the effects of watching porn and masturbation?

[truth search]

Hi everyone,
There are three questions about masturbation and porn that i look for answers:
1- What are the effects of watching porn mentally, morally and physically?
2- What are the effects of masturbation mentally, morally and physically?
3- What are the effects of masturbation (with having imagination about sexual images in mind) mentally, morally and physically?
Thanks in advance for whose respond to these questions.

[TheRealJoeFish]

From a guy's perspective:

1. Your mind doesn't change, your morals don't change and your penis becomes turgid.
2. Your mind doesn't change, your morals don't change and you ejaculate.
3. See answer to #2.

[Alex K]

Teeehee he said "physically" *giggle*

[Strider]

I won't comment on morality because that's a can of worms I don't want to open. That said, I think that pornography has harmful mental effects. I feel quite strongly on this matter.

The act of intercourse, sexual images, and so forth affect the brain in many ways. Various hormones are released, the nervous system is flooded with stimuli, and lots of other biological things are happening. Now, we have access to any and all kinds of porn with the click of a mouse and people are experiencing this flood of stimuli on a daily basis if not multiple times a day for some people. It's not that much different from other addictions. People get hooked on the rush of getting off on porn.

Here's the harm as I see it: desensitization. If you binge on porn daily, your real life sexual activities with your partner will suffer. I figure somebody will chime in and say, "I watch porn everyday and my real sex is great!" Good for you. You're an outlier. Anyway, over time the same old, vanilla porn that you watch will probably stop being as effective in helping you get off. This will inevitably result in seeking out more effective stimuli. A person seeks out porn that pushes the envelope and is more "hardcore" or "extreme". You see the slippery slope here? It's just like with drugs; to get the desired response, you have to take something stronger as you build up a tolerance.

I'm off of porn and have been for a long while now. I feel better physically, I perform better, and I feel better about myself. All that time spent fapping in front of the computer can be spent reading a book and channeling that energy into something productive.

EDIT: OP, I recommend the "Men and Porn" series of articles at Art of Manliness. Related articles are listed toward the bottom of the page. Regardless of your personal opinion on porn, you should give it a read.

[brewer]

I suggest that you begin performing your own experiments and research. Make it all sciency.

Keep a journal and record all data. Time of day, place, your body position, the type of porn (watched or imagined, men with women, men with men, women with women, orgy, under age, animals..........), length of time to erection, length of time to ejaculation, with lube or without, quantity of ejaculate, force of ejaculation, sounds you make, pleasure rating on a scale, guilt (or other emotions) rating on a scale, behaviors you demonstrate after ejaculation,.......... I'm sure you can cum up with others.

When completed, return here and publish your results. Then we'll compare notes.

[Napoléon]

Gimme a sec while I write out a few lines on these ridiculously expansive questions.

[brewer]

Gimme a sec while I write out a few lines on these ridiculously expansive questions.

Please use ejaculate to write with. Ya know, keeping within the thread guidelines. Expansive? You may need multiple collections.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The primary effect of watching porn is you get yelled at by the missus for not closing the window when she brings a buyer to the house.

The primary effect of masturbation is a sticky keyboard.

Boru

[The Valkyrie]

You watch porn.

You get horny.

You masturbate.

No negative results - except perhaps a bit of a mess...

[CapnAwesome]

It makes you feel great.