PORNOGRAPHY
- Thread
Everything you need to know:
- Negative effects of porn:
- - health (psychological/physiological)
- - relationships
- - etc.
- Addiction
- The criminality of the porn industry
- Benefits of quitting
- How to quit
- - etc.
[back by popular demand]
Porn is one of the greatest, but most overlooked, problems of the modern world. It is impossible to overstate how big of an issue pornography is. It is evil, and so are the people responsible for creating this industry. If you're in doubt, keep reading.
SOME BASIC STATS: 25% of all daily web searches are pornographic.
http://archive.vn/1uhsw
The average age that most people first see pornography is 11 years old. As of 2017, children under the age of 10 make up 22% of online porn consumption for under 18s.
Remember those statistics, because you're gonna learn how much regular pornography usage can damage an adult's mind, let alone the developing mind of a child.
ADDICTION: How do you know if you're addicted? If you tell yourself things like "I can quit any time I just don't want to," or if you try to quit and fail after 2 or 3 days, or if you can't go longer than 1 or 2 weeks without watching porn/fapping.
The internet (and MSM) will tell you that you are only addicted if you watch porn in situations like at work or in public. BS. That's EXTREME addiction. Go by this measure instead: If you can't even go 3 weeks without watching porn or fapping then you are an addict.
PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS: Porn addicts regularly suffer from anxiety, depression, social awkwardness, lack of motivation, lack of energy, headaches, poor memory, foggy brain, inability to talk to women, erectile dysfunction, sexual dysfunction in general, self-loathing, etc.
Not everyone will be affected in the same way, but the above problems are very common in porn addicts. Excessive pornography/masturbation has a huge array of negative psychological (and physiological) side effects.
This is partially because you are destroying the normal functionality of your endocrine system, which regulates your body's hormones, which in turn regulate how your body and mind function. (Healthy body, healthy mind). More on this later.
SCIENTIFIC STUDIES: Below are a few studies on the negative effects of porn. There are a lot more out there, but this selection should be enough to demonstrate that the negative effects mentioned above have been verified scientifically/medically.
Burned out dopamine receptors -
http://archive.vn/B6uJb High prolactin (kills motivation) -
http://archive.vn/Q0tXf Hypofrontality (kills memory and associated with ADHD, bipolar, depression) -
http://archive.vn/82sdo -
http://archive.vn/PE5Sc -
http://archive.vn/Yi616
Measurable brain damage (loss of gray matter) -
http://archive.vn/jUhcj -
http://archive.vn/UgWMX Stronger cravings than drug users (meth) -
http://archive.vn/JxBBF You can easily find more studies online.
HORMONES: It takes 7 days for testosterone (T) levels to recover from one fap. After 7 days, your T begins to stabilize at its "normal" level. However, if you fap regularly, your "normal" level of T may be bottomed out, but you can increase it:
http://archive.vn/gWfFM
"Regularly" is anything more frequent than once every 1 to 2 weeks (as this means your T-levels are never fully recovering). According to most statistics, 50% of young people masturbate 1-7 times per week. The average is 3 times per week, once every two days.
There is a bad counter-argument that "fapping doesn't lower test but abstaining from fapping does increase test." Of course abstaining increases testosterone when everyone is running on empty 24/7. Anyone making this argument is an idiot.
Fapping kills gains. (If you are a regular masturbator, all of your other hormones will be out of whack too, due to your fucked up endocrine system. This also applies to women, I'm just using testosterone as an example).
Men today have less testosterone than men of the same age of the previous generation - porn is a large contributor to this (alongside endocrine-disrupting chemicals, such as birth control). It seems to be an approximate 20% drop per generation. It's probably more with zoomers.
STRESS: You may have heard that "regular masturbation is good because it de-stresses you!" To be blunt, this is extremely harmful bullshit propaganda. Yes, dopamine (which is released during masturbation) can reduce stress hormones (e.g. Cortisol), however...
Excessive dopamine release causes the body to become much *more* stressed than usual. A simplified explanation is that the chemical imbalance in your body forces your you into a constant state of "fight-or-flight," generating far more stress hormones in the process.
Is it any wonder that this harmful myth is propagated by people like Planned Parenthood? It's also in the interest of governments and corporations' to promote harmful myths like this. Keeping the population in a state of stress leads to more consumption, less action, more fear.
RELATIONSHIPS: Porn destroys relationships. Porn is a contributing factor in 60% of divorce cases, half of which was due to excessive porn usage.
http://archive.vn/TzQG6
If you use all of your coom power on egirl foot pics, and your brain is hooked on fucked up porn, you are going to lose connection to your gf/bf. This isn't rocket science. Don't let dopamine-harvesting eg*rl demons drain your vital energy, save it for your bf/gf.
Your perception of male/female attractiveness is destroyed when you watch a lot of porn (or fap a lot). You are, essentially, hacking your brain into only being attracted to the finest human specimens in existence (who are out of the league of 95% of people reading this).
Don't masturbate for 4 weeks and watch those 7/10s become 10/10s as your perception of the opposite sex slowly returns to normal. The longer you abstain, the more you will be attracted to "normal" members of the opposite sex (i.e.: people in your own league)
PORN BAD: That should be obvious. It's worse than bad, its a weapon. Isra*lis broadcast pornography on Palestinian TV in 2000s. Did they do it to be nice to the Palestinians? Just being good neighbors, showing porn to the kids?
http://archive.vn/Tm0g8 http://archive.vn/ADxhu