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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:40PM (#27044252)
I thought porn was supposed to make people into sexual deviants, which is it?
Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by proxyon on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @08:42PM (#27044699)
It reduces the novelty of real sex and thus the arousal for it. Lots of studies on this.
Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by jjeaff on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:02AM (#27046044)
A common side effect of porn addiction is that the addict requires more and more extreme situations and stimulus in order to get aroused. So I would say that is sort of turning one into a sexual deviant.
Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by WalnutBoat on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:24AM (#27046505)
Would love to see any sort of actual studies on this, because I'm fairly confident it's false.

The argument at face value is a slippery slope, like "sugar triggers dopamine response in the brain in similar areas as cocaine, so any exposure to sugar eventually leads to someone consuming sugar at all times"

I think it's much more likely that people, in general, imprint sexual preferences around the time that they are becoming sexual in their teens, and that doesn't change much as they age.

Religion in the US tends to focus on "any exposure to porn makes you an addict," which is why I am assuming this is what you're trying to imply. If you want to play a semantics game "porn addiction is defined as" then I'd argue that the same people are -true- porn addicts at the same rate that people are -true- sugar addicts. So, not saying they don't exist, but are a significantly lower number of the population than US religions would have you believe.

Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by Shorel on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:07PM (#27055003)
Your opinion seems to come from the same school of thought that claimed cannabis consumption would surely lead to harder and harder drugs.

In fact, I have experienced the opposite: I do not enjoy any kind of "ugly", much less "extreme" porn. It turns me off.

The simplest kind for me, missionary position, or a girl alone, and that's it.