What is Veeky Forums's thoughts on pornography? This book changed my mind on it desu...

What is Veeky Forums's thoughts on pornography? This book changed my mind on it desu, because I could concentrate a lot better a few months after I quit porn.

Bunch of pseudoscience bullshit by a loser who can't get laid and thinks quitting porn will help cause he feels ashamed afterwards, so he published this shit reenforce his belief system.

and your evidence for that is?

Only 2d arouses me.

Not being a 5 yo fucking retard. Seriously, grow up.

The book is about porn addiction. You can essentially define an addiction as something that takes over your normal life. I watch porn daily but I still have a normal life. Same way having a drink daily doesn't make you an alcoholic.

The 'reseach' done on porn is of extremely poor quality.
Maybe we'll get meaningful insights once people stop acting like jerking off to whatever has any real significace.

This^

Addiction in on itself is the issue and not the subject tied to said addiction.

Porn alone isn't really a problem, at least not in terms of concentration. It might be a problem in expectations in altering your constitution in real world mate attraction though.

Daily was too much for me, I fapped daily. I haven't seen porn for nearly a year now. Here's a test: try abstaining from watching porn for around 3 months or so, and see if you have enough willpower for it.
We'll get proper research done once people stop acting like masturbating to porn is a taboo. Right now the only "research" done is based off of people's experiences on online forums.

I remember trying to go through the material on yourbrainonporn at some point. Gary Wilson is a teacher if I remember correctly, not an actual scientist, and definitely not a scientist in a field of any relevance to the subject. Of course that doesn't necessarily matter if the quality of his information was good, but when I started going through the references he provided it was a clusterfuck of bullshit. Usually the basic science he quoted was good, but it was not relevant to porn at all. For example he would cite some basic papers about addiction, brain scans and similar, but then he would make a huge leap and tie that in with porn use even though there was absolutely nothing that supported that connection.

The references to actual porn use were typically blog posts, interviews with celebrities and other completely retarded shit. It eventually became clear to me that this guy wasn't interested in the truth about anything, he had an agenda and would gather every piece of information that would even remotely support his agenda, and completely disregards everything that doesn't. This is how an activist operates, not a scientist. In that sense it reminds me a lot about the fat acceptance movent.

>Here's a test: try abstaining from watching porn for around 3 months or so, and see if you have enough willpower for it.
It doesn't work like that. You could literally apply that rule to anything in life. I could say I'm giving up carbs for a 3 month diet but fuck that, I guess I don't have the willpower. If I had a real problem I would do something about it. I get horny, I fap to porn. I also have sex with my gf, and go to work without pulling my dick out.

I think it might be to do with the fact that your body is different from mine. When I used to fap to porn depending on how long I went without, I used to ejaculate a lot of semen, the second time I did it, i.e. the day after, I had less.

What genre do you fap to by the way? Do you fap to 2D or 3D? It could be that I fap to 2D and not 3D (I grew up in a very religious household so I feel guilty with 3D). I found that the longer my "addiction" progressed I tended to go from vanilla to mind break to corruption to drugs to scat.

>I grew up in a very religious household so I feel guilty with 3D
Kek. Yeah, that will fuck you up in the brain pretty good. It does sound like you do have a problem and would benefit from refraining.

I fap to 3D, nothing depraved (unless you consider traps depraved). I like ethnic girls and group sex too.

Was going to write a 100 columns post until I typed ctrl+F4

Well, I only know porn as an addiction. So, I identify it as malign.

I would like to know the effects on "non-addicts".

What's the difference between us? Sex? If I pay for a hooker, will I get rid of this?

I watch porn like once or twice a week, and the only change I felt in my sex performance is that I got better due to practicing it, also on a weekly basis. Watching porn has no effect whatsoever in my sex life.

I think chances are, if you are spending any significant amount of time on Veeky Forums, porn probably isn't a big factor in your lack of concentration. This place is a much bigger death trap for the mind.

2D is pure, it makes you smarter and raises your IQ and it also can lead to insights on problems you're struggling with.

3DPD turns you into a disgusting hedonist brainlet who can't focus.

Prove me wrong.

anecdotal

Ohkey-dokey, believer. Happy fantasies.

Here's a test: try abstaining for 3 months from food. Can't? HAHAHA YOU ARE ___ADDICTED___ MY LE FRIENDO!

Cumming is a natural urge you fucking moron and it doesn't matter if it's in the condom, cunt or on your stomach.

Is porn neurotoxic?

>frequent ejaculation is a natural need akin to that for food

You're really married to this whole being a degenerate thing, aren't you?

>degenerate
Back to church kiddo

>nothing depraved
>girly men
pick one

THIS GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN AND NEVER RETURN.

Same with any kind of social media. Being constantly exposed to rapid-fire, bite-size stimulation makes any kind of in-depth learning much more difficult if not impossible.

it seems to think that it's making an argument, fascinating

Yeah, dude. Porn is totally as important as food! You're not addicted at all!

>nothing depraved (unless you consider traps depraved).
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ITT: virgins addicted to porn getting triggered

If you refuse to even try the 3 month challenge you're a sad and depraved man.

this shit is almost as bad as "veganism is good for you" pseudoscience

Why three months? Why not five months? Five years? Can't abstain for fifty, then your addicted.

Or so long as we're pulling numbers out of our ass, just abstain for one day, and your fine.

You can't go more than one day without porn? I'm sorry to hear that.