't see what's the big fucking deal is, unless you're those old pervy men who watch porn upwards to 3 hours a day. Nothing wrong with 5 to 15 minutes of daily porn viewing.
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Wait, all of a sudden there's something wrong with 3+ hours of porn a day after a whole bunch of decades chasing the dollar, the woman, and the drink?

This is called natural decompression from a life in the fast lane - not pervy old man behavior!

I'd go on but I'm in the middle of a Bang Bros Anal marathon.
 
Dwight Schrute said:
I was discussing this topic with an addiction therapist, and he said in the studies that have been done on porn, the parts of the brain that activate on cocaine also activate on porn. It creates the same desire, same feeling, etc.
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it takes me forever to finish with the gf, if i ever finish at all. i think i need to stop looking at porn...
 
Short answer is yes, it can lead to a behavioural addiction.

1. Orgasm = a massive dopamine release into the brain (which is why it feels so great).
2. Dopamine activates your reward pathways (Cocaine mimics dopamine amongst other things).
3. By repeatedly having orgasms whilst exposing yourself to a hyper-stimulating situation ( e.g. looking at porn), you are rewiring your brain to want more.
4. This works in exactly the same way as Pavolv trained his dogs. Neurons that fire together, wire together.
5. This leads to wanting to look at more porn, but it can also lead to you no longer finding other things as rewarding. Like sex with your girlfriend. Having trouble finishing? This is you.

I disagree with what LukeP says, it's not the fantasy (although that can be addictive). It's the massive dopamine release that happens when you bring yourself to orgasm looking at porn, combined with how overstimulating looking at dozens of naked, copulating women in short succession is.

If you want to know more, get The Brain That Changes Itself By Norman Doidge.
 
amateursurgeon said:
I disagree with what LukeP says, it's not the fantasy (although that can be addictive). It's the massive dopamine release that happens when you bring yourself to orgasm looking at porn, combined with how overstimulating looking at dozens of naked, copulating women in short succession is.
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Odd, I agree with your point, so I don't see how our two additions to this thread today are at odds... There can be a fantasy element and a brain rewiring too... One doesn't exclude the other.
 
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