I don't get this porn worship. Porn is meaningless, empty BS that fulfills a singular, primal purpose. After you're done, you throw it away like that kleenex you just used and go do something more productive with your life. It's hardly worth getting worked up over.
I love the fact the he's had a long and successful track career, but when he started publicly campaigning against a basic pleasure freedom that we all have as adults, I turned on him.
He may be a better runner than many of us. Most of us to be exact. But his morals and opinions do not make him a better human being than the next person, and I wish he would have kept his personal hatred and personal perceived struggle towards this certain indulgence private.
I doubt he struggled with it. I think he was bamboozled by religious personnel into believing he struggled with what the holier than thou consider a vice, and what the rest of us consider a normal and generic part of adult life.
If you think pornography is a normal and healthy part of an adult life, then you are a very sad and broken individual. Yes, many struggle with it, but not everybody is proud of being defeated by such a damaging thing. You need help and healing my friend.
I love the fact the he's had a long and successful track career, but when he started publicly campaigning against a basic pleasure freedom that we all have as adults, I turned on him.
He may be a better runner than many of us. Most of us to be exact. But his morals and opinions do not make him a better human being than the next person, and I wish he would have kept his personal hatred and personal perceived struggle towards this certain indulgence private.
I doubt he struggled with it. I think he was bamboozled by religious personnel into believing he struggled with what the holier than thou consider a vice, and what the rest of us consider a normal and generic part of adult life.
He is in recovery from pornography addiction good for him. It was harmful to his life so him campaigning against it makes sense!
I love the fact the he's had a long and successful track career, but when he started publicly campaigning against a basic pleasure freedom that we all have as adults, I turned on him.
He may be a better runner than many of us. Most of us to be exact. But his morals and opinions do not make him a better human being than the next person, and I wish he would have kept his personal hatred and personal perceived struggle towards this certain indulgence private.
I doubt he struggled with it. I think he was bamboozled by religious personnel into believing he struggled with what the holier than thou consider a vice, and what the rest of us consider a normal and generic part of adult life.
He is in recovery from pornography addiction good for him. It was harmful to his life so him campaigning against it makes sense!
So I dated a girl in college that was a member of a sorority and was afraid of intimacy. I found later on that she was actually in porn films, and this is how she paid her way through college. It is not what you imagined she was not some freak she was broken individual that I could not be with.
The article drips with bias "sophisticated analysis" the authors of this study were "very clever".
So, the proposed mechanism of action for porn addiction MAY BE different than what has been previously theorized.
I was primarily talking about the porn industry, not the porn viewers, that were the cause of trafficking, rape and other sexual misdeeds.
Every now and then a thread really surprises me on LetsRun. The bizarre amount of religious fervor here along with misinformation is hilarious. But disconcerting.
If you hate porn I have no problem with you. There are aspects of it that are very unsavory and I respect your personal choices and beliefs. However, many of you are peddling narratives that have been shown to be false and are even harmful in some cases.
1) Not all porn is the same. There are types and varieties, and given the modesties of the crowd here, I will refrain from describing it. However, there is pinup-style nudity and hardcore porn - are you equating them? Moreover, there are people who can be aroused by paintings and statues. Are they pornographic then? How about phallic cave drawings from prehistoric France?
Without you specifying exactly what porn is, I don’t accept any assertions or even your premises.
2) Many of you refer to the term ‘addiction’ here and invoke the dopamine signaling pathway that is responsible for drug and alcohol addiction. There’s no real mechanism that is the same for sex/porn. The correct term is process addiction and it is much more complicated. It’s more similar to gambling, shopping, and overeating than it is to drugs.
Most of the porn made in the US comes from sites like OnlyFans. Are those girls having their souls crushed? Are they being exploited?
I don't get this porn worship. Porn is meaningless, empty BS that fulfills a singular, primal purpose. After you're done, you throw it away like that kleenex you just used and go do something more productive with your life. It's hardly worth getting worked up over.
I think it's the anti-porn crusaders that are getting worked up over it.
The article drips with bias "sophisticated analysis" the authors of this study were "very clever".
So, the proposed mechanism of action for porn addiction MAY BE different than what has been previously theorized.
I was primarily talking about the porn industry, not the porn viewers, that were the cause of trafficking, rape and other sexual misdeeds.
Every now and then a thread really surprises me on LetsRun. The bizarre amount of religious fervor here along with misinformation is hilarious. But disconcerting.
If you hate porn I have no problem with you. There are aspects of it that are very unsavory and I respect your personal choices and beliefs. However, many of you are peddling narratives that have been shown to be false and are even harmful in some cases.
1) Not all porn is the same. There are types and varieties, and given the modesties of the crowd here, I will refrain from describing it. However, there is pinup-style nudity and hardcore porn - are you equating them? Moreover, there are people who can be aroused by paintings and statues. Are they pornographic then? How about phallic cave drawings from prehistoric France?
Without you specifying exactly what porn is, I don’t accept any assertions or even your premises.
2) Many of you refer to the term ‘addiction’ here and invoke the dopamine signaling pathway that is responsible for drug and alcohol addiction. There’s no real mechanism that is the same for sex/porn. The correct term is process addiction and it is much more complicated. It’s more similar to gambling, shopping, and overeating than it is to drugs.
Most of the porn made in the US comes from sites like OnlyFans. Are those girls having their souls crushed? Are they being exploited?
Most of what is on hbo and Netflix is basically porn.
I love the fact the he's had a long and successful track career, but when he started publicly campaigning against a basic pleasure freedom that we all have as adults, I turned on him.
He may be a better runner than many of us. Most of us to be exact. But his morals and opinions do not make him a better human being than the next person, and I wish he would have kept his personal hatred and personal perceived struggle towards this certain indulgence private.
I doubt he struggled with it. I think he was bamboozled by religious personnel into believing he struggled with what the holier than thou consider a vice, and what the rest of us consider a normal and generic part of adult life.
Honest -- I don't care. If he thinks porn is bad and wants to campaign against it, it doesn't bother me. Some people campaign against alcohol. When I press "Post Reply", I'm going to have a beer.
According to the articles on this, he is against both porn AND masturbation.
The only reason that ANY man watches porn is because their wife is neglecting them in the bedroom. Don't want your husband watching porn? Then start doing your job and start servicing him correctly and often enough. It's that simple.
Last time I checked, Utah and Oklahoma watch more porn than any other states. They are also the 2 most religious states. The churches make it so darn taboo, and that's why so many young people get so heavily interested and involved in porn.
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Went to a church for a while that talked about having "sex" 30 days in a row. The reason they didn't say was so you wouldn't be doing yourself. That's what the American Taliban wants.
No, but I sure did lose respect when he began spouting his laughable religious nonsense. Dude, keep that sh*t private. Way more gross than any pornography. He's a great runner. But I sure wish people would keep their love, devotion and submission to their imaginary friends to themselves. And that goes especially for athletes. Big yuck.
What "laughable religious nonsense" did Willis spout?
No, but I sure did lose respect when he began spouting his laughable religious nonsense. Dude, keep that sh*t private. Way more gross than any pornography. He's a great runner. But I sure wish people would keep their love, devotion and submission to their imaginary friends to themselves. And that goes especially for athletes. Big yuck.
What "laughable religious nonsense" did Willis spout?
You don't need to be religious to realize most porn is just exploiting damaged women.
Incels like yourself depend on it to keep you from shooting up a WalMart but it's really very bad for most of the women who get involved.
So you're saying you're a porn addict that gets angry at anyone who talks about taking away your fix?
Nah porn, at least in the modern form, is pretty cancerous. I'm not morally against masturbation or anything, but you'd be an idiot to assume porn (at least in it's modern form) can't be destructive if you let yourself become addicted to it. This is true for anything that gives you extreme, instant gratification with no work involved to get it.
Does this mean I shouldn't have electricity in my house? Or heat? Ahhhh instant warmth! Should I only warm up by cardio?
I love the fact the he's had a long and successful track career, but when he started publicly campaigning against a basic pleasure freedom that we all have as adults, I turned on him.
He may be a better runner than many of us. Most of us to be exact. But his morals and opinions do not make him a better human being than the next person, and I wish he would have kept his personal hatred and personal perceived struggle towards this certain indulgence private.
I doubt he struggled with it. I think he was bamboozled by religious personnel into believing he struggled with what the holier than thou consider a vice, and what the rest of us consider a normal and generic part of adult life.
Did u get gratification by your instant message to the www?
So you're saying you're a porn addict that gets angry at anyone who talks about taking away your fix?
Nah porn, at least in the modern form, is pretty cancerous. I'm not morally against masturbation or anything, but you'd be an idiot to assume porn (at least in it's modern form) can't be destructive if you let yourself become addicted to it. This is true for anything that gives you extreme, instant gratification with no work involved to get it.
Does this mean I shouldn't have electricity in my house? Or heat? Ahhhh instant warmth! Should I only warm up by cardio?
What "laughable religious nonsense" did Willis spout?
You don't need to be religious to realize most porn is just exploiting damaged women.
Incels like yourself depend on it to keep you from shooting up a WalMart but it's really very bad for most of the women who get involved.
I read recently an article about "Sharon Stone" when invited in a Saudi Arabia Cinema festival she said that playing these porn scenes (which wasn't her personality in RL) in "Basic Instincts" impacted very badly her future life.
Just here to remind everyone there is no such thing as a “porn addiction” in the medical/mental health world. The science isn’t there yet - despite many previous posters saying otherwise.
Anything that produces dopamine is potentially addictive. Period.
In the non-medical world, sure, I guess.
In the medical/mental health world, no.
“Addiction to substances, for example, not only activates your brain's pleasure circuits, it actually changes your brain chemistry so that you can no longer release feel-good chemicals like dopamine as effectively without the help of the drug you're addicted to.“
Sex/porn have not been proven to change brain chemistry, which is why it is not labeled as a disorder like drugs/alcohol/gambling.
It’s open and shut. You can religiously or socially disagree with it, but there’s no medical basis to support your argument.
Wow, are some of you serious with this? Yeah, he was "murdered*-- he knew too much!!
Didn't know enough to check himself for serious ailments but he's freaking about-- checks notes-- COVID in Dec 2022... how many shots did he have?
Also, if you want to protest about workers and immigrant deaths, Wahl could have stayed in New York, where there are plenty of largely unreported, publicly un-mourned workplace fatalities and maimings to go around.
The idea that Grant Wahl was "important" enough for even the most offended Qatari to spend any money on silencing is patently absurd.
That a photo guy also croakeWow, are some of you serious with this? Yeah, he was "murdered*-- he knew too much!!
Didn't know enough to check himself for serious ailments but he's freaking about-- checks notes-- COVID in Dec 2022... how many shots did he have?
Also, if you want to protest about workers and immigrant deaths, Wahl could have stayed in New York, where there are plenty of largely unreported, publicly un-mourned workplace fatalities and maimings to go around.
The idea that Grant Wahl was "important" enough for even the most offended Qatari to spend any money on silencing is patently absurd.
That a photo guy also croaked is simple coincidence -- how many people died in Qatar this week total?
Are they all part of "conspiracy" too? Don't rush to answer.d is simple coincidence -- how many people died in Qatar this week total?
Are they all part of "conspiracy" too? Don't rush to answer.
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