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 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 Cheesecat wrote:

 Corpsesarefun wrote:
Please don't tell me that people believe porn addiction is a thing.

While you can pretty much become addicted to anything (like chap-stick addiction is a real thing) I have to agree that people with "porn addiction" are probably people experiencing a lack of sexual satisfaction or a good relationship.

Just a small thing. There is no such this as porn "addiction" there is however compulsion. Addiction is physical, but you can have a compulsive behavior around anything if you have a compulsive personality. Addiction for these things is a misnomer.

Thank you for clarifying there, I was struggling to think of the correct word to use in place of addiction in that context but I was sure that there was one.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 Cheesecat wrote:

 Corpsesarefun wrote:
Please don't tell me that people believe porn addiction is a thing.

While you can pretty much become addicted to anything (like chap-stick addiction is a real thing) I have to agree that people with "porn addiction" are probably people experiencing a lack of sexual satisfaction or a good relationship.

Just a small thing. There is no such this as porn "addiction" there is however compulsion. Addiction is physical, but you can have a compulsive behavior around anything if you have a compulsive personality. Addiction for these things is a misnomer.

Definition of addiction as per The American Society for Addiction Medicine:

Addiction is the continued repetition of a behavior despite adverse consequences,[1] or a neurological impairment leading to such behaviors.

Besides that, I would argue that porn is a physical addiction, you're not addicted to the pornography itself, you're addicted to the resultant sexual arousal, and/or the accompanying autoerotic stimulation.

You don't physically require pornography to masturbate, a heroin addict does physically require heroin to shoot up.

You may have had a high libido with minimal extra-mastabatory activities (like many posters here I assume) which lead you to regularly watch porn, but to say that you were a victim of pornography addiction is ridiculous.

 Corpsesarefun wrote:
You don't physically require pornography to masturbate, a heroin addict does physically require heroin to shoot up.

You may have had a high libido with minimal extra-mastabatory activities (like many posters here I assume) which lead you to regularly watch porn, but to say that you were a victim of pornography addiction is ridiculous.

As long as you're not castrated, all you need is your hand .

I think physical addictions means addictions that have withdrawal symptoms like headaches, hallucinations, etc so stuff like alcohol, caffeine, tobacco, heroine, etc but not weed and porn as there is no harsh withdrawal symptoms from them (as far as I'm aware).

 Cheesecat wrote:
I think physical addictions means addictions that have withdrawal symptoms like headaches, hallucinations, etc so stuff like alcohol, tobacco, heroine, etc but not weed as there is no harsh withdrawal symptoms from pit (as far as I'm aware).

Well, you stop going blind .

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 Elemental wrote:

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

People pay for porn in the age of the internet?

Like in any field, I want to reward & encourage producers that put out quality material and treat their employees decently.

It's a million dollar industry!

So? The "industry" isn't a monolithic block, and not all porn is the same. Speaking only for myself, I find the stuff that has become the "standard" to be deeply unpleasant.

 Elemental wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 Elemental wrote:

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

People pay for porn in the age of the internet?

Like in any field, I want to reward & encourage producers that put out quality material and treat their employees decently.

It's a million dollar industry!

So? The "industry" isn't a monolithic block, and not all porn is the same. Speaking only for myself, I find the stuff that has become the "standard" to be deeply unpleasant.

Joke .

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

Joke .

Fair enough.

Saving Ryan's Privates wrote:*Guy looks through binoculars*

God dammit! He's spanking on the field again, horny SOB's gonna get himself killed!

Don't go sarge! He's gone, his eyes are rolling into the back of his head!

I have to, he'd do the same for me...

That's real brave of you sar..

It isn't like that, it's... I mean he said he'd give me a reach around when we get back to base. Who else is gonna do it? YOU? With those filthy hands?

Chemical drugs can have real withdrawal symptoms, there's a chemical addiction in your body as well as psychological. But porn addiction? Give me a break. That just sounds like a lack of self control and nothing more. I have little sympathy for gambling addiction either, as people ruin themselves and claim it as illness. Unless you actually suffer mental illness that impairs your ability to make decisions I don't have sympathy, and if you are mentally I'll then the porn addiction or similar is a symptom of a greater problem, not an illness in itself.

That said, the advert is just ridiculous, going on about church and some sort of war. They aren't talking about porn addiction, but any amount of use of porn at all, it is coming from Mormons and their puritan values after all. It's alarmist nonsense and incredibly smug in claiming that they can save people from their evil addictions because they are so wholesome in themselves. Ugh.

Most of the time when a religious busybody sticks their nose in to 'intervene' in someone else's life, it's entirely unnecessary, they aren't addicted or in need of help. You're just being a judgmental ass pushing your religious values onto others.

This all funny for you guys, ha ha ha. What they got wrong was it was made at BYU-I the “I” stands for Idaho, Rexburg Idaho to be exact. Rexburg is 20ish minutes from where I live. These people are nuts and normally I just ignore the craziness. Its only until they bring the spotlight of the rest of the world on to my sleepy little town that I become angry at them. See Idaho and more importantly south eastern Idaho has a lot of Mormons, more Mormons per capita then Utah. So Mormon weirdness is well normal. If our nations birthday falls on a Sunday. Sorry we celebrate it on the Monday. Small stuff like that. O and our bars are only open till 1am. It sucks but in my younger years I learned quickly over baring religiosity breeds rebellious girls. Hot wholesome Mormon girls who are mad at their dads.

So if I stop masturbating I will end up playing pool with four 3's and a 5?

 Howard A Treesong wrote:

Most of the time when a religious busybody sticks their nose in to 'intervene' in someone else's life, it's entirely unnecessary, they aren't addicted or in need of help. You're just being a judgmental ass pushing your religious values onto others.

The thing is those people often genuinely believe that they are helping.

 Cheesecat wrote:
I think physical addictions means addictions that have withdrawal symptoms like headaches, hallucinations, etc so stuff like alcohol, caffeine, tobacco, heroine, etc but not weed and porn as there is no harsh withdrawal symptoms from them (as far as I'm aware).

I assure you there are, it was a long time before I was able to function normally (sexually speaking) again after I cut pornography out of my life... okay, its not quite 'withdrawal' so much as it is conditioned response, but still.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
1: If My roommates get involve in my life, screw em
2: I look at porn andd still go to church
3: Porn is not my enemy, it is my friend, for 11.95 a month

People pay for porn in the age of the internet?

Perhaps his internet bill is 11.95 per month??

chaos0xomega wrote:

 Corpsesarefun wrote:
Please don't tell me that people believe porn addiction is a thing.

As someone who suffered through it all through my final year of college, I can tell you that yes, it very much is a thing, and it has a serious affect on peoples lives.

Still though, this commercial is ridiculous.

Too true. I know of a few marriages that broke apart because the husband could not get away from watching that trash. One of them told me it wasn't until he lost his wife and kids that he realized how addicted he was. He ended up going into therapy to try to control his veiwing of the stuff.

Read the comments on the video. Fething comedy gold.

This is excellent for Christian men, young and old. I'm Catholic, a former Protestant, and this speaks to anyone of Faith who faces down this terrible, strong and growing evil

Sounds like that could get messy.

Something something face down my growing evil.

Cheesecat wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
1: If My roommates get involve in my life, screw em
2: I look at porn andd still go to church
3: Porn is not my enemy, it is my friend, for 11.95 a month

You can get plenty of free porn on xHamster.com and xvideo.com without having to download.

Or with a free Pornhub account, you can download it

Manchu wrote:Signs of Porn Addiction:

- poor attendance at church
- darkness in eyes
- spiritual wounds
- hallucinations of fighting in WW2

Well, replace the WW2 stuff with Mechwarrior and 40K, and im fullfilling allof those criteria-provided you go by the mormon version of spiritualy wounded-i.e. not christian, and not going to church. Oh, and enjoying sex outside of wedlock

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Also, it's hilarious how concerned Dakkanauts are about hotsauceman1 paying for pornography.

The Enemy says 'don't get involved, it's not your business.' But you you know that no one should ever pay for pr0n, outside of ISP charges, spare change for electricity, and the kleenex budget.

Its a brotherly thing. We guys know how important porn is, thus we understand the need for a constant, affordable supply



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BTW, is sort of an odd coincidence that i am looking at porn right now isnt it?

Ah well, 3:54 wasted not watching porn....... I had better make up!

The best way to do pr0n is not to pay for it, but to star in it.

 master of ordinance wrote:


Or with a free Pornhub account, you can download it

Well, replace the WW2 stuff with Mechwarrior and 40K, and im fullfilling allof those criteria-provided you go by the mormon version of spiritualy wounded-i.e. not christian, and not going to church. Oh, and enjoying sex outside of wedlock

Its a brotherly thing. We guys know how important porn is, thus we understand the need for a constant, affordable supply

BTW, is sort of an odd coincidence that i am looking at porn right now isnt it?

Ah well, 3:54 wasted not watching porn....... I had better make up!

Dude, seriously too much information.

 Corpsesarefun wrote:

 master of ordinance wrote:


Or with a free Pornhub account, you can download it

Well, replace the WW2 stuff with Mechwarrior and 40K, and im fullfilling allof those criteria-provided you go by the mormon version of spiritualy wounded-i.e. not christian, and not going to church. Oh, and enjoying sex outside of wedlock

Its a brotherly thing. We guys know how important porn is, thus we understand the need for a constant, affordable supply

BTW, is sort of an odd coincidence that i am looking at porn right now isnt it?

Ah well, 3:54 wasted not watching porn....... I had better make up!

Dude, seriously too much information.

sorry, but i could not resist that last bit
No, too much information is finding out what tubgirl is.....
I thank the goddess daily that i do not know


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p.s., i was joking about the whole watching porn thing.

It's only a joke if it's funny.

If you want to know how to do low brow humour successfully, see Kronk.

 BaronIveagh wrote:
The best way to do pr0n is not to pay for it, but to star in it.

What looks fun on the camera isn't necessarily the best way to have sex.

 Lint wrote:
So if I stop masturbating I will end up playing pool with four 3's and a 5?

 Medium of Death wrote:
I mean he said he'd give me a reach around when we get back to base.

I like how at the end of the vid, they're surrounded by all these girls -- but they really only have eyes for each other.

#BrokebackBYU

 Cheesecat wrote:

 BaronIveagh wrote:
The best way to do pr0n is not to pay for it, but to star in it.

What looks fun on the camera isn't necessarily the best way to have sex.

True, but if you're going to be involved with pr0n, better to be starring in than just watching.

This reminds me of when my ROTC detachment got a briefing on the "Masturbation epidemic in the Military".

Nobody could keep a straight face through it.

 Corpsesarefun wrote:
You don't physically require pornography to masturbate, a heroin addict does physically require heroin to shoot up.

And, as a result, not potentially die.

Relapse wrote:

Too true. I know of a few marriages that broke apart because the husband could not get away from watching that trash. One of them told me it wasn't until he lost his wife and kids that he realized how addicted he was. He ended up going into therapy to try to control his veiwing of the stuff.

I assume these marriages all featured Mormons.


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Relapse wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:

 Corpsesarefun wrote:
Please don't tell me that people believe porn addiction is a thing.

As someone who suffered through it all through my final year of college, I can tell you that yes, it very much is a thing, and it has a serious affect on peoples lives.

Still though, this commercial is ridiculous.

Too true. I know of a few marriages that broke apart because the husband could not get away from watching that trash. One of them told me it wasn't until he lost his wife and kids that he realized how addicted he was. He ended up going into therapy to try to control his veiwing of the stuff.

Those marriages must have had other problems because there's no such thing as being addicted to porn.

Its like video games, people may get addicted to the feelings associated with them but there not actually addicted to the pixels.

Also: Are you calling porn trash? What the is this the 1800's or something?