Porn Addiction

Interesting article on a study about viewing porn:

https://bigthink.com/health/porn-users-abstain-withdrawal/?utm_campaign=weeklynewsletter&utm_source=rejoiner&utm_medium=email&utm_content=02%2F09%2F23+Smarter+Faster&rjnrid=dk4bL80

Interesting, yes, but a valid study?? I don't know….I don't see anything conclusive that came out of the study. Per the article:

• First, it didn’t break down the results by sex. (Note - this was a short term study of only 7 days).
• Second, the research was conducted on undergraduates in Malaysia, a sexually conservative country where pornography use is frowned upon
• Regardless, this inability to follow directions (abstinent group cheated), while certainly realistic for anyone attempting to halt an addictive behavior, could have blunted any potential withdrawal symptoms.

“These null findings… provide preliminary evidence that the average regular pornography user who uses pornography somewhat regularly (i.e., a few times a week) generally does not experience withdrawal-like symptoms " I don't see how this is really proves anything!!

A more controlled - and larger and more diverse sample group - would make for a better study. Here's another interesting article about a study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine revealed there are recreational, compulsive and distressed porn viewers that says (in some cases) pron is actually healthy!!

https://nypost.com/2017/03/09/there-are-three-types-of-porn-watcher-and-only-one-is-healthy/

from the link: a staggering 110 minutes of porn per week.

Staggering? That is not even the equivalent of an ordinary length movie.

But that aside, let's hope that being on sites like Zity isn't included in the researchers definition of watching (reading) porn.

And here too I read that there was a preponderance of women respondents.

And actually 830 participants is often the standard number in surveys and studies. 600 is around the lower number of participants required for a more or less representative sample. It all depends on the targeted population and how randomly participants are chosen.

Anyway, I often get the impression that some surveys are really desperately doing their utmost best to classify watching porn as an addiction. I call it ideological predisposition … ha ha

And I said it was an ‘interesting’ article. A euphemism for ‘at least worth reading’ … ha ha

Staggering? That is not even the equivalent of an ordinary length movie.

But that aside, let's hope that being on sites like Zity isn't included in the researchers definition of watching (reading) porn.

And here too I read that there was a preponderance of women respondents.

And actually 830 participants is often the standard number in surveys and studies. 600 is around the lower number of participants required for a more or less representative sample. It all depends on the targeted population and how randomly participants are chosen.

Anyway, I often get the impression that some surveys are really desperately doing their utmost best to classify watching porn as an addiction. I call it ideological predisposition … ha ha

And I said it was an ‘interesting’ article. A euphemism for ‘at least worth reading’ … ha ha

That goes along with the saying: Statistics never lie, but liars use statistics! 😀

All of these studies by so-called “experts,” are a bunch of crap. I prefer porn to real relationships, because in the real world, you often end up in an ongoing series of dealing with obstacles, and arguments, when you should be having the best time of your life. I’ve had some terrible experiences with rejection and women who jumped from guy to guy. Porn has never broken my heart.

All of these studies by so-called “experts,” are a bunch of crap.

Porn has never broken my heart.

That is nicely and truly said.

I'm certain that many disapproving experts also have ulterior moral motives, if not even outright religious ones. And even if they are 'just' moral gloom and doom nuts, they also have a vested interest in keeping something problematic, even if only to guarantee them a source of work/income in writing disapproving articles and books, which go down like hotcakes with large segments of the population.

They all know that 'porn' is something that has existed in one form or another throughout all of recorded history, even in paleolithic times. And yet they pretend it could be perdition.

They are people who have cried 'wolf' several hundred thousand times too many for them to be taken seriously.