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[NSFW] How has porn affected your life?

Asked by prolificus (6583points) March 16th, 2010 from iPhone

This question is related to a question I asked earlier: How does masturbation affect a romantic relationship?

My brother introduced me to porn before I was a teenager. I’ve had a tumultuous relationship with it ever since then. In many ways, I wish I had never encountered the world of pornography. Yet, I know I’ve learned a few things about myself and about sex because of it.

How has porn positively and negatively affected your internal life? How has it affected the way you relate to others? To your lover?

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MrGV's avatar

It’s stress relieving for many lol

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

I don’t take it seriously. It’s interesting sometimes, other times it’s a quick start up to masturbation. It hasn’t affected me negatively and has provided for some cool conversation starters like ‘I saw this girl put her two fists inside this other girl and was like ‘whaaa’?’

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

I’m cold all the time.

Michael_Huntington's avatar

Just gives me something to do when there’s nothing to do.

CMaz's avatar

Tumultuously.

“Yet, I know I’ve learned a few things about myself and about sex because of it.”
That is a cop out.

There is no positive to porn, at a social level. Just makes it easier to jerk off. Anything more and you are lying to yourself. Over and over again.

gailcalled's avatar

About the same way as thinking of driving in the Indy 500 has.

prolificus's avatar

@ChazMaz – why are you dogging me?! growls at you

CMaz's avatar

@prolificus – I am sorry. I thought you wanted an honest answer? :-)

prolificus's avatar

@ChazMaz – honest, yes. Dogging, no.

deni's avatar

It hasn’t. Except for giving me unrealistic expectations about sex when I was younger. I quit watching long ago and I now think porn is gross. The people in it disgust me. Thats all.

CMaz's avatar

Just trying to keep it real.

elenuial's avatar

Porn is to sex as Disney movies are to love.

tinyfaery's avatar

It hasn’t.

Silhouette's avatar

Linda Lovelace taught me things every girl should know.

wundayatta's avatar

Porn is an aid to masturbation for me. I don’t use it much any more. I’ve been using my imagination, lately.

Porn kept me company when my wife wouldn’t. Now my wife is keeping me company more often, so I don’t turn to masturbation so often.

I would say that porn is pretty far down on the list of things that have affected my life.

ucme's avatar

It comes & it goes.Kind of in one orifice & out the other.

shadling21's avatar

Porn has affected the expectations that my boyfriend and I both had about a sexual relationship. While it’s had positive effects (making us open-minded to certain activities), it’s also had negative one. The site www.makelovenotporn.com covers some of the misinformation that affected us.

majorrich's avatar

Recent porn has been very good about clearly showing a condom in use. In a twisted, perverse way they can said to be educational (if unrealistic) training films. It has a potential to put unrealistic expectations when it comes to intercourse in kids heads, and kind of cheapens it a bit. (ok a lot) Where do all these good looking women come from?! and are all men that large?

whatthefluther's avatar

It provides some amusement and has a bit of entertainment value, altho I don’t care for current trends. It offers absolutely nothing to one’s understanding of relationships and offers little in regards to sex education as it is predominately sexist and showcases domination. See ya…..Gary/wtfr

Cruiser's avatar

I can never look at a bar stool the same way thanks to porn!

deni's avatar

@shadling21 that website is fucking awesome!

CMaz's avatar

I cant look at anyhing the same way again.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

I can’t stop laughing :D

Scooby's avatar

It was a huge part of my teens as most growing lads would pass it around, sort of educational material to some extent back then… I don’t bother much with it at all now maybe the odd time when those same lads pop round for a drink :-/
Now we just laugh about it…… ;-)

Just_Justine's avatar

It has taught me a lot. Also a lot I’d rather not have known.

OpryLeigh's avatar

It is something that I check out every once in a while, soometimes with my boyfriend and sometimes alone but I havn’t used it enough for it to have much of an impact on my life.

phil196662's avatar

I never was able to share porn with any woman, then I met the wife and she took to it like a duck

janbb's avatar

No relationship at all.

Berserker's avatar

I don’t think it really has. Porn is fun and flashy but it’s also extremely shallow and really has nothing to do with real life sex, although it unfortunately seems to have a strong influence on many people, especially younger folks who haven’t had any experiences and use pr0nz as basis.
I have seen the distinct difference though, porn is almost retarded in that respect.

judochop's avatar

I once saw a porn being shot, at a bar, on a pool table before they opened. I worked there, we were allowed to come watch. It was the most boring and dry thing I have ever seen. Zero emotion! I could have been watching someone hammer a nail in to a piece of plywood or tie a showlace in slow motion. Now whenever I see porn, sometimes I explore it on my phone, I just kind of go, meh…She’s hot or he’s hot or wow thats big or whatever…Porn might make the blood flow to certain areas a little faster than my hand can but really it does nothing for me. It lacks emotion of any kind.

Fenris's avatar

Romantic, realistic porn is a big thing nowadays.

It’s there for me when my SAD or autism act up. It’s fun to make too. I have a friend with a wife, kid, and white picket fence that makes some freaky hentai, and he’s better off than me. some of it is so beautiful or twisted that it’s downright art.

I think my parents did me a huge favor when they taught me that porn is a caricature of human sexuality and not a representation when I was younger.

YARNLADY's avatar

I saw a couple of pornographic pictures and I found it less interesting than watching dogs in my yard. I don’t get any kind of feeling from it, other than it’s a waste of time.

Naked_Homer's avatar

Some porn, the stuff based on loving relationships, for me, did help me in my relationship. I was able to use it as a release and not give up working on the problems with my ex wife and seek outside assistance.

Violet's avatar

How has porn affected your life?
It has taught me different positions, than I use when having sex. But that’s about it
How has porn positively and negatively affected your internal life?
What do you mean by ‘internal life’?
How has it affected the way you relate to others?
It in no way affects the way I relate to others.
To your lover?
Only in bed

phil196662's avatar

@violet; we tend to share many of the same_things… the wife and I have found _more positions, new idea’s for kinky toys and more rope bondage techniques as well as senerio ideas that make it even more _exciting and with more fright and surprise

Smashley's avatar

Porn helped me from ruining many a good pair of knickers in high school, enhanced a couple relationships sexually, damaged another one, and currently acts as a decent boredom-killer when I’m alone, and sexy together time when I’m with my lady. My personal experiences with the stuff has been arousing, amusing, interesting, occasionally boring, and enlightening. Who knew I would get turned on by the stuff I do? How would I even know it if I didn’t have the ability to test these things in a such a safe way? The only bad interactions I’ve had with porn have involved other people’s opinions of it. My last ex had a crazy hatred for the stuff (I tried to reconcile the two, but I suspect she had too many insecurity and body issues deeply embedded to talk as candidly as we should have,) and my refusal to abide by a silly commandment did significant damage to our intimacy, I believe (though I accept responsibility for using porn secretly rather than forcing the issue, which was admittedly silly of me.) I always bit my tongue when she balled me out for it. I wanted so badly to play the “I know for a fact that your oh-so-perfect-father looks at porn” card, but I never did. I thought it might come off as punitive and a daddy’s girl like her didn’t need childhood illusions shattered. Oy. What a life.

I’m just glad that I’m with someone now who I can actually talk to about these things, and thankfully, she thinks exactly like I do. Porn-on!

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