ROUGH PORN

A lot of the wording and narratives on porn sites are extremely damaging, they can conjour up many different ideas about the same photo or video. If a site says it's a 'step father and daughter' scene when you know in reality it's just two people who have been paid by a production company, part of you goes along with the narratives even if the narrative isn't necessarily what got you interested in the first place. A lot of the language on porn sites normalises abuse,violence, power, control and submission. Romance and eroticism is long gone these days. Each time you view a new video/image with associated themes and narratives you are training your mind to associate these things with the women you meet in the real world. It's especially damaging for children who view this content who have no guidance or inner compass to navigate their way through this minefield. I was a child once who started to view porn waaaay before I was mature enough to understand it properly and that only severely messed me up later in life.

 

It's most disturbing when it doesn't surprise your eye anymore

 

Very important topic!
I used to say to myself: when relapse occurs at least don't go to the extreme porn. There's enough "normal" porn out there to fap to.
I tried to reinstall boundaries but with little success.

Yes, the industry manipulates users into stuff. It's dirty but it's their business. However I'm the one who decides to use porn and what kind of porn. And there's no lack of variety!

In the end we harm ourselves and others.
Fuck that shit!

 

The porn industry is disgusting and the best reason to quit:
Never EVER support an industry that exploits and promotes addictive behaviour, that promotes violence against women, that disrespects women and childrens rights, that is closely linked to all kinds of different crimes, that even disrespects its users, .... make a personal decision to stop supporting such industry NOW and for good

 

yeah porn is a traitor. it appears as our best friend. always accessible. sways us into a life of no morals until we have no life left.

 

Still a good thread!
Worth to remember what we discussed here ...

 

When I first discovered porn in 1991, it was pretty girls and scenes that were maybe 8 minutes long. Hell, I used to get a thrill looking at the box art. I never had much guilt about it. Modern porn is a circus act. Would any of us actually want to act out the scenes we watch? I definitely wouldn’t. It’s still brutally hard to quit but being disgusted helps stay away.