What do you class as porn?

If you asked the vast majority of people in a survey what is porn, most people would probably say pornographic movies. Where as the reality is anything artificial your looking at on a screen, magazine ext could be classed as porn. For instance you could watch one single porn scene on a dvd one night, and another night you could search hundreds of images of hotties on social media. You might actually find that the novelty of searching hundreds of these images is actually more sexually stimulating than that one porn scene. So in this case the thing that is categorised as porn content might actually be less sexually stimulating than the things that are not classed as porn content. It's mainly the novelty that is the problem, the constant seeking, searching and getting new arousing content instantly. Pornographic movies will overall be more sexually stimulating than a few social media images of hotties, but the thing is people aren't searching and looking at one thing, they're probably searching and looking at hundreds of things, multiple tabs open flicking back and forth between them all.

It's also not so much what your looking at that's the problem, it's the behaviour. For instance if you randomly seen an attractive woman on tv and thought oh I'd love to have sex with her, that is actually fine. But if you started searching other tv channels looking for women for an erotic buzz, searching online for images videos for attractive women for an erotic buzz that is not fine. It's the behaviour, the deliberately searching and seeking for that erotic buzz that is the problem. For instance seeing a billboard with a hot woman on it and thinking oh no I have seen porn is ludicrous.

It's the behaviour we need to change. We need to stop seeking out artificial stimuli for an erotic buzz. But that doesn't mean we can't ever see attractive women on a screen. We just simply never deliberately seek it for an erotic buzz.

 

I think we might of somewhat disagreed on the same issue on a different post. Masturbation and sexual fantasies have happened in men longer then anyone alive today could guess. Yet it was only since the 2000's but particularly in 2006 sexual dysfunction started being reported at an alarming rate in young men. If masturbation and sexual fantasy has happened for over 100 years, then why has it only started being reported in young healthy men for at most the last 20 years?

I think if someone is constantly masturbating having sexual fantasies about porn then yes this definitely isn't good. But it's no where near on the same level as masturbating deliberately searching and watching porn and artificial sexual stimulation. The occasional wank imagining your having sex with a woman you know (realistic fantasy) would cause little or no harm. But I do agree with you to some extent, sitting about masturbating for hours on end imagining all sorts of kinky shit isn't good either. But how many guys actually want to do that anyway? Essentially what it sounds like you were doing is you stopped watching porn but were still masturbating, binging watching it in your mind.

 

Well I masturbated and had sexual fantasies for I'd say around 7 years before I had ever seen porn. Yet after I got my first laptop when I was 18 a few years later I began experience sexual dysfunction like PIED. If you speak to older guys in their 40's and 50's they will tell you they masturbated growing up.

I do agree with you though that men maybe didn't masturbate anywhere near as frequently before high speed internet. But high speed internet has caused men to masturbate much more frequently.