Yes, I've watched porn. Every guy with access to the internet has. If he's telling you otherwise, he's lying. I've decided to go a month without porn and see how I feel.
While I do think the anti-pornography fervor of the manosphere is somewhat inflated, I don't doubt that it probably has some adverse effects- for some men much more than others. I might be saying it's inflated because I, fortunately, never experienced the very negative effects that have been reported. Maybe that's because I'm still young. Everyone is different of course.
For some more recent history- I went from watching porn every night (for no more than a few minutes usually) around six months ago, to limiting it to once or twice a week, then to only once. With these new habits, my sexual drive and libido has certainly increased, I became more confident, less irritable, and I became more motivated to approach girls (I didn't find that it reduced any anxiety in this area, though). I'm now going to eschew it entirely, at least for this month. I honestly doubt that I'll be going back to watching it at all when the month is over too- maybe every once in a blue moon when I'm feeling particularly bored and horny.
The bottom line is, porn is really boring. It really, truly is. Even when I felt the need to wax the carrot, I generally couldn't watch more than a few minutes. Aside from everything else, it truly does take time out of your day that you could be using to do better things.
So now, I'm going to cut it out entirely. There's even an article about social anxiety related to porn use. We'll see what happens for me.
As I have said on this blog many times, the brain is a biological computer, and it's time for me to write some new programming for mine.
I began my 30-day challenge yesterday, the 18th of November.
Your Brain on Porn
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