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Re:EARN IT Act Remains a Threat to Liberty, Security, & Safe... by anonymouskimmer on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:23PM (#35817949)
When your partner can't get it up because they've been abusing porn, you're incentivized to not like it just for personal reasons. And that's without even touching the fact that your partner is getting off to images of someone else.

There's nothing "liberal" about porn. Porn is neither conservative nor liberal, it is libertine.

Re:EARN IT Act Remains a Threat to Liberty, Security, & Safe... by kodah on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:31PM (#35818092)
I think a lot of people blame porn for erectile dysfunction, but that's far from a leading cause: https://www.samhealth.org/about-samaritan/news-search/2022/0... and https://www.goodrx.com/conditions/erectile-dysfunction/top-1...

I guess this is also a good time for vulnerability since we're talking patriarchy. I've had periods of erectile dysfunction and they almost always overlapped with periods of intense stress or depression. Other times it had to do with my diet. That didn't stop some people at the time bringing up my porn use, which feels really nasty and humiliating when it happens to you.

That isn't to say there aren't men who desensitize themselves, but I suspect that's more prevalent in young men and more of a minority in general. It is a provocative thing to bring up in conversation.

Re:EARN IT Act Remains a Threat to Liberty, Security, & Safe... by anonymouskimmer on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:38PM (#35818196)
Fine, then "can't last as long", or "isn't as in to it".
Re:EARN IT Act Remains a Threat to Liberty, Security, & Safe... by kodah on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:42PM (#35818284)
I just find all of this really problematic, but maybe that's just me. I'd never make these assumptions or say these things to a woman.
Re:EARN IT Act Remains a Threat to Liberty, Security, & Safe... by dragonwriter on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:24PM (#35817968)
> When your partner can’t get it up because they’ve been abusing porn, you’re incentivized to not like it just for personal reasons.

If your partner prefers interacting with porn to doing so with you, the porn use is a symptom, not the source of the problem.

Re:EARN IT Act Remains a Threat to Liberty, Security, & Safe... by anonymouskimmer on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:25PM (#35817991)
Maybe at first, but just like alcohol or any other addiction it becomes its own problem over time.
Re:EARN IT Act Remains a Threat to Liberty, Security, & Safe... by account42 on Monday May 08, 2023 @05:10AM (#35859604)
Anything enjoyable (and many things that are not even that) can be addicting and in some cases enought to be a problem. That however is not an argument for banning it altogether or that it is morally unacceptable.

And most additictions really are just a symptom for other problems.

Re:EARN IT Act Remains a Threat to Liberty, Security, & Safe... by LorenPechtel on Thursday May 04, 2023 @01:45PM (#35819344)
I strongly suspect the actual relationship is the other way around--it's a problem with their relationship that drove them to porn.
Re:EARN IT Act Remains a Threat to Liberty, Security, & Safe... by anonymouskimmer on Thursday May 04, 2023 @02:13PM (#35819754)
Maybe for some, but for people who start with porn before they ever have a relationship, this cannot be the case. At least not entirely.