Porn is a tool. It's a tool that enables men to disable their sex drive... for a set amount of time.

What most people don't realize is how awfully strong the sex drive is and can get given time... since they never let it get to that point.

And I'm saying this after 6weeks of complete abstinence.

It's utterly distracting and frustrating, making it extremely hard to focus and get any work done.

Rubbed one out and I can finally focus again and do some quality programming work.

Should have rubbed one out way sooner than that. The amount of actual work I've missed out due to this is not negligible.

If I'm working on something interesting, something of real tangible value, it's very easy to tune out everything--noise, headache, hunger, hornyness. When I'm grinding out corporate stuff to pay the bills, it's another story. I think our impulses are bursting with wisdom. If the work loses out to the sex drive, how meaningful was the work in the first place?

If sex hasn't taken over pretty much everything else in the list of priorities, it just means that you haven't gotten horny enough.

There a whole wide spectrum between "I'm kind of horny", "I think i'm pretty darn horny" and actually full-blast horny.

In due time, sex will move up to no1 spot in the list of priorities.

And if doesn't, then you're either old (or getting there) or perhaps never had a particularly strong sex-drive to begin with.

Sex-drive is just an insanely powerful force in men, most men have experienced but only a small sliver of how powerful it can get, since they never let it get there, because porn is always there and easily accessible, and you can just rub one out without porn too.

> sex-drive is just an insanely powerful force

So is hunger. So is survival. I don't think you understand what I have written. If your instincts are putting sex at the top of the list, maybe it's time to have sex, with a real person, instead of muting your instincts with soma so you can earn more fiats?

>muting your instincts with soma so you can earn more fiats?

I actually love programming, and when I was refering to "programming work" I was specifically refering to my hobby projects.

> So is hunger. So is survival.

Unlike sex-drive, hunger and survival is very much aligned with what I want. I have to eat so I can keep doing things that I love (programming, creating music, etc)

While sex-drive is a hardwired instinct to procreate and have children - which is very much polar-opposite of my best self interests.

More over I do NOT want to have sex with any of my EXes or bar slobs or hiring prostututes. It just seems "like a good idea" under an altered state of mind. No thank you, very much.

I'm not my body.

And I'm not even my mind half of the time (especially when overloaded with the horny hormones).

do you NEED porn to rub one out? It might be quicker to go that route, but the answer is, you don't (or at least shouldn't).

Obviously porn is not a necessity to rub one out, especially if you're really, really horny. As I was.

However, being in that really horny frame of mind, you really dont want to jerk off at all, or even watch porn frankly - that is not what you want at all. You want to fuck a woman in the most direct-est animalistic raw kind of way.

I wouldn't have rubbed one out without porn, it wouldn't have happened.

Instead you do stupid shit, like start texting all your EX-es, or going on dates with woman you don't really even like or consider booking a prostitutes and all sorts of fucked up stuff...

Being horny, really horny is a trip, an altered state of mind is what i'm going to say.

Porn very effectively brings you back to earth and disables biological imperatives in a quick and enjoyable way (hell, it's not even particularly enjoyable after an extended long abstinence, since it's is waaay to intense).

Porn is definitely easy to abuse for some people, but it doesn't mean it's all bad, it is extremely useful tool.

How is pornography destroying America? And why only America and not also Canada or the UK?

I would assume it's affecting most countries with high speed internet. I just chose not to opine on those countries since I don't live in them and am less informed. You can view this comment I made for why porn is dangerous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30443056

We get it, you're LDS, but please don't push your unsolicited religious beliefs onto others.