Is Pornography Damaging Your Brain?

[UA_Iron]

Haha, i expanded on this on an earlier thread

http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?t=437915

 

[preemo]

long ass thread!!

 

[Beachbum1546]

If it does, it's worth it.

 

[Sassy69]

Sassy....would you like to participate? (in your thread...)

I think like you said - its a matter of being responsible for yourself. There are lots of temptations in the world -- food, sex, anythign that occupies an inordinate amount of your time & keeps you from getting done the things you need to get done. (Wait... like EF?? )

But sex is something that is so tightly tied to emotion, commitment and everythign that is fundamental to relationships. Personally I find porn fascinating for about 5 min, then it gets old. I guess maybe I'm de-sensitized, but mostly it just becomes uninteresting in the sense that it doens't add much to my real life. Do I think its impacted my life or my brain in a negative way? PRobably not. I probably have more ideas of what you can "do" as well as stuff I have absolutely no interest in. Porn can desensitize you but in a way I think it takes the "shock value" out of a lot of stuff that some people get really hung up on & allows you to set it into the pile of things that you've already determined have no value in your life (e.g. people who get excited about hitting McDonalds for dinner -- its not conducive to my diet and the grease generally makes me sick to my stomach, therefore I don't even need it in my life.)

I need to ponder this more & see if I can find more to add...

 

[Testosterone boy]

I think like you said - its a matter of being responsible for yourself. There are lots of temptations in the world -- food, sex, anythign that occupies an inordinate amount of your time & keeps you from getting done the things you need to get done. (Wait... like EF?? )

But sex is something that is so tightly tied to emotion, commitment and everythign that is fundamental to relationships. Personally I find porn fascinating for about 5 min, then it gets old. I guess maybe I'm de-sensitized, but mostly it just becomes uninteresting in the sense that it doens't add much to my real life. Do I think its impacted my life or my brain in a negative way? PRobably not. I probably have more ideas of what you can "do" as well as stuff I have absolutely no interest in. Porn can desensitize you but in a way I think it takes the "shock value" out of a lot of stuff that some people get really hung up on & allows you to set it into the pile of things that you've already determined have no value in your life (e.g. people who get excited about hitting McDonalds for dinner -- its not conducive to my diet and the grease generally makes me sick to my stomach, therefore I don't even need it in my life.)

I need to ponder this more & see if I can find more to add...

Role reversal....takes me about 5 minutes to really get into it.

 

[Sassy69]

Role reversal....takes me about 5 minutes to really get into it.

Very true -- men are much more visually stimulated than women. Maybe I just need 5 minutes to get my mind going ....

 

[coldblue1955]

i say yeah.

 

[curling]

"When I ask men who are sex addicts if they would want their wife or daughter to be in porn, 100 percent say, 'No,'" she said. "They want it to be somebody else's wife or daughter. They know this material is damaging."

This is very good point here. With all those people who don't think it is damaging would you want your wife or daughter being in porn?

 

[jd_uk]

Porn can be used in a good way. It can also be damaging.

Same as a lot of things.

 

[pintoca]

I'm beyond salvage