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Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told
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Wow. Porn really destroyed this mans life. What a tragic tale.
If jacking off constantly at age 14 doomed a person we would never have left the Miocene epoch.
We would have gone extinct before we discovered fire.
Tho not so prevelant in this current timeline with internet access, there is a global phenomenon that most little boys can attest to. When we were growing up, there was forest porn. No one knew how it got there. No one claimed it. But in every town, county, village, city, et al, there were some woods with forest porn.
I do not condone children viewing porn because they are not mentally or emotionally ready for that. However, I do know it exists and gosh, it seems to me that some proper parenting skills would solve a lot of problems.
Forest porn was absolute roided out boomer oriented garbage. Worst slop you've seen a billion times.
On the other hand, the early videos with the old Lady teaching 13yr old me how to eat someone out and anatomy were better sex ed than school and "the talk"(didn't happen lol) combined.
Addiction to porn is not a real thing. No reputable source classifies compulsive viewing of porn as an addiction as far as I know. These people just find it to be a convenient excuse for their compulsions.
The problem seems to have more to do with lack of proper sex education and social pressure rather than pornography. Why did he have to feel so ashamed that he isolated himself? That's a real issue here!
It's not like it can't happen, i also found porn very early on. I got addicted and it ruined my early sex life. Real women weren't "exciting" anymore and I'd lost my sensitivity as well.
This is NOT the solution but it's also not not an issue
Thank you for speaking up. I'm going to share a bit of my experience (unrelated to you, OP.)
I suspect (from my experience dating men) that the desensitivity issue is more common than most people will admit. Few men want to admit that their dick doesn't work properly, and a subset of those men will attempt to frame this problem as a benefit instead ("I can keep going for so long without cumming, it's my super power!") I don't expect most men will talk with each other like this, but it's one of the justifications such men tell their partners.
From the partner's perspective, I hate to have to say this, but... no, it's not a power. It's a weakness. A desensitized dick turns sex into a frustrating act that only ends when I get physically sore. If he doesn't have that "natural stopping point" that usually signals an end to penetration, and the act still feels good to him - he doesn't want to stop, so why would he? But it's a very different experience from the "receiving" partner's perspective. Most people who "receive" in sex don't want to keep going until they end up in pain. We don't want to always be the buzz-kill whose role is to decide, "Okay, sex time is over!" I want to have fun, too; not be the playground monitor that has to announce when recess is finished. Going on and on is a porn fantasy, and just like many porn fantasies, it's not that fun in real life.
The issue of porn-induced desensitivity is absolutely real. However, taking away people's privacy online is not the solution. These laws are absolutely absurd and a terrifying glimpse of the future the fascists in power are aiming toward. (And for anyone overly-concerned about my sex life that feels the need to chime in with advice - I learned from the lessons of my past, and I share those lessons in hopes that others can learn from it too.)