Porn Experiement

So far I haven’t noticed any difference from watching porn. I can still get hard without it just fine. My brain doesn’t hurt and my communication skills are still up to par. I do only watch when I do my workouts which lasts about an hour 5 days a week. The two rest days seem to be enough for my brain to recover. Also, I do some edging on the weekends which allows me to get hard without using or thinking of any kind of pornography.

In fact, i’m so tired of watching porn. It was never appealing to me and is boring when watching for an hour straight, especially when I have the mindset that I am literally watching other people have sex. There is nothing special about it.

Porn is good when used strategically and for those who do not have brain problems. For example, those who have issues with getting instant gratification and addiction. Once you get yourself right mentally, there is absolutely no reason why you should have problems with porn and there is absolutely no reason why one would watch it for hours. It’s boring. Porn only affects underlying issues that individuals have.

Porn isn’t the problem, the individuals that are addicted are the problem. This is my current analysis. I will report back if my findings change.

So heroine isn’t the problem, it’s the people that use it that have a problem. I’ll make a note of that.

Not enough data my friend. There are many other factor that you need to take into account for an experiment. For example, think about how many men live under severe stress, working 2 jobs. No time to interact, not enough money to spend on entertainment. But as any normal human being, has necessity and need to release. Porn is there to supply that lack of. BUT, it becomes a spiral down out of control. A mentioned before, the individual desensitize after a while leading to multiple categories of porn. Hardcore and more hardcore, to the point that the level of sodomy and perversion passes a normal interaction with a real woman, rendering a real encounter completely useless.

Think about how many men have been traumatized by multiple types of random experiences in life that could make it harder for them to learn how to interact and socialize, but never made it because porn was the escape and they ended up trapped in that world.

How many kids have been wrongly raised on SSRI drugs and ADHD drugs that have altered their brain chemistry and make them more prone to stay in the basement watching porn and masturbating.

Porn is bad and wrong in my opinion. Just like cellphones have become evil these days. The world was a much better place without computers, cellphones, porn, social media. Perhaps I shouldn’t put porn mixed in the same category with those other things, but the impact in society is pure and simply negative. Nothing positive out of it. Some will claim it could help couples, true, but there is no way to control it. In the same way extasy was created for couples, and look how it ended on the streets like a plague.

I think there’s more to it than someone deciding to “see what this porn stuff is all about”. Someone who tries marijuana for the first time, or heroin, may walk away thinking hmmm, nothing to see here. However, for the one who is pleasure seeking shall find it…and guess what…it’s free. As long as you have time, you don’t need a dime.

So maybe you’re on to something in terms of the trigger, but it is definitely the pleasure that is addictive. I don’t think that the trigger has to be anything more elaborate than curiosity.

I’m gonna go watch some right now. For science.

And I’m back, results are in, instant massive erection. :D

Joking aside, I’ve looked at as much vag online as anybody. My avatar pic isn’t a coincidence. There’s nothing wrong with it. And except for the hair that started growing on my palms, I love it.

Same :)

I’ve been a daily “user” of porn since I was 13, going on 22 years now.

Maybe it’s because I’ve always gravitated towards amateur, homemade content featuring real people, not airbrushed, unrealistic porn stars, but I have no problems getting hard, staying hard, or having fun with my wife. I don’t compulsively watch hours on end, though I admit I enjoy a good ~20min edging session before I finally ejaculate when I’m masturbating.
It really helped me when I was younger to not be so “thirsty”, as well as to develop my lasting ability during actual sex.

On the other hand, if I skip more than a day(any sexual activity be it porn+masturbation, or sex), I find that my libido actually decreases and my erections aren’t as strong.

I’m a big believer in “use it or lose it” when it comes to my penis.

My wife and I enjoy watching porn together as part of our foreplay before sex. Not every time, but it is a lot of fun sometimes. It helps us get “in the mood” after a long day, and is a great way to open up discussions about various interests, or trying new things.

Wow, so I have been pretty much completely off the porn I used to watch every day, or most days, for over 5 1/2 weeks now and it is easier than I thought it would be. I’m not trying to brag here. I just didn’t realize it has been that long, I thought yesterday “hmmmm I think 3-4 weeks its been” but reading my post from 3/26 here its been longer!

I’ve 100% quit chat rooms. All gone, done. I haven’t even wanted to get on to delete my accounts. I feel like I’ll browse and look at something I don’t want to anymore. No Pornhub or xvideos or xhamster or anything. Anything that’s mainstream like that is out of my life.

I’ve been deleting massive amounts of porn I’ve recorded and downloaded over the years too. Most I’ve never even watched. Its like I was archiving porno for what reason I don’t know. Its hot and I’d watch it later? But with so much new stuff online, live, right now, out there to watch, why watch old stuff? I think my behavior for years and years now has been ridiculous and pretty wasteful. I’m not down on myself for this, just kind of like “what was I thinking and why did I do all of this for so long??”

It is near impossible to avoid erotica, though. Its in normal movies and its just out there in a lot of what we normally consume. My wife loves erotica, some of it, and we watch some sexy things from time to time. But she’s not into porn much at all, we’ve watched it a handful of times over the last 20 or so years, and its really just a me-thing. So I’m not worried about a “relapse” because I saw some hot shit on TV or anything like that. I’ve been at this for too long, porno, that is, to treat it like its new.

Crisis moments with my wife are pretty much gone now! I feel a relaxing confidence with her and my erections are steely and like rock with her, just like they always used to be. We’ve had intercourse several times since I last posted and things are fun and cool again with us :) I can’t tell y’all how scary it was, the need, the urge to “perform” and do her that very second. I read that men who’ve been intimate with their wives (or female partners) and suddenly needed to conceive and work sex on a schedule for ovulation were unable to get hard because of the pressure of performing. That clicked with me, similar kind of thing (although no need to conceive and its biologically impossible for her now anyway). I used to think of sex with her and get nervous and panic during the day alone. Now when I think of it I dream of the good times and the recent moments we’ve shared again and I have optimism, excitement and desire. A smile is on my face through this.

Did porn desensitize me? No I don’t think so. But it made getting off easy. I didn’t have to perform for the models on screen; I could just be passive and enjoy my cock and them. About a week after I quit porn on 3/22/2021 I was masturbating without it and it was way more fun than it usually is. More inventive, more sensitivity, more arousal. I play with myself through feeling not based on a screen and when arousal starts to peak I go for it with an orgasm. I feel like I did when I was young with no porn at all: just me, alone, my body and my erection, playing and playing and getting off at the end. During sex with my wife the last couple weeks I’ve been uncontrollably saying to her “I feel so good” as we’re doing it. I’ve never told her anything like this before nor have I been compelled to blurt this out while my cock is inside of her and, well, it feels so good. But I feel like this phrase is shooting out of me, like everything inside me feels good—my brain feels good.

I’m really thinking that porn is terrible stuff. Its just a toxic kind of thing, an entity, that preys on women and men (and trans people and all in between) alike. To those on this thread experimenting with porn to see if they can handle it, you can handle it. We can all handle it. Its designed perfectly for us to be into it and consume it. While on it it is quite hard to see what’s wrong with it, and with its user. I’ve never imagined I could be off porn for almost 6 weeks, its the longest I’ve been off it in my life and I’ve been consuming porn for almost 30 years. 30 years. It hasn’t been daily, but its been close enough. During the day now I don’t feel the urge or even slight want to look at it. It is a strange feeling.

So, in my “porn experiment” I quit porn to see if it made a difference in my life as a whole. Absolutely, without a doubt, quitting it has changed me.

I have always used porn to do my PE; there have been times when I used it it get off. I never really put thought to much into what it could be doing to me. Some arguments made here are making me reconsider using it. Perhaps I could just revisit my past sexual experiences to get me aroused to do my PE. I don’t know, something I will have to place more thought into. Great thread.

Find a copy of the movie “Videodrome”, wait until you’re feeling paranoid, and watch it.

[clickety] Criminy, it was made almost forty years ago. Doesn’t matter, it’s worth watching anyway.

OMG!! Videodrome, no doubt for sure!!! Amazing movie, so freaky. The metaphor in the movie is insanely amazing.

I don’t think I am any different than the average porn watcher and yes, I have been at the place where you keep clicking to find that special one that turns you on. And yes, it will become more and more extreme. Discussed this topic years ago with a close friend and his experience is the same. When he broke up with his girlfriend, for other reasons, he even went to a sexologist and it’s a common thing that happens to a certain group of people, predominantly men. I repeat, a certain group. So not all men are sensitive to it.

I even think, if you are so to say mindful about it, you can make sure you stay ‘safe’ and not look for the next freakier than yesterday’s scene. To protect myself, I do not watch porn with men in it anymore, with the occasional exception. And, I do watch the same scene’s over and over again. I do not spend hours watching porn, but during PE I watch it, I love a good lesbian scene or solo scene. I tell myself this it it, and I enjoy it a lot as well. I am doing this for over a year now and have not slipped yet.

The way some of you guys talk about it, its like every porn scene contains a hidden fix, that will have you craving for more. Well, I am strong believer of will power. Loads of people are hooked on Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat whatever, and people blame the algorithms. I blame the people, in the end, its your choice. Don’t blame any1 but yourself. Sure, these apps have a couple of tricks up their sleeves but if you spend 8 hours a day on Facebook or looking at your cell phone in general, you need to check yourself. Your brain will react in a certain way to different stimulation’s, but YOU control your brain, not the other way around.

It’s been nearly two months since this experiment and I still don’t miss the porn.

I hit 8 weeks on Sunday and I feel the same way :)

Rofl i was about to tell the same thing.
No big deal just a couple of rest days and you can wean any hard drug in no time, so easy…

I think there is a big difference betwen “watching porn for an experience” and “discovering your own sexuality with porn since you were young”
In fact the author is not in a position to have such assertions with so little practice.