Why porn use is considered normal in this day and age?

To the average person, because it’s normal to have a sex drive, it should therefore be normal to watch porn and masturbate. As your definition suggests, it’s “expected.”

Porn does not go against our biology by the way, it’s everything our biology could ever want.

 

Because we grow up watching it and it is so easy to find porn now.

 

How is watching people have sex something our biology wants? Our biology wants us to have sex. Our biology wants us to be physically intimate with another person so we can combine our genetic material. It doesn't want us to be physically intimate with a screen/picture/video/sex toy/your own hand. This is why porn creates intimacy disorder and conditions people to use another person's body/appearance for self-gratification rather than seeing it as an act of human physical connection.

Porn is offering endless and effortless supply of arousing material that real life could never compare to, which makes it hard to resist for most people who are looking for a quick release of their physical needs.

 

News flash: your brain doesn’t know the difference. You’re fantasizing about having real sex, imagining that dudes dick is yours. It’s why they do POV. Your brain thinks you have an unlimited selection of females to perform whatever sexual act you want.

You’re thinking in terms of how our sexuality is meant to be. Just because it’s not what our biology intended doesn’t mean it doesn’t want it, because again, it doesn’t know the difference.

 

I believe this is just hairsplitting but I disagree. What our brain wants isn't what our biology wants, which is what you said. Our brain wants dopamine to trigger a biological response. Our biology wants dopamine from a real person to trigger that response. Our brain just wants dopamine, no matter if fake or real.

 

Sounds like we’re just talking semantics. If you ask me your brain is part of your biology. To use more precise language, I think what OP meant was: sexual drive/ pleasure was only intended as a means to promote intercourse in order to reproduce, rather than be abused through porn. I don’t think it’s accurate to say porn goes against our biology, more accurate would be to say it goes against the intentions of our biology.

 

Again, I see it more complex than that. The result of watching porn goes against our biology, meaning having a physical reaction without it being triggered by a physical interaction with a real person. But yes, simply being visually triggered by naked people, be it on the screen or physically in front of you, is equally a natural biological response. But that again only goes for certain genres of porn, that are focused on people/bodies, not specific actions.

 

What I intended to highlight with my initial comment was that porn is highly attractive to our biology. Which contrasts the term “against.” That’s all. We’re all on the same page here.

 

I understand, and I just wanted to draw attention to the distinction of visual and physical, visually it might be attractive to our biology, but physically it does go against our biology. But my brain usually tends to overcomplicate things, so sorry for the confusion.