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Anonymous asked:
is it true that porn of any kind (erotica, audio, pics, etc) rots the brain? like, is there any truth to the idea that I’m damaging my brain permanently? I mainly like to read erotica on tumblr or ao3. I’ve also seen people refer to anyone who likes any type of porn as degenerates and sex pests.

batmanisagatewaydrug answered:
is this what we’re doing now. we’re calling people degenerates just for reading horny fanfic.
besties we are never ever never ever never ever never escaping conservative christianity.

sure whatever. porn rots holes in your brain. anything that makes you feel good is bad actually. if you derive joy from movies or food or seeing your friends that’s also deeply suspect and you should probably go to confession about it. if I’m being totally honest we should not stop with porn, having sex with other people is pretty fucked up. kind of predatory to desire another person carnally. probably we should all just go live in caves and think about god until we die a celibate death.

in my undergrad classes we talked about how periods of (relative) social progress are often followed by sharp conservative backlash, and I didn’t really get it until I lived through it with the 2016 election. and like a fucking goober I thought “well, at least this is as bad as it will ever get iny lifetime,” because I could never in ten million years could have predicted the protestant comeback tour convincing people that they’re psychologically diseased sex criminals if they so much as think about nutting

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      • HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        But fr tho, it’s important to not nut more than once every two days. Neural receptors get desensitised to the stimulus, and studies like “prevalence of masturbation and associated factors among older adults in four european countries” showed there were interesting correlations between it and depression.

        • AVincentInSpaceEnglish
          6·
          3 months ago

          so, thing i notice right off the bat about this study, youngest participant was age 60

          • HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            Why yes, the study did focus on older adults, as the title implied. It’s quite hard to find papers on younger individuals, given the nature of the topic

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
          2·
          3 months ago

          do you want to spread some more misinformation?

          the official swedish website for youth health information explicitly says that masturbation is not harmful, and that if anything it tends to make you feel better which is good.

          • HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            Masturbation, like most things, is not inherently harmful. In fact, it’s quite healthy, just like we both said

            It’s the process of masturbating too frequently that has problems associated with it