Interesting: Is Porn Really, Really Bad For You?

I'm sort of thinking this guy is right.

Without wishing to overshare, there are several things I notice about porn use. By other people, not me.

For one thing, it's a gigantic waste of time. The "clicking" syndrome he talks about -- hunting around for a better clip -- turns what should be a ten minute thing into something than can take an hour or more.

I've mentioned that I had a friend who just gave up porn, despite not having any sort of a steady sex life. "Well," I asked, "what do you do when you just have to knock one out?"

"I do what I used to do," he said. "I use my brain. I hit the highlight reel. The spank bank."

"Doesn't that take a long time, given that you've gotten accustomed to porn?"

"It did at first. Now it takes what it used to take. Five, ten minutes."

Hmm. The chief benefit of porn was -- used to be -- efficiency. You have a physical urge that's annoying you, you throw on some dirty clip and take care of it, pronto.

But I'm personally finding the "pronto" is missing. It's kind of eating into the most important time in my life, the time I set aside for the things that really matter (such as watching a lot of TV).

The other problem, often pushed, is desensitization. I never believed this one, because I was always pretty horny, but as I get older, I think there's something to it.

I think I'm going to try this. I'm going to go a month porn-free. This really is a gigantic waste of time for what is, literally, not metaphorically, a lot of masturbation.

Now where do I get a monkey. Because monkeys are now deeply rutted into my sexual imagination. If there's no monkey, I'm just not that into it.

Via Hot Air.

posted by Ace at 03:32 PM

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