It can be used in healthy ways, to explore your own preferences and fetishes, for relaxation, to learn your partner’s desires, you name it.
But as with everything the dose makes the poison. When your thoughts are permanently around your next chance to watch porn, you search (and probably find) ways to watch in public/inappropriate settings, … Then you have a problem.
Masturbating is healthy, so who told you otherwise?
It gets problematic when you have health issues or social problems due to porn or if you neglect other parts of your life.
It’s a way healthier addiction than a drug addiction though. Smoking, drinking, substance abuse in general are more harmful to your body. Even if you drink just one glass of wine every month it will probably be more harmful in the long run than masturbation.
Watching porn =/= masturbation. Nobody is saying masturbating is unhealthy.
An addiction is capable of ruining your life. It doesn’t matter what it is. It’s such an incredibly toxic thing to be told that “well at least you’re addicted to x and not y”. It’s nothing but a terrible excuse to keep using and will only make things worse.
The question of the initial post is ‘can porn be used in a healthy way’. I answered the question inferring that porn is primarily used for masturbation.
Porn addiction can ruin your life like any other addiction. You’re right with that. It’s just easier to die due to substance abuse than through porn addiction.
You’re making it sound like watching porn immediately leads to an addiction and you should stop watching porn. In moderation, porn consumption is not unhealthy. However, even in moderation, substance abuse can have long lasting effects.
Just like nobody made the point that masturbating is unhealthy, I didn’t say, or even imply, anything about death or porn leading to an immediate addiction. It seems like you have a problem where you just wildly misinterpret words for whatever reason.
Just like nobody made the point that masturbating is unhealthy
The initial question is framed in a way implying that porn might only ever be consumed in an unhealthy way, meaning that masturbation would be unhealthy.
It seems like you have a problem where you just don’t interpret words for whatever reason.
Edit: I should preface this by saying I am approaching the question from the perspective of whether or not it is ethical due to the systemic abuse of women in the industry.
I have mixed feelings and would argue professional porn is, at least as it exists in the here and now, is completely exploitative on a systemic level.
If we move past that and limit the confines of the question to amateur/self-owned type paid porn: I would say it requires a society with healthy sex-ed in order for people to have a healthy relationship with porn on a societal level.
On the individual level, context matters a lot.
Personally, I think it should be temporarily banned until we fix the social problems that drive people into it.
I know it sucks for the people who have a healthy and consensual relationship with the industry, but as it is now sucks worse for the people who get exploited and abused.
Not only women are abused. Men and envy actors are harmed aswell. Basically most ‘low level’ people in the industry are, even porn stars. The ones pulling the strings are well off.
For me, porn is not really worth it because I get addicted easily. Some people might be able to use it in a healthy way but Idk.
