Is Porn Rewiring Our Brains?

[MoneyForNothing]

The worst thing that porn does is sugarcoat sex. Porn doesn't reveal just how truly deeply disgusting and messy sex really is.

Funny you should say so, because I find nearly all porn disgusting.

And what about body type – do you find that you’re comparing your partner to porn stars and finding flaws that perhaps you never noticed before resulting in dissatisfaction?

If A saturates your neuroreceptors more than B, you will feel less from B after A for a period of time until your brain normalizes. You can play it a different way. Let's say, you could watch a porno and then take that arousal you are in to your partner. I don't think there is anything more than receptor decline involved.

 

[mexdude]

Another question: Do you think that straight porn is demeaning to women?

For instance, it seems to me that the women are always dominated by the men rather than showing a woman topping a man. Now don't get me wrong, I adore being dominated and taken roughly sometimes, but do you honestly expect to cum all over your woman's face as is so often portrayed in the movies? Guys, try to put yourself in the woman's place, would you want that done to you?

I really tought that what most scenes show was more about male dominacne than a woman really enjoying doing that (and sometimes even the actresses dont seem to enjoy it much) but once a girl i was talking to pretty described an average porn scene as a fantasy she had, still i do believe its more male power focused, thats why i dont watch much porn anymore, i really like when the woman in porn is the dominant, i once saw a japanese porn video where 5 girls pretty much have their way with a single weak guy against his will, and i liked it, ive seen other videos where the woman is the one in control, but yea there are few

 

[MoneyForNothing]

i once saw a japanese porn video where 5 girls pretty much have their way with a single weak guy against his will

That is the kind of thing I'd like to see more. Porn is primarily made for men that have the least chance of getting the real thing or want to do various criminal acts upon them. It certainly is mostly not made for my personality. The only thing I want to see is a girl having fun.

 

[D_Bemeslay Bugthorpe Boobtube III]

I find personally I have a slight "porn" addicting and most certainly it has re-wired my brain to think different ways. I think the biggest way porn has effected me is it has led me to experiment more. In a weird way, straight porn has led me to experiment with homosexuality. Since the woman is only half of the equation, the other half in straight porn isn't man but the penis. Like the previous poster has mentioned, this is the only part of the male body important in porn. Over the past few years, I find myself strangely attracted to a penis, but not a man. This has led to me jacking off with other straight, bi or gay men to compare, touch and pleasure our penises. When a gay or bi man tends to move for oral or nipple play or something like that, I tell them to back off. Its quite an interesting phenomena that I've never been able to fully explain in writing.

 

[helgaleena]

The worst thing that porn does is sugarcoat sex. Porn doesn't reveal just how truly deeply disgusting and messy sex really is.

Sex is sacred! It is meant as worship! Messy yes, but so is baking cookies! Disgust is a learned response and I feel sorry for you dear.

Surely you didn't learn your disgust from the porn? It's not very realistic but that is to be expected. It's the cartoon version of sex with live actors.

 

[LGX]

For every porno I watch, the smaller my penis grows. So yes, porn does it.

The thing is, porn is so real....well people ARE having sex so in our brains we think that is how it is supposed to be. I'm sorry, but if the pizza delivery man was going to sex a customer up, then I think he would more than likely a. have an average or small penis b. is fat, flabby and greasy c. is unattractive. d. smells bad and finally will give you the worst sex of your life. Come to think of it, I think he would be fired..

 

[mexdude]

That is the kind of thing I'd like to see more. Porn is primarily made for men that have the least chance of getting the real thing or want to do various criminal acts upon them. It certainly is mostly not made for my personality. The only thing I want to see is a girl having fun.

There is another series of vids where its about a fat guy with a 2 inch penis, that gets hanjobs or fucked from women, and all the vid the women complain about how small his penis is, yet they keep stroking or fucking him, its all about the lady, and women dominance over the guy, thats why i like some of those, at least its creative compared to the average porn vid

 

[Wrat]

Now that I have had a little time to think about it, I would say that I like some forms of porn because it is actually very similar to some of my own experiences. I can sometimes watch a clip and see myself having done the very same thing.

 

[dad4you]

Yes, it is rewiring my brain, and I think in a good way. Coming from a very anti-sex culture (mormon) I have a lot to make up for.

 

[Drifterwood]

I can't remember the last time I watched professional porn. To me it is boring boring boring. Almost all of my lovers have been far more entertaining in bed and elsewhere.

As we grow up sexually as a culture, I think we begin to see that pro porn is for people who aren't having or don't know much about sex.

 

[DavidXL]

. . . . Few porn movies illustrate the intimacy, beauty and sensuality that sex can be between true lovers. . . .

I'm probably one of the few men out there who usually prefers porn with people who look like they actually might care about each other at least a little. I like porn where people kiss, and I really don't like facials in porn. Might be one of the reasons I really like creampies in straight porn. Kind of funny how that's pretty much considered a fetish or unusual type of porn, when in reality it is closer to how sex usually is in the real world.

 

[ThongerDude]

ittibitti,
I totally agree that porn is desensitizing everyone. I can remember when I was a kid and just seeing a girl in a bra in a Sears catalogue was enough to give me a raging hard on. Sex was much more exciting before porn was so prevalent on the internet and in porn movies. I do enjoy watching porn. I love watching it all. m-f, mmf, mmmf, ffm, anal, rimming, golden showers, dp, facials, CIM shots, etc. Well you get the point.

Porn has fulfilled some of the fantasies that I may never experience in real life. But I do wish that I can get excited seeing a girl's hard nipple poking thru her tee shirt. These days, I need at least some manual manipulation (her touching my cock) before I can get it up. A blowjob helps get me harder faster.

 

[joeburger]

I agree also, especially the last part. Studio porn has become more like status quo, everyone should look like this, everyone should have sex like this........kind of dictatorship.

 

[midlifebear]

I enjoyed the old, early porn of the 70's, primarily because there were dumb plots and hysterical sketches. Can't remember the name of the "artistic work" but in one film a guy seduces the young daughter of a sex-crazed woman. He finds work at a brothel that caters to women. The mother shows up, wraps him completely in saran wrap (except for this substantial penis) so he cannot move his arms. She then chases him all over the brothel through the rest of the scenes trying to catch him and cut off his penis. It was actually very funny watching him hop through the rest of the scenes, his tool flopping up and down.

Porn since the early 80's is mostly the same repetitive crap and the most violent gay porn which involves S&M and fist fucking does absolutely nothing for me.

However, my sex life as a young man in San Francisco from 1966 to 1979-ish was much more interesting than anything I have ever seen in a porn film. And it continues to be, even though the closest fitting condom costs me €5 each and I spend a small fortune every month just to be a good boy scout.

 

[texas69x]

I personally separate in my mind porn. Porn is fantasy, not reality. I watch porn for entertainment, and face reality in my life. And much of what I see in porn is not what I want in my real life. On the other hand, porn has given me ideas and fantasies that I end up exploring with my sex partner. My expectations are not that my experience match what I see in porn, but that my experience take on my own personality and twists and preferences as well as those of my partner to exceed, for me, anything appearing in a movie.

 

[hud01]

ittibitti,
I totally agree that porn is desensitizing everyone. I can remember when I was a kid and just seeing a girl in a bra in a Sears catalogue was enough to give me a raging hard on. Sex was much more exciting before porn was so prevalent on the internet and in porn movies. I do enjoy watching porn. I love watching it all. m-f, mmf, mmmf, ffm, anal, rimming, golden showers, dp, facials, CIM shots, etc. Well you get the point.

Porn has fulfilled some of the fantasies that I may never experience in real life. But I do wish that I can get excited seeing a girl's hard nipple poking thru her tee shirt. These days, I need at least some manual manipulation (her touching my cock) before I can get it up. A blowjob helps get me harder faster.

When you were 14-16 you also had to hide a hardon in school. Don't think it has as much to do with porn as getting older and more experienced and the hormones decreasing.

 

[ArtofDesire]

Great comments guys! Glad to see I'm not alone in my thoughts on this subject.

 

[mexdude]

probably if the person is not mature enough, it may change something in the overall view of sex, but as for me, once i got aroused by watching the abs of a girl, so, porn has not changed my view on sex