(October 6, 2015 at 1:26 am)lunafreespirit Wrote:(October 5, 2015 at 10:32 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote: There's a specialist term for men who say, that while there's nothing wrong with porn, they themselves don't find it stimulating - "liars".
Don't get me wrong - I used to say the same thing, back when I gave a sh*t about what people think of me and when I thought I was fooling anyone.
Men are incredibly easy to excite - a rudely shaped vegetable is often enough, let alone audio-visuals of people having sex.
Sure - we've been taught that such reactions to indirect sexual stimuli is shallow, immature and unbecoming of a gentleman, but just because we can supress those instincts - that doesn't mean we don't have them.
Sure - many people abstain from erotic entertainment, at least to a certain degree (since we apparently have to have a f***-scene in pretty much every movie directed at adults), but that's just adherence to cultural norms, which have been forced on us since childhood.
That's exactly what I was thinking as I read people's statements that porn doesn't excite them. Not just men, but women as well. When I was a Christian I used to say the same thing, but whenever I would see porn or sexual images, even unintentionally, I could not control the instinctual (and almost reflex) reactions my body and mind had, which was to be turned on.
I now gladly enjoy those instinctual reactions instead of feeling ashamed and in denial about them.
Believe it or not, not everyone is the same with the same turn on's. Some people are just not into porn.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
