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EDIT: Folks very fairly pointed out the dismissiveness of my wording, and y’all are right. While I do think therapy can and does help with addictions of any type, my wording about guilt rather than addressing the actual addiction only served the humor I was going for and wasn’t respectful for the condition. I’m leaving what I wrote as is below mostly because the quip about birding and boobies still gives me a chuckle.
Men will do literally anything other than go to fucking therapy. Jesus. Guys. You’re allowed to watch porn, let’s just direct the fear of people finding out into finding ethical porn you don’t need to feel guilt for. Or better yet, pay for your porn and support creators directly.
Also find some hobbies that get you out of the goon cave. Take up fucking birding and go find some different boobies.
There’s even great tits!
Not just tits, bushtits too! And boobies of course. Can't forget the mighty cock.
Come to NZ and see a titipounamu, morepork, kaka
Hmm. Might need a bird addiction app.
Are there any ASMR puppy play birds?
I suppose an appropriately trained parrot might do.
I mean, YMMV on that ethical porn business. I've found that to be more of a marketing gimmick than anything I can sleep soundly on.
Might just settle on not feeling guilty for beating off.
To be clear though, you should just watch the birds.
Porn addiction has nothing to do with feeling guilty about porn or masturbation, and if you think that's the problem you have no business pronouncing on it.
You're not wrong, but like gambling, porn addiction exists, but that goes to your first point about therapy. I don't understand why anyone would load this type of information into an app. I assume it's ignorance to technology, which is sad, but I can't help but think how anyone would think it's a good idea.
Most people don't really even think about privacy.
Sad but true.
Porn / sex "addiction" does not exist. Some nice folks who were super invested in proving it gave up a while back.
Most people have perfectly average porn / sex use, and are shamed by a partner or cultural messages.
A small percentage of people deal with "OCSB", out of control sexual behavior.
I disagree, but that's fine. There are people that squeeze porn into every open minute of their lives, sacrifice relationship is because of it, and spend more than they have to view it. If that's not addiction, then we might as well say that any non-chemical vice can't be considered one, like gambling.
Just because many people don't seem to notice their addiction that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The methodology used to disprove the existence of porn addiction is just to completely and utterly ignore all the people who experience it and than claiming it doesn't exist
Reading through this thread has been a bizarre experience - I genuinely couldn't have imagined the amount of pushback you get here just for speaking up for people struggling with this. It seems exactly the kind of thing I'd have expected deep compassion for, given the userbase here.
Still, my conclusion is that much of it boils down to the term "addiction" - since it's a medical term, people seem to think that once you medicalize it, you're paving the way to ban it.
Personally I don't care what term we use. If people prefer "compulsive porn use," then fine. For me the point has always been the lived experience of what people mean when they talk about living with a porn addiction - even if it officially doesn't count as one. In my opinion it does, because it checks virtually all the boxes of the standard definition: you need more of it, you seek out more extreme stuff, you get cravings when you stop, and you keep going long after the negatives have started to outweigh the positives. If that's not addiction, then I don't know what is.
At least they’ll be jerking it with some sunshine.