
Dejected 55
Enlightened
- May 7, 2025
- 1,080
I don't want to be mistaken for "defending" porn... but the flip side to being exposed to things by porn that you never would have known about to try otherwise... is... there are still parts of the world where female sexuality is repressed (even in the west, several factions of Christianity are repressive towards the desires of women)... and so it can be argued that there are at least some women who see things in porn that they didn't know it was okay to want to do or enjoy have had their lives enriched by knowing there were women doing those things. Mind you, it's all about you wanting to do it and not being forced or shamed... but knowledge is power.You are right. But the problem with porn that it makes a lot of people sexual tendencies extreme and they'll turned on by things they would have never touched if it wasn't for porn. They might not even like it but porn starts to condition them to get aroused.
So again you are totally right that people should be able to communicate what they desire and if they don't align then thats it. But you can check pornfree or nofap subreddits to see countless men suffering and trying their best because porn is literally destroying their life.
In a better world, people could feel comfortable talking about sex more openly, at least with their partners, without fear of judgment or shame... and then I'd wager there would be less "need" for porn to fill that gap.
As for people with porn addiction... yeah, that is sadly a reality for some people. But when you are addicted to something it usually means you were seeking something that you weren't getting elsewhere and so you were willing to do something that actually didn't give you what you truly needed. Drugs, alcohol, sexual addiction, porn... whatever the thing a person is addicted to... is typically a substitute for something else missing in their lives. Porn addiction isn't even for someone who is lacking sex. A lot of men addicted to porn actually have partners in real life but somehow they feel unable to connect with them.. and they might be having actual sex with an actual partner but because whatever else they are missing is still missing they seek it in porn, become addicted when they still don't get it... and it grows from there.
I just feel like it's an easy out for someone to blame porn for their behavior. Porn, video games, books, etc. historically get blamed when people are looking for something to blame and don't want to take personal responsibility.
For myself I'll just say that I know. I view more porn than I should. I'm not doing it to substitute for reality. I just suck at reality. Anytime I've ever been interested in someone or trying to connect with someone, my porn use drops to zero because I'm trying to make real connections. When the connections fail, all that is left for me is porn and so I take what I can get because at least with porn nobody but me is getting hurt.
I don't hate on the porn, but some of it is quite distasteful to me so I avoid that like the plague. I'm that rare guy probably who doesn't skip through the story parts just to get to the sex. The acting is horrendous and laughable but I appreciate the attempts at a narrative and that is the only way I can get into porn.