the effects of watching porn and masturbation?

[CapnAwesome]

Horseshit!

You have no impericle evidence of any of your claims, and as one of your "outliers" I am still aroused by the same images of beautiful women that I was when I was 16. Porn has never had any detrimental effect on my life. I have a wonderful wife that likes sex just as much as me and we've never had any issues over the past 21 years.

You are simply and completely wrong.

Completely wrong? Hardly.

Read all of the articles I provided a link for in my first post in this thread. There is indeed evidence and some research supporting my claims that pornography has ill effects. Also, go online and search for groups of people trying to kick porn and read their stories. I'll take hundreds and hundreds of different people's firsthand experiences (all very similar) as evidence any day.

As I said, there are outliers, as is apparently your case.

EDIT: Browse through these and then decide if I'm still completely wrong:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014.../?page=all
http://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/porn-debate
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/tec...s-intimacy

Those are just a few of the many, many articles available on the matter. If you are so inclined, you can also dig into the sources/studies referenced in each of those.

You know what all of those articles do, presuppose that non-monogamous, non vanilla sex is bad. They also are typically confused on cause and effect. Maybe confused in the wrong word, they may very well go in with an agenda already as the guy writing the article you linked to previously freely admitted. Often times there are quotes like this in those articles:

In a 2008 study in the journal NeuroImage, for example, men who watched erotic videos experienced mirror neuron activation and reported a desire to replicate the sex acts they saw.

Duh? It also fails to explain why that is bad. It just presupposes with typical puritan morality that it is. Even if you are watching violent porn, there are plenty of women who are consensual into that. Plenty of them. If anything more then there are men. What they are saying is actually a positive thing. Porn makes your more sexually exploitative. What they are trying to imply though in that article is that porn causes rape but they can only imply it because no data backs up that statement.

Here is another one from the same article:

Recent research suggests that this flood of visual stimulation may amplify men's evolved drive for casual sex. In a recent study, for example, Wright found that men who use porn are more likely to have multiple partners and extramarital sex.

Typically cause and effect is ignored, as is often the case. The second thing is the automatic assumption that casual sex is bad. It's not. Some people that is part of their sexual being. What is wrong with men and women enjoying casual sex? The article doesn't say, it just makes the anti-sex moral assumption. Also I've noticed that none of those articles talk about women viewing porn. Most girls I've dated and most of my female friends watch porn or have watched porn at various points in their life. Those articles again take a presupposed puritan position that porn is for men and only a male activity. This is false and again, tragically anti-sex.

Basically all those articles are anti-sex propaganda that seem to be fueled by your typical puritan agenda.