Porn making me insecure

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One more thing about the adverse impacts of porn I need to add. Porn can jeopardize that intimate connection with our loved one and psychologically relegate him or her into nothing more than a collection of body parts.

I don't want anything artificial to hinder that deep physical/emotional/spiritual connection I have with my wife. Now that is intense & way better than any porno.
 

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I know you didn't mean it literally but it's not the porn making you feel that way. Sure, it helps a whole bunch but if it weren't for you accepting it as a potential reality or reality then you wouldn't feel anything. This coming from someone who use to think about the same.
 
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I feel one of the issues is that it also creates the desire to achieve instant gratification instead of actually trying to connect with a real life human being. I cant prove this, but I think the rapidly declining birth rate in Japan and the "herbivore men" phenomenon they have there is a result of porn use.
I just realized I love to hear you talk. Always so thoughtful. And I agree with your previous statement that if it depresses you, you should stop.
 

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I just realized I love to hear you talk. Always so thoughtful. And I agree with your previous statement that if it depresses you, you should stop.

I'm not speaking, I'm writing lol, but thanks. I have a handful of people on here that don't like what I have to say but I don't really care what a bunch of anonymous trolls on the internet actually think.
 
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I'm not speaking, I'm writing lol, but thanks. I have a handful of people on here that don't like what I have to say but I don't really care what a bunch of anonymous trolls on the internet actually think.
Har! Har! I stand corrected. Lol! Goob.

I cannot see how others cannot stand hearing someone ,excuse me, cannot stand to read what someone thinks through.
 

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I feel one of the issues is that it also creates the desire to achieve instant gratification instead of actually trying to connect with a real life human being. I cant prove this, but I think the rapidly declining birth rate in Japan and the "herbivore men" phenomenon they have there is a result of porn use.
You might like to look at this(bit of a long read).Women are expected to go home and take care of the baby and forget the carrier they fought to build.It's not proof,but along with porn it could be why.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex
 
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In moderation porn can be an enhancement to a healthy sex life, but I consider it a vice just like alcohol, cigarettes, gambling, drugs, prostitution, etc. They are all addictive in their own way and few people know how to keep things in moderation.
 

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Used to have that effect on me too but then I grew more comfortable with myself over time. After all, it's all I'm ever gonna get so I thought I'd just make the most of what I have.

Sure I still want to have a bigger dick, be taller, have better complexion, etc., but then these are things I can't change and there aren't any points in dwelling too much over it.
 
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The more porn I watch the more I think it makes me feel insecure about endowment, performance and body issues.

Any one else feel this way??
I think this is natural for a lot of people... I definitely feel insecure about porn at times. But I have other good qualities... Like a proper and respectable career! So I use things like that to make me feel better about myself lol.
 
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The more porn I watch the more I think it makes me feel insecure about endowment, performance and body issues.

Any one else feel this way??

No. I remember as a Queensland dweller having to travel to the Tweed, just across the border to source porn. It's never caused me to feel insecure, maybe just more kinkier.

I use porn as fertilizer for my imagination...so to say. Just distinguish between right and wrong, good and bad.
 
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Change what you watch. That could do wonders for you. Watch girl solo stuff. (or guys but for sake of examples I'm saying females) Softcore porn. No men to be compared to.
Hentai or SFM (source film maker) stuff is all 100% fake wonderful bullshit. Less likely to get insecure over it. Might be wise to avoid NTR/Netorare if you are dealing with inferiority insecurities. NTR = cuckold.
Watch amateur porn instead of pro porn. Waaaaaay more average size dicks in amateur porn. Way more average sized dicks than big/huge dicks in amateur. Typically more realistic women. That is a bonus as you will be less likely to have unrealistic expectations.

Try photos (not gifs), audio, or literotica. These are all low bar stimulus. Porn is high bar, meaning thats a whole lot of stimulation being shoved into your eyeballs. Too much of a good thing leads to desensitization. Meaning you need more and more to get the same effect.
Avoid compilations, that is like porn but on steroids.

You could always cut porn out all together and just use imagination. That realistically the best option. Though I would work down to it through lowering the stimulus slowly like. Pro porn - amateur porn - solo videos- amateur solo - photos - audio - literotica - IMAGINATION *forms rainbow* High left and low right.

Odds are if you can't bring yourself to quit it... you have a problem. Such as talking yourself out of it by. Making excuses. Flat out refusing. Quitting but going back just for "a bit" . Quitting and to a flat out binge fest. Basically you can't stop in some way you always come back or never leave period.

Lots of men have insecurities. Insecurities are normal. Insecurities are also unsexy as fuck in general. Work through yours, destroy them. That will put you leaps and bounds ahead of the pack. Big dick smig dick. Your confidence >>> his dick size. Makes you more secure as a person, as a man. Realize size is all relative. Men and women vary. Some sizes work better on different people. You simply cannot be perfect. If you are perfect for one person with your 8x6 man slab you may be absolute shit to someone with a much smaller set of genitals/orifices

Take steps to start improving whatever performance issues you may have. If they are unfixable, learn get arounds. Get creative, how can you still fuck even though you have this issue? What could you do to make it less of an issue?

I don't know exactly what you mean by body issues because depending on how I interpret that, it could mean a number of things. Do something about them if they are something like your health or you are unhappy with how out of shape you may be. If it is something like your nose, like something that is just aesthetic. Learn to not give a shit. Love your nose, its longozzy's nose, its fucking awesome. If it is something that is medically wrong with you, learn to work with or around it. If genuinely have a deformity that cannot be realistically fix or something like that, you are going to have to take that on the chin and realize hey there isn't really anything I can do about it, so I'm not going to give a fuck about it. Letting it eat me up only makes me feel bad which in turn makes me adopt poor body language and give out negative signals. Self cockblocking. Instead I shall compensate with confidence, sexual know how, humor,skills, etc.


There is your solution to your porn issue and there are somethings to think about concerning your other issues. Hope you get something out it.
 
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One more thing about the adverse impacts of porn I need to add. Porn can jeopardize that intimate connection with our loved one and psychologically relegate him or her into nothing more than a collection of body parts.

I don't want anything artificial to hinder that deep physical/emotional/spiritual connection I have with my wife. Now that is intense & way better than any porno.
Aw! :)Jeff you two sound so much like me and my husband. ;)