Porn pandemic

Men account for more than two-thirds of all visitors to pornographic websites. The gender gap is also visible in the frequency of pornographic consumption, meaning that men visit pornographic sites more frequently than women. Children are especially vulnerable to this disease, especially with the high availability of porn that is usually only 2 clicks away on the internet. According to data on pornography use, a child's first exposure to pornography occurs at the age of 11 years old. New study (from the security technology company Bitdefender) claims that children under the age of ten now account for 22% of internet porn consumption among those under the age of 18.

Porn mega sites like P***h*b are among most frequently viewed by children under the age of ten, which is particularly concerning. The sickest part is that one out of every ten viewers to adult video sites is currently under the age of ten. According to a recent research from the NPCC ChildLine, a tenth of 12 to 13-year-olds believe they are hooked to pornography. 10% of 7th graders have reported that they view enough porn to be afraid that they may have an addiction problem and may be unable to stop. Most of those infected by this disease are men, which is why this article will be mainly directed at the male population.

First, let’s demystify what you are doing as a man who watches porn. You sit there, alone in the dark corner of your room while searching for a considerable amount of time for that perfect clip with that woman you wish you could have and that man you wish you could be. Than you start watching some alpha guy demolishing a woman "from your dreams" while you are beating your monkey in front of the screen because that is all the miserable creature like you can do, just sit and watch. You are basically cucking yourself while doing this. The only difference is that you watch a woman that you wish you could have instead of the woman you already have, so it is even more miserable than being a classic cuck. Can you imagine how humiliating and pathetic that is? Your subconscious knows this. That is why you want to be sure that no-one will open the door of your room and see you during those pathetic moments, why you hide, why you clear your browsing history, and why you feel shame and disappointment in yourself when you are done.

If you respect yourself or have any sense of honour, this alone should be enough for you to stop watching porn immediately, but if this isn't enough, think about the negative ways porn affects your life and be honest about it. I say "be honest about it" because people who are unable to quit an addiction begin to rationalize why continuing to consume that addiction is a good thing. You are not fooling anyone when you justify your addiction with "11 unexpected benefits of watching porn" that you read on some mainstream media outlets like dailydot.com. Your only motive is that dopamine "hit" that gets you "high" for a few minutes, like a dog that gets reworded with a cookie after performing. Since watching porn releases huge amounts of dopamine, your brain will down-regulate your hormone receptors over time to maintain state of homeostasis. This will affect your motivation because you will eventually become numb to the normal levels of dopamine release that you get after being productive. So, why waste time studying for the exam when you can watch porn and masturbate for a greater dopamine rush than passing the test would provide? By doing this, you are draining your virility, energy, and motivation on short-lived dopamine hits like a junkie instead of using that energy to build yourself into a better man. Dopamine also surges for novelty, and because of the Coolidge effect, it will diminish over time when you watch the same x-rated movie, and shoot right back up when you watch a different one. This means that, over time, it will take new and even weirder experiences to get you aroused. The same goes for drug addicts who crave stronger drugs to keep getting the same high that they got in the beginning. You will spend more and more time searching for that perfect clip, pushing the boundaries of what arouses you in more extreme directions. Eventually, normal heterosexual sex will not be enough for you, so you will start searching for degenerate stuff while developing weird fetishes like foot fetishes, furries, cuckolding, masochism, and so on. Another problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between watching porn and having sex, so in the span of a shameful afternoon with a few extra tabs open, you can have more sexual partners than your ancestors would have had in their entire lives, according to your brain. This means that you will get used to unrealistic and deviated standards for women that you see as candidates to be your future partner, so you will lose attraction and become blind to the natural beauty of average women who don't look like silicone sex dolls. You basically end up creating an intimate bond with an artificial, fake world, causing you to lose the ability to bond with real people. The way you see women will become unhealthy, your standards will be unrealistic, and in the end, your "Ding Dong" will stop working because of erection problems caused by porn consumption and desensitization.

Because the whole concept of porn is sex without emotional closeness, the underlying hunger always remains unsatisfied. By consuming this content, you could subconsciously brainwash yourself into thinking that sex is the primary bonding agent in relationships, but it isn't. What makes a relationship meaningful, what makes a person feel valued, cared for, treasured, loved, respected... is emotional intimacy, not physical intimacy. Even satisfaction with sexual union between two people who are emotionally close is far greater than in prostitute/client type relationships, so there is really no need to search for other sorts of sexual pleasure or enjoyment (like porn) outside of that relationship. If you are with a girl just to masturbate with someone else’s body and recreate videos of filmed rape, then do whatever you want. But if you care about your girl and you want to have a loving relationship based on mutual respect, then you should keep in mind that any woman that loves you will feel betrayed and disappointed every time you consume porn. Bringing other (even artificial/virtual) strangers into the exclusive realm that should be reserved between the two of you ultimately creates emotional distance and breaks trust, the founding block of every healthy relationship.

Like a drug, porn is used to experience pleasure and escape feelings of stress, low self-esteem, boredom, and frustration. But when the surge of pleasure wears off, the sentiments that the consumer was attempting to avoid resurface stronger than ever, so they are forced to repeat the cycle, developing a full-fledged addiction.