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question everything

(47,537 posts)
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 04:30 PM Apr 2016

Blame it on Porn

Time magazine has its cover story about porn. About how young boys, after downloading porn to their heart desire can not perform with the real thing:

Noah Church is a 26-year-old part-time wildland firefighter in Portland, Ore. When he was 9, he found naked pictures on the Internet. He learned how to download explicit videos. When he was 15, streaming videos arrived, and he watched those. Often. Several times a day, doing that which people often do while watching that genre by themselves.

(snip)

In his senior year of high school, he had an opportunity to have actual sex, with a real partner. He was attracted to her and she to him, as demonstrated by the fact that she was naked in her bedroom in front of him. But his body didn’t seem to be interested. “There was a disconnect between what I wanted in my mind and how my body reacted,” he says. He simply couldn’t get the necessary hydraulics going.

He put it down to first-timers’ nerves, but six years went by, and no matter which woman he was with, his body was no more cooperative. It responded only to the sight of porn. Church came to believe that his adolescent Internet indulgence had somehow caused his problems and that he had what some are calling porn-induced erectile dysfunction (PIED).

More..

http://time.com/4277510/porn-and-the-threat-to-virility/

(the site claims that one has to be a subscriber to read..)

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Blame it on Porn (Original Post) question everything Apr 2016 OP
Wow, they want you to PAY for this? nt bemildred Apr 2016 #1
TANSTAAFL. hobbit709 Apr 2016 #2
That's not lunch. bemildred Apr 2016 #3
Haven't read the story myself, behond what I posted question everything Apr 2016 #6
Yeah, I do that with WSJ sometimes. bemildred Apr 2016 #8
the WSJ has the worst porn, by far Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #16
LOL. bemildred Apr 2016 #20
This message was self-deleted by its author Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #19
"Your hands will grow hair on the palms, and everybody will know!" nt bemildred Apr 2016 #21
This message was self-deleted by its author Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #25
Yeah, they do, but I think we should stop lying to our children to get them to do what we want. bemildred Apr 2016 #29
This message was self-deleted by its author Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #31
Kinda similar to the movie "Jon Don." Arugula Latte Apr 2016 #4
I came across this while doing research on addiction and the brain. GreenEyedLefty Apr 2016 #5
Sounds like a mental problem. He needs more practice. B Calm Apr 2016 #7
He needs to slack off for a day or two. bemildred Apr 2016 #9
You know, you could archive or pastebin the article so we aren't playing Fund the Clickbait and... Shandris Apr 2016 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #15
Exactly. bemildred Apr 2016 #22
Just a Suggestion Noah: Combine the Porn With the Naked Woman in Bed Stallion Apr 2016 #11
It's not the porn. It's the masturbation. Xithras Apr 2016 #12
Some of this may be due to our ham-fisted (so to speak) linguistic approach to euphemism Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #14
"If you keep doing that, you'll go blind!"` name not needed Apr 2016 #17
... Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #18
Funny, they warned me that marijuana smoking was going to do the exact same thing. Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #13
I can see this happening...feel bad for todays youth having access to this pandoras box Demonaut Apr 2016 #23
Pandora's what? Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #28
Pandora's Box ProudToBeBlueInRhody Apr 2016 #30
Quite possibly Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #32
Mom to trumad...open the bathroom door!!!!! trumad Apr 2016 #24
And I tell you what, it was a pain to lug the VHS machine and 20" zenith into the can each time Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #27
That's why people watch porn when they have sex. Problem solvers. WhaTHellsgoingonhere Apr 2016 #26
Unlikely KiethKilbourne Apr 2016 #33

bemildred

(90,061 posts)
8. Yeah, I do that with WSJ sometimes.
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 04:47 PM
Apr 2016

They give you a bit of the story, so I link for people who want to look further.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
16. the WSJ has the worst porn, by far
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 05:37 PM
Apr 2016

Those pencil sketches of george will in thigh high leather boots do nothing for me.

bemildred

(90,061 posts)
20. LOL.
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 06:30 PM
Apr 2016

We have food porn and gun porn and porn porn, why not money porn, consumption porn, isn't that Trump in spades?

Response to bemildred (Reply #1)

Response to bemildred (Reply #21)

bemildred

(90,061 posts)
29. Yeah, they do, but I think we should stop lying to our children to get them to do what we want.
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 07:04 PM
Apr 2016

It sets a really bad example.

Response to bemildred (Reply #29)

bemildred

(90,061 posts)
9. He needs to slack off for a day or two.
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 04:49 PM
Apr 2016

Although you are right, it has it's own ideas. A few more tries and it's bound to work.

 

Shandris

(3,447 posts)
10. You know, you could archive or pastebin the article so we aren't playing Fund the Clickbait and...
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 05:03 PM
Apr 2016

...Big Brother Loves Me just to read the article. The archive is nicer because it leaves pics and stuff intact, but even the pastebin is good enough for just the words.

Response to Shandris (Reply #10)

bemildred

(90,061 posts)
22. Exactly.
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 06:39 PM
Apr 2016

It is one thing to put up with propaganda and marketing crap, and quite another to be expected to pay for it. If they want to bullshit us, they can at least pay for it themselves.

Xithras

(16,191 posts)
12. It's not the porn. It's the masturbation.
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 05:08 PM
Apr 2016

It's similar to the Grip of Death. The body has been trained to respond to a particular kind of stimulation, making other less familiar types of stimulation less effective. The solution, like GoD, is to "retrain" the body. No sex, including masturbation or porn, for a month or two. That resets everything and usually fixes the problem.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
14. Some of this may be due to our ham-fisted (so to speak) linguistic approach to euphemism
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 05:33 PM
Apr 2016

"Son, choking the chicken, spanking the monkey... These are metaphors, boy!"

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
13. Funny, they warned me that marijuana smoking was going to do the exact same thing.
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 05:11 PM
Apr 2016

Odd, neither one had anything remotely resembling the scare-mongering effects I was warned about.

 

trumad

(41,692 posts)
24. Mom to trumad...open the bathroom door!!!!!
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 06:44 PM
Apr 2016

What are you doing in there?

trumad: I'M GOING BLIND!

RIP Robin Williams.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
27. And I tell you what, it was a pain to lug the VHS machine and 20" zenith into the can each time
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 06:52 PM
Apr 2016

Thank god for wifi and ipads!

KiethKilbourne

(4 posts)
33. Unlikely
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 09:35 AM
Apr 2016

I don't belive this for a second. Think how many guys start their sex life on sites like Pornhub.com and https://www.fapshows.com alone and then gets older and start their sex life with a partner. We all did that and I think 99% of all men did that and this is the first time I even heard of such an example.

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