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codonbyte
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States840 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-06 07:45:52
April 06 2015 07:42 GMT
#21
On April 06 2015 16:02 TiberiusAk wrote:
(The following links do not contain porn, but are probably NSFW given the subject matter.)

I'll see your anecdote and raise you SCIENCE plus a multitude of anecdotes from people with porn-induced sexual dysfunction.

Our physiology was not evolved to handle the phenomenon of internet porn (and given the deleterious effects, it seems unlikely that it will ever do so). You might not think it's affecting you negatively yet, but neither did all those guys who ended up with erectile dysfunction.

Overall this would seem to indicate we should encourage our adolescents to stay away from internet porn similarly to the way we keep them away from smoking.

A couple things. First of all, lol at that site name (yourbrainonporn.com). Gee, I wonder if that site has an agenda?
Glanced at a couple of the articles. This one is written by authors from goodmenproject.com. Look at the names of these websites. This has bible-belt propaganda written all over it.

Edit: lol this guy beat me to it!
On April 06 2015 16:20 KnowNothing wrote:
Much more likely, religious figures approached him with self-righteous forgiveness and an offer if he would champion their cause.

Well said! Yeah, these are the same people who are pushing abstinence-only sex education in American schools.
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excitedBear
Profile Joined March 2015
Austria120 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-06 09:02:43
April 06 2015 08:58 GMT
#22
There is a reason why it takes so long for humans to grow up compared to other animals.
It's because the BRAIN needs extra time to develop.
That's why parents have a natural tendency to keep the development of the brain free from potentially bad influences.

That's an innate behavior of parents.
Sure, you could claim that porn isn't that bad and doesn't affect the wiring of the child's brain.
But nobody is going to make that experiment on their own children.
JieXian
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Malaysia4677 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-06 14:34:19
April 06 2015 09:17 GMT
#23
To be fair and accurate, the thread title should be " Porn not harmful to me"

On April 06 2015 14:30 Slaughter wrote:
If your that curious about the issue and skeptical of popular opinion then you can read up on some of the science (both from a biological and a social perspective). I haven't looked into this topic but I do recall an article about porn and changes in the brain (I think it was reduced grey matter?)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/02/porn-less-gray-matter-brain_n_5418607.html to get you started.

Obviously with the way large scale information dissemination among a large group things get changed and exaggerated, but to say porn has 0 impact on a person (especially over consumption) is going in the opposite direction. Often the nuances of these things get lost when it comes to things society perceives as bad.


thanks for the link but to be fair you need to include a quote from the article before saying that.

“It's not clear, for example, whether watching porn leads to brain changes or whether people born with certain brain types watch more porn,” study author Dr. Simone Kühn of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin told Reuters in an email.
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OtherWorld
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
France17333 Posts
April 06 2015 09:39 GMT
#24
On April 06 2015 16:02 TiberiusAk wrote:
(The following links do not contain porn, but are probably NSFW given the subject matter.)

I'll see your anecdote and raise you SCIENCE plus a multitude of anecdotes from people with porn-induced sexual dysfunction.

Our physiology was not evolved to handle the phenomenon of internet porn (and given the deleterious effects, it seems unlikely that it will ever do so). You might not think it's affecting you negatively yet, but neither did all those guys who ended up with erectile dysfunction.

Overall this would seem to indicate we should encourage our adolescents to stay away from internet porn similarly to the way we keep them away from smoking.

"Our physiology was not evolved to handle the phenomenon of internet porn"
LMAO I wish I could 5/5 posts.
As for the OP, yeah well what do you want, blatant hypocrisy has been a major part of every society ever. Move along.
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JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada16678 Posts
April 06 2015 14:40 GMT
#25
On April 06 2015 16:20 KnowNothing wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 06 2015 12:48 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
On April 06 2015 09:01 codonbyte wrote:
Throughout my tween years, I felt incredibly guilty about my habit. I felt bad for betraying my parents trust, since I had promised them I wouldn't google anything without asking them first, but I also just felt bad about my habit in general. Everyone around me was constantly talking about how evil pornography was; how psychologically damaging it was to children, etc.
...
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This experience has made me much more skeptical of any widely-accepted opinion. If something as widely-accepted as "porn bad for kids" turned out to be wrong in my case, what other widely-accepted "truths" might actually be wrong?


Ted Bundy used this fear to coax concessions out of prosecutors.
He had christian religious figure head guys championing his cause that "porn made him do it".



Bundy was a brilliant con-man.


Much more likely, religious figures approached him with self-righteous forgiveness and an offer if he would champion their cause.


Bundy used any and every piece of leverage he had to sweeten his deal during his time in prison.
the religious leader guys were merely 1 pawn in his over all game.
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opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
April 06 2015 15:16 GMT
#26
For some reasons I glanced across the thumbnail for the video and thought it is about Al Bundy (from that silly sitcom, the guy even superficial resembles him). The rest of the related discussion is then interestingly surreal.
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fluffy_pylon
Profile Blog Joined November 2014
United States79 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-06 16:12:53
April 06 2015 16:11 GMT
#27
Sheltering children only harms them in unpredictable ways that parents can't control.
When I was 14, my father discovered porn downloaded on our computer (at the time we only had one computer in the house). My parents went absolutely ballistic and threatened to discipline me and stuff like that.
But knowing the taboo nature of this material only intensified my desire to seek out similar, and increasingly more perverse, content.
I started to become more and more preoccupied with nude female physiques and came to regard them as a source of visceral beauty, elegant sophistication, divine art, and physical pleasure.
I believe that to deny children the freedom to understand their own sexuality is a grievous offense and limits their capacity to understand themselves and the outside world.
RouaF
Profile Joined October 2010
France4120 Posts
April 06 2015 20:01 GMT
#28
On April 06 2015 10:31 micronesia wrote:
I'm trying to pin down your age based on the references in the OP, but it's proving difficult. You didn't know what psychology was apparently in 2004 (when the Jackson Superbowl wardrobe malfunction occurred), but there was no browser aside from ie and netscape when you were 11 and first looking at porn. Despite that, you were able toaware of google.

Either my memory is off or your story is slightly embellished somehow :p

Lol I thought exactly the same thing, when I think IE/Netscape it reminds me of when I was 10years old and playing diablo1 online. I'm pretty damn sure google wasn't around (or wasn't popular yet) back then, we all used altavista .
flipstar
Profile Joined January 2011
226 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-06 21:42:07
April 06 2015 21:38 GMT
#29
I had sex issues when I was younger to the point of faking orgasm. It was directly linked to porn. NoFap saved my sexlife. ^^ Be wary of anecdotal evidence, you risk sounding quite ignorant.

I'm ok with you being ignorant, but you shouldn't be.

edit:

Just in case, because you seem to think it's relevant; I'm atheist.
deathly rat
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United Kingdom911 Posts
April 07 2015 01:26 GMT
#30
Nudity is not the same as sex. You can argue that there is nothing wrong with children seeing naked people from a naturism viewpoint. Preadolescent children shouldn't be exposed to sexual content without their wishes (and they aren't capable of making an informed decision).
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BronzeKnee
Profile Joined March 2011
United States5217 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-07 04:30:12
April 07 2015 04:27 GMT
#31
On April 06 2015 09:01 codonbyte wrote:
All my life, I have been surrounded by adults who freak out at the idea of children being exposed to any nudity whatsoever.

I remember during one Superbowl halftime show, one of the actresses exposed her breast for a few seconds. The fallout of this simple risque act was huge. I remember parents TV going on and on about how "outraged" they were that their "precious innocent children" had been exposed to something so "disgusting" and "inappropriate". People were going on and on about "psychological damage". At the time, I didn't know what "psychological" meant, but it sure sounded scary.

I remember periodically seeing news reports on TV about the dangers of the internet, and how parents need to monitor their children at all times. Obviously there are plenty of legit dangers to children online, such as viruses, pedophiles trying to abduct them, hackers trying to phish passwords, etc. But one danger that was always mentioned during these reports was porn. Heck, porn was usually the first thing that was mentioned. "Oh you better watch your kids carefully, make sure they don't get corrupted by all that super dangerous porn!".

Everywhere you go, it seams that people absolutely freak out at the idea of children encountering porn on the internet. In the United States, it's actually a crime for an adult to transmit pornography to a minor (keep in mind that a "minor" could be someone who's 17). Schools that want to allow their students to access the internet are required to install a bunch of "net safety" software that blocks a bunch of legit sites and only about 40% of porn sites.

I started viewing pornography when I was 11. I did a google search for something innocuous (not going to say what because I don't want to get too personal with these blog posts), and google returned a bunch of porn sites on the first page. I clicked on one of the porn sites, not realizing what it was, and I liked what I saw.

Of course, I didn't have my own computer back then, so it was tricky to find time to search for porn. Luckily, my parents had just started leaving me home alone at that point, so there were opportunities here and there for me to indulge.

At the time I wasn't the computer-whiz I am now, so I didn't know about the existence of browsing history. Luckily for me, neither did my parents . And they didn't learn about browsing-history until I told them... after I had learned how to delete it (this was way back when Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer were the only browsers available, so no Incognito Mode).

Throughout my tween years, I felt incredibly guilty about my habit. I felt bad for betraying my parents trust, since I had promised them I wouldn't google anything without asking them first, but I also just felt bad about my habit in general. Everyone around me was constantly talking about how evil pornography was; how psychologically damaging it was to children, etc.

Luckily, I eventually learned to think for myself, and was able to stop feeling guilty about my habit. That lifted a huge weight off of my shoulders. I was finally able to go about my daily life without feeling like a horrible person. As I started browsing forums and using chat rooms, I learned that my habit was much more common than I had realized. That made me feel even better.

Well, there you have it. I started using porn at the age of eleven, and you know what? I don't think it traumatized me, corrupted me, or inflicted "emotional damage" on me. Who would have thunk it? I don't know how much it's worth. I mean this is just one person's experience. Also, I'm not sure how easy it is to judge whether someone has been "emotionally damaged" by something. But I do know that viewing "adult content" at the age of 11 did not give me nightmares or PTSD or anything crazy.

And keep in mind, I wasn't just viewing soft-core erotica, either. Soft-core erotica is what I was looking for, but in the process of looking for it I stumbled upon plenty of super hard-core porn, which I wasn't into. But you know what? When I encountered something that was too hard-core for my tastes, I simply closed the tab (err, window, since tabs didn't exist when I was 11!) and moved onto something else. It didn't traumatize me one bit.

This experience has made me much more skeptical of any widely-accepted opinion. If something as widely-accepted as "porn bad for kids" turned out to be wrong in my case, what other widely-accepted "truths" might actually be wrong?


I feel like you created this big post about the stigma around sexuality and people being sexual, but then link that to porn and use it to justify your "habit" which is very odd.

As someone who works with addicts including sex addicts and porn addicts, and sees the effects first hand in marriages, relationships and lives. Years of peer reviewed research and literature are very clear: Porn is bad for everyone. Sexuality is good for everyone, in moderation.

Let's not confuse the two. They aren't the same, or even close. There is a lot of stigma around sexuality, which is ridiculous, because there shouldn't be. But porn is literally the institutionalization of rape that objectifies the human body. But that is a story for another time.

As for individuals... well why do people watch porn? Because they don't get to have enough sex. And that is in large part due to the stigma around sexuality. So stigma around sexuality literally created the pornography industry. So porn is part of the problem, it isn't the solution.

Anyway, I'm sure you can find the Danish study that says porn doesn't do anything to your mental health ect... just like I can find studies that say global warming is a myth. But at the end of the day, you'll believe what you want, and I'll believe what I want. Just make sure you don't deny the problem if you end up in counseling please, because it is annoying.
SoulRiM
Profile Joined August 2013
Germany53 Posts
April 07 2015 09:04 GMT
#32
On April 07 2015 13:27 BronzeKnee wrote:

I feel like you created this big post about the stigma around sexuality and people being sexual, but then link that to porn and use it to justify your "habit" which is very odd.

As someone who works with addicts including sex addicts and porn addicts, and sees the effects first hand in marriages, relationships and lives. Years of peer reviewed research and literature are very clear: Porn is bad for everyone. Sexuality is good for everyone, in moderation.

Let's not confuse the two. They aren't the same, or even close. There is a lot of stigma around sexuality, which is ridiculous, because there shouldn't be. But porn is literally the institutionalization of rape that objectifies the human body. But that is a story for another time.

As for individuals... well why do people watch porn? Because they don't get to have enough sex. And that is in large part due to the stigma around sexuality. So stigma around sexuality literally created the pornography industry. So porn is part of the problem, it isn't the solution.

Anyway, I'm sure you can find the Danish study that says porn doesn't do anything to your mental health ect... just like I can find studies that say global warming is a myth. But at the end of the day, you'll believe what you want, and I'll believe what I want. Just make sure you don't deny the problem if you end up in counseling please, because it is annoying.


I don't really get your point there... Your first point is that you CAN get addicted to viewing porn. YES, that's right, but you can get addicted to everything you like. You don't say eating for example is bad because you can get addicted to it. And I would be really interested to see some of that literature showing how bad Porn is. Much of the bad coming from Porn is people who can't see the difference between porn and RL.
Also I don't think that people who watch much porn would have necesserely more sex without its existence and that the stigma around sexuality is generated by porn industry makes no sense at all. This stigma was already there when the porn industry kicked in... ever heard of people being forced to wear a chastity belt in medieval times just because they had sex before marriage. So basically you can argue that that stigma is made by church.
LaughingTulkas
Profile Joined March 2008
United States1107 Posts
April 07 2015 17:59 GMT
#33
On April 06 2015 16:42 codonbyte wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 06 2015 16:02 TiberiusAk wrote:
(The following links do not contain porn, but are probably NSFW given the subject matter.)

I'll see your anecdote and raise you SCIENCE plus a multitude of anecdotes from people with porn-induced sexual dysfunction.

Our physiology was not evolved to handle the phenomenon of internet porn (and given the deleterious effects, it seems unlikely that it will ever do so). You might not think it's affecting you negatively yet, but neither did all those guys who ended up with erectile dysfunction.

Overall this would seem to indicate we should encourage our adolescents to stay away from internet porn similarly to the way we keep them away from smoking.

A couple things. First of all, lol at that site name (yourbrainonporn.com). Gee, I wonder if that site has an agenda?
Glanced at a couple of the articles. This one is written by authors from goodmenproject.com. Look at the names of these websites. This has bible-belt propaganda written all over it.

Edit: lol this guy beat me to it!
Show nested quote +
On April 06 2015 16:20 KnowNothing wrote:
Much more likely, religious figures approached him with self-righteous forgiveness and an offer if he would champion their cause.

Well said! Yeah, these are the same people who are pushing abstinence-only sex education in American schools.


I haven't read any of the articles, but this kind of argument is a fallacy. There are over 50 cited journal articles in that list of links and you are discrediting all of them, not on scientific grounds, but because a couple of the other links listed (the non-scientific ones) were from "Bible belt" sources. Sorry, as a scientist, this sort of stuff just pisses me off. Obviously, with so much research, there must be something there, at least enough for some kind of response requiring an actual thought. Of course that website is biased, their whole message is that porn is bad, but they at least listed their sources and are well-cited. It's not some stupid bullshit like "studies show" and then no studies at all are listed, or it's just like 12 studies from one kooky author, there are a LOT of studies there. That people who are against porn in general (religious) cite articles showing porn could be harmful or affect brain chemistry is not a good reason to ignore what the articles say. Actually I'll go further, its a dumb reason.

I know I bookmarked that site and plan to look over some of the papers listed, only because at least I'll learn what they have to say instead of ignoring it. Don't bury your head in the sand when someone says something you disagree with, learn about it! Make up your own mind after looking at the data, not because of superstition or fallacies. If studies conflict, learn about the methodology and what flaws might be present. We need more people who will actually try to learn about topics that interest them and then decide based on knowledge and good science.

Whoops that just turned into a rant, and not necessarily against you, just the world in general. I guess reading about the "food babe" today has already used up my tolerance for willful ignorance and disregard of real scientific studies.
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Dalguno
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2446 Posts
April 07 2015 18:26 GMT
#34
On April 07 2015 18:04 SoulRiM wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 07 2015 13:27 BronzeKnee wrote:

I feel like you created this big post about the stigma around sexuality and people being sexual, but then link that to porn and use it to justify your "habit" which is very odd.

As someone who works with addicts including sex addicts and porn addicts, and sees the effects first hand in marriages, relationships and lives. Years of peer reviewed research and literature are very clear: Porn is bad for everyone. Sexuality is good for everyone, in moderation.

Let's not confuse the two. They aren't the same, or even close. There is a lot of stigma around sexuality, which is ridiculous, because there shouldn't be. But porn is literally the institutionalization of rape that objectifies the human body. But that is a story for another time.

As for individuals... well why do people watch porn? Because they don't get to have enough sex. And that is in large part due to the stigma around sexuality. So stigma around sexuality literally created the pornography industry. So porn is part of the problem, it isn't the solution.

Anyway, I'm sure you can find the Danish study that says porn doesn't do anything to your mental health ect... just like I can find studies that say global warming is a myth. But at the end of the day, you'll believe what you want, and I'll believe what I want. Just make sure you don't deny the problem if you end up in counseling please, because it is annoying.


I don't really get your point there... Your first point is that you CAN get addicted to viewing porn. YES, that's right, but you can get addicted to everything you like. You don't say eating for example is bad because you can get addicted to it. And I would be really interested to see some of that literature showing how bad Porn is. Much of the bad coming from Porn is people who can't see the difference between porn and RL.
Also I don't think that people who watch much porn would have necesserely more sex without its existence and that the stigma around sexuality is generated by porn industry makes no sense at all. This stigma was already there when the porn industry kicked in... ever heard of people being forced to wear a chastity belt in medieval times just because they had sex before marriage. So basically you can argue that that stigma is made by church.


Just something I want to point out: The point that you can get addicted to many things is hardly sound. You can get addicted to water, sweeping the floor, getting a haircut, etc. but how often does that actually happen? There are things that are obviously more addictive than others, such as nicotine (and other drugs), gambling, and a host of others. Sex and arousal have a higher potential to cause addiction than other things due to the dopamine release and all that jazz. So him saying that porn is addictive is a perfectly valid point. You can't toss it aside simply by saying "you can get to everything you like."
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Glowsphere
Profile Blog Joined November 2014
United States170 Posts
April 07 2015 18:27 GMT
#35
On April 07 2015 13:27 BronzeKnee wrote:
... But porn is literally the institutionalization of rape that objectifies the human body ....


Oh hell no.
codonbyte
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States840 Posts
April 07 2015 19:06 GMT
#36
On April 08 2015 02:59 LaughingTulkas wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 06 2015 16:42 codonbyte wrote:
On April 06 2015 16:02 TiberiusAk wrote:
(The following links do not contain porn, but are probably NSFW given the subject matter.)

I'll see your anecdote and raise you SCIENCE plus a multitude of anecdotes from people with porn-induced sexual dysfunction.

Our physiology was not evolved to handle the phenomenon of internet porn (and given the deleterious effects, it seems unlikely that it will ever do so). You might not think it's affecting you negatively yet, but neither did all those guys who ended up with erectile dysfunction.

Overall this would seem to indicate we should encourage our adolescents to stay away from internet porn similarly to the way we keep them away from smoking.

A couple things. First of all, lol at that site name (yourbrainonporn.com). Gee, I wonder if that site has an agenda?
Glanced at a couple of the articles. This one is written by authors from goodmenproject.com. Look at the names of these websites. This has bible-belt propaganda written all over it.

Edit: lol this guy beat me to it!
On April 06 2015 16:20 KnowNothing wrote:
Much more likely, religious figures approached him with self-righteous forgiveness and an offer if he would champion their cause.

Well said! Yeah, these are the same people who are pushing abstinence-only sex education in American schools.


I haven't read any of the articles, but this kind of argument is a fallacy. There are over 50 cited journal articles in that list of links and you are discrediting all of them, not on scientific grounds, but because a couple of the other links listed (the non-scientific ones) were from "Bible belt" sources. Sorry, as a scientist, this sort of stuff just pisses me off. Obviously, with so much research, there must be something there, at least enough for some kind of response requiring an actual thought. Of course that website is biased, their whole message is that porn is bad, but they at least listed their sources and are well-cited. It's not some stupid bullshit like "studies show" and then no studies at all are listed, or it's just like 12 studies from one kooky author, there are a LOT of studies there. That people who are against porn in general (religious) cite articles showing porn could be harmful or affect brain chemistry is not a good reason to ignore what the articles say. Actually I'll go further, its a dumb reason.

I know I bookmarked that site and plan to look over some of the papers listed, only because at least I'll learn what they have to say instead of ignoring it. Don't bury your head in the sand when someone says something you disagree with, learn about it! Make up your own mind after looking at the data, not because of superstition or fallacies. If studies conflict, learn about the methodology and what flaws might be present. We need more people who will actually try to learn about topics that interest them and then decide based on knowledge and good science.

Whoops that just turned into a rant, and not necessarily against you, just the world in general. I guess reading about the "food babe" today has already used up my tolerance for willful ignorance and disregard of real scientific studies.

You're right. I didn't have time to read fifty different articles, so I picked a couple at random. And the ones that I picked came from sources with strong political agendas. Obviously to get a proper read on the reliability of the site, we'd have to read all the articles, which I don't have time to do at the moment. However, I never pretended that I had read all fifty articles. I was very open about exactly how much information I had looked at, and what I had found. I never claimed that my post was a concrete fact; I simply stated the impression I had with the first couple articles that I glanced at.

That's not in any way burrying my head in the sand; that's simply giving a quick look and stating what my first impression is.

I don't know whether I'll go back and read all 50 articles or not. On the one hand, I do want to learn the truth about whether or not I'm harming myself by using porn. On the other hand, it would likely be a waste of time to read all those articles since I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to stop using porn if I were to learn that it is harmful, due to my incredibly shitty self-control *sigh*.
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LaughingTulkas
Profile Joined March 2008
United States1107 Posts
April 07 2015 19:18 GMT
#37
On April 08 2015 04:06 codonbyte wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 08 2015 02:59 LaughingTulkas wrote:
On April 06 2015 16:42 codonbyte wrote:
On April 06 2015 16:02 TiberiusAk wrote:
(The following links do not contain porn, but are probably NSFW given the subject matter.)

I'll see your anecdote and raise you SCIENCE plus a multitude of anecdotes from people with porn-induced sexual dysfunction.

Our physiology was not evolved to handle the phenomenon of internet porn (and given the deleterious effects, it seems unlikely that it will ever do so). You might not think it's affecting you negatively yet, but neither did all those guys who ended up with erectile dysfunction.

Overall this would seem to indicate we should encourage our adolescents to stay away from internet porn similarly to the way we keep them away from smoking.

A couple things. First of all, lol at that site name (yourbrainonporn.com). Gee, I wonder if that site has an agenda?
Glanced at a couple of the articles. This one is written by authors from goodmenproject.com. Look at the names of these websites. This has bible-belt propaganda written all over it.

Edit: lol this guy beat me to it!
On April 06 2015 16:20 KnowNothing wrote:
Much more likely, religious figures approached him with self-righteous forgiveness and an offer if he would champion their cause.

Well said! Yeah, these are the same people who are pushing abstinence-only sex education in American schools.


I haven't read any of the articles, but this kind of argument is a fallacy. There are over 50 cited journal articles in that list of links and you are discrediting all of them, not on scientific grounds, but because a couple of the other links listed (the non-scientific ones) were from "Bible belt" sources. Sorry, as a scientist, this sort of stuff just pisses me off. Obviously, with so much research, there must be something there, at least enough for some kind of response requiring an actual thought. Of course that website is biased, their whole message is that porn is bad, but they at least listed their sources and are well-cited. It's not some stupid bullshit like "studies show" and then no studies at all are listed, or it's just like 12 studies from one kooky author, there are a LOT of studies there. That people who are against porn in general (religious) cite articles showing porn could be harmful or affect brain chemistry is not a good reason to ignore what the articles say. Actually I'll go further, its a dumb reason.

I know I bookmarked that site and plan to look over some of the papers listed, only because at least I'll learn what they have to say instead of ignoring it. Don't bury your head in the sand when someone says something you disagree with, learn about it! Make up your own mind after looking at the data, not because of superstition or fallacies. If studies conflict, learn about the methodology and what flaws might be present. We need more people who will actually try to learn about topics that interest them and then decide based on knowledge and good science.

Whoops that just turned into a rant, and not necessarily against you, just the world in general. I guess reading about the "food babe" today has already used up my tolerance for willful ignorance and disregard of real scientific studies.

You're right. I didn't have time to read fifty different articles, so I picked a couple at random. And the ones that I picked came from sources with strong political agendas. Obviously to get a proper read on the reliability of the site, we'd have to read all the articles, which I don't have time to do at the moment. However, I never pretended that I had read all fifty articles. I was very open about exactly how much information I had looked at, and what I had found. I never claimed that my post was a concrete fact; I simply stated the impression I had with the first couple articles that I glanced at.

That's not in any way burrying my head in the sand; that's simply giving a quick look and stating what my first impression is.

I don't know whether I'll go back and read all 50 articles or not. On the one hand, I do want to learn the truth about whether or not I'm harming myself by using porn. On the other hand, it would likely be a waste of time to read all those articles since I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to stop using porn if I were to learn that it is harmful, due to my incredibly shitty self-control *sigh*.


The link you quoted isn't even from the scientific section, it's from the "website" section, so maybe you pulled a link at random, but what you posted was not indicative of the page the author linked, and how you presented it was not correct either. I opened a few of the scientific links and got 3 legit articles and a 150+ page doctoral thesis from a German university (that included a 100+ paper bibliography with more references).
+ Show Spoiler +
Link is here is you really want a lot of information http://d-nb.info/1029288496/34
My agenda is not to make you stop masturbating or to stop looking at porn, but just to not dismiss stuff out of hand that doesn't fit with what you think is correct for bad reasons. There IS science on that page, and sure it may be collected by a group that has ideals that conflict with yours, but that doesn't mean the science is bad or should be dismissed in the way you originally posted.

I also didn't want others who could be potentially interested to not look at that site because they read what you wrote and thought something that wasn't true. There's a lot of interesting brain chemistry and psychological information collected there that's worth looking at if you're interested in that sort of thing. I bet there's even information about why self-control is hard. Anyway, sorry you were on the wrong side of my rant, like I said, I've just had my fill of science-phobia today.
"I love noobies, they're so happy." -Chill
codonbyte
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States840 Posts
April 07 2015 21:18 GMT
#38
On April 08 2015 04:18 LaughingTulkas wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 08 2015 04:06 codonbyte wrote:
On April 08 2015 02:59 LaughingTulkas wrote:
On April 06 2015 16:42 codonbyte wrote:
On April 06 2015 16:02 TiberiusAk wrote:
(The following links do not contain porn, but are probably NSFW given the subject matter.)

I'll see your anecdote and raise you SCIENCE plus a multitude of anecdotes from people with porn-induced sexual dysfunction.

Our physiology was not evolved to handle the phenomenon of internet porn (and given the deleterious effects, it seems unlikely that it will ever do so). You might not think it's affecting you negatively yet, but neither did all those guys who ended up with erectile dysfunction.

Overall this would seem to indicate we should encourage our adolescents to stay away from internet porn similarly to the way we keep them away from smoking.

A couple things. First of all, lol at that site name (yourbrainonporn.com). Gee, I wonder if that site has an agenda?
Glanced at a couple of the articles. This one is written by authors from goodmenproject.com. Look at the names of these websites. This has bible-belt propaganda written all over it.

Edit: lol this guy beat me to it!
On April 06 2015 16:20 KnowNothing wrote:
Much more likely, religious figures approached him with self-righteous forgiveness and an offer if he would champion their cause.

Well said! Yeah, these are the same people who are pushing abstinence-only sex education in American schools.


I haven't read any of the articles, but this kind of argument is a fallacy. There are over 50 cited journal articles in that list of links and you are discrediting all of them, not on scientific grounds, but because a couple of the other links listed (the non-scientific ones) were from "Bible belt" sources. Sorry, as a scientist, this sort of stuff just pisses me off. Obviously, with so much research, there must be something there, at least enough for some kind of response requiring an actual thought. Of course that website is biased, their whole message is that porn is bad, but they at least listed their sources and are well-cited. It's not some stupid bullshit like "studies show" and then no studies at all are listed, or it's just like 12 studies from one kooky author, there are a LOT of studies there. That people who are against porn in general (religious) cite articles showing porn could be harmful or affect brain chemistry is not a good reason to ignore what the articles say. Actually I'll go further, its a dumb reason.

I know I bookmarked that site and plan to look over some of the papers listed, only because at least I'll learn what they have to say instead of ignoring it. Don't bury your head in the sand when someone says something you disagree with, learn about it! Make up your own mind after looking at the data, not because of superstition or fallacies. If studies conflict, learn about the methodology and what flaws might be present. We need more people who will actually try to learn about topics that interest them and then decide based on knowledge and good science.

Whoops that just turned into a rant, and not necessarily against you, just the world in general. I guess reading about the "food babe" today has already used up my tolerance for willful ignorance and disregard of real scientific studies.

You're right. I didn't have time to read fifty different articles, so I picked a couple at random. And the ones that I picked came from sources with strong political agendas. Obviously to get a proper read on the reliability of the site, we'd have to read all the articles, which I don't have time to do at the moment. However, I never pretended that I had read all fifty articles. I was very open about exactly how much information I had looked at, and what I had found. I never claimed that my post was a concrete fact; I simply stated the impression I had with the first couple articles that I glanced at.

That's not in any way burrying my head in the sand; that's simply giving a quick look and stating what my first impression is.

I don't know whether I'll go back and read all 50 articles or not. On the one hand, I do want to learn the truth about whether or not I'm harming myself by using porn. On the other hand, it would likely be a waste of time to read all those articles since I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to stop using porn if I were to learn that it is harmful, due to my incredibly shitty self-control *sigh*.


The link you quoted isn't even from the scientific section, it's from the "website" section, so maybe you pulled a link at random, but what you posted was not indicative of the page the author linked, and how you presented it was not correct either. I opened a few of the scientific links and got 3 legit articles and a 150+ page doctoral thesis from a German university (that included a 100+ paper bibliography with more references).
+ Show Spoiler +
Link is here is you really want a lot of information http://d-nb.info/1029288496/34
My agenda is not to make you stop masturbating or to stop looking at porn, but just to not dismiss stuff out of hand that doesn't fit with what you think is correct for bad reasons. There IS science on that page, and sure it may be collected by a group that has ideals that conflict with yours, but that doesn't mean the science is bad or should be dismissed in the way you originally posted.

I also didn't want others who could be potentially interested to not look at that site because they read what you wrote and thought something that wasn't true. There's a lot of interesting brain chemistry and psychological information collected there that's worth looking at if you're interested in that sort of thing. I bet there's even information about why self-control is hard. Anyway, sorry you were on the wrong side of my rant, like I said, I've just had my fill of science-phobia today.

Oh no worries, man. Your point is basically correct, although tbh I think there's only so much we can learn about the effects of porn without doing a "proper" experiment, and obviously we can't do such an experiment because it would be unethical, hence why I'm skeptical of all the studies there, since we can't do "the forbidden experiment".

But yeah, you are correct, I used a shitty argument form. And I get really pissed when people use that type of argument on reddit, but I just used it. So much for me not being a hypocrit :p
Procrastination is the enemy
LaughingTulkas
Profile Joined March 2008
United States1107 Posts
April 08 2015 12:14 GMT
#39
On April 08 2015 06:18 codonbyte wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 08 2015 04:18 LaughingTulkas wrote:
On April 08 2015 04:06 codonbyte wrote:
On April 08 2015 02:59 LaughingTulkas wrote:
On April 06 2015 16:42 codonbyte wrote:
On April 06 2015 16:02 TiberiusAk wrote:
(The following links do not contain porn, but are probably NSFW given the subject matter.)

I'll see your anecdote and raise you SCIENCE plus a multitude of anecdotes from people with porn-induced sexual dysfunction.

Our physiology was not evolved to handle the phenomenon of internet porn (and given the deleterious effects, it seems unlikely that it will ever do so). You might not think it's affecting you negatively yet, but neither did all those guys who ended up with erectile dysfunction.

Overall this would seem to indicate we should encourage our adolescents to stay away from internet porn similarly to the way we keep them away from smoking.

A couple things. First of all, lol at that site name (yourbrainonporn.com). Gee, I wonder if that site has an agenda?
Glanced at a couple of the articles. This one is written by authors from goodmenproject.com. Look at the names of these websites. This has bible-belt propaganda written all over it.

Edit: lol this guy beat me to it!
On April 06 2015 16:20 KnowNothing wrote:
Much more likely, religious figures approached him with self-righteous forgiveness and an offer if he would champion their cause.

Well said! Yeah, these are the same people who are pushing abstinence-only sex education in American schools.


I haven't read any of the articles, but this kind of argument is a fallacy. There are over 50 cited journal articles in that list of links and you are discrediting all of them, not on scientific grounds, but because a couple of the other links listed (the non-scientific ones) were from "Bible belt" sources. Sorry, as a scientist, this sort of stuff just pisses me off. Obviously, with so much research, there must be something there, at least enough for some kind of response requiring an actual thought. Of course that website is biased, their whole message is that porn is bad, but they at least listed their sources and are well-cited. It's not some stupid bullshit like "studies show" and then no studies at all are listed, or it's just like 12 studies from one kooky author, there are a LOT of studies there. That people who are against porn in general (religious) cite articles showing porn could be harmful or affect brain chemistry is not a good reason to ignore what the articles say. Actually I'll go further, its a dumb reason.

I know I bookmarked that site and plan to look over some of the papers listed, only because at least I'll learn what they have to say instead of ignoring it. Don't bury your head in the sand when someone says something you disagree with, learn about it! Make up your own mind after looking at the data, not because of superstition or fallacies. If studies conflict, learn about the methodology and what flaws might be present. We need more people who will actually try to learn about topics that interest them and then decide based on knowledge and good science.

Whoops that just turned into a rant, and not necessarily against you, just the world in general. I guess reading about the "food babe" today has already used up my tolerance for willful ignorance and disregard of real scientific studies.

You're right. I didn't have time to read fifty different articles, so I picked a couple at random. And the ones that I picked came from sources with strong political agendas. Obviously to get a proper read on the reliability of the site, we'd have to read all the articles, which I don't have time to do at the moment. However, I never pretended that I had read all fifty articles. I was very open about exactly how much information I had looked at, and what I had found. I never claimed that my post was a concrete fact; I simply stated the impression I had with the first couple articles that I glanced at.

That's not in any way burrying my head in the sand; that's simply giving a quick look and stating what my first impression is.

I don't know whether I'll go back and read all 50 articles or not. On the one hand, I do want to learn the truth about whether or not I'm harming myself by using porn. On the other hand, it would likely be a waste of time to read all those articles since I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to stop using porn if I were to learn that it is harmful, due to my incredibly shitty self-control *sigh*.


The link you quoted isn't even from the scientific section, it's from the "website" section, so maybe you pulled a link at random, but what you posted was not indicative of the page the author linked, and how you presented it was not correct either. I opened a few of the scientific links and got 3 legit articles and a 150+ page doctoral thesis from a German university (that included a 100+ paper bibliography with more references).
+ Show Spoiler +
Link is here is you really want a lot of information http://d-nb.info/1029288496/34
My agenda is not to make you stop masturbating or to stop looking at porn, but just to not dismiss stuff out of hand that doesn't fit with what you think is correct for bad reasons. There IS science on that page, and sure it may be collected by a group that has ideals that conflict with yours, but that doesn't mean the science is bad or should be dismissed in the way you originally posted.

I also didn't want others who could be potentially interested to not look at that site because they read what you wrote and thought something that wasn't true. There's a lot of interesting brain chemistry and psychological information collected there that's worth looking at if you're interested in that sort of thing. I bet there's even information about why self-control is hard. Anyway, sorry you were on the wrong side of my rant, like I said, I've just had my fill of science-phobia today.

Oh no worries, man. Your point is basically correct, although tbh I think there's only so much we can learn about the effects of porn without doing a "proper" experiment, and obviously we can't do such an experiment because it would be unethical, hence why I'm skeptical of all the studies there, since we can't do "the forbidden experiment".

But yeah, you are correct, I used a shitty argument form. And I get really pissed when people use that type of argument on reddit, but I just used it. So much for me not being a hypocrit :p



Well, we are all hypocrites at times, next time you can call me out on it. :D

Have a great day sir!
"I love noobies, they're so happy." -Chill
marvellosity
Profile Joined January 2011
United Kingdom36161 Posts
April 08 2015 15:25 GMT
#40
On April 08 2015 03:27 Glowsphere wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 07 2015 13:27 BronzeKnee wrote:
... But porn is literally the institutionalization of rape that objectifies the human body ....


Oh hell no.

yeah i know right.
[15:15] <Palmar> and yes marv, you're a total hottie
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