Pompeii, some naughty Roman 2000 years ago had this painting on the wall of their living room.

So, I've been debating about rather or not I should tell about my personal experience with porn since yesterday. Finally decided that I will. I've never really opened up about this to anyone, this is a first for me:

Literally the biggest regret of my entire life is ever having looked at porn, and I'm a man who has many regrets. When I was in 6th grade I had a friend who told me that you could find pictures of naked girls online, which was news to me, believe it or not. I immediately went home and looked, being curious about the female body as many boys of that age are. Little did I know at the time that had started down a path of addiction. My parents were computer illiterate boomers who knew nothing about internet safety; putting up firewalls that block porn sites or even how to check web browser history, and I had a locking door to my room, so I had pretty much free reign to search for whatever I wanted online. I found myself looking at porn more and more from then on, until I reached a point where I was sometimes masturbating 3 or 4 times a day.

I was addicted, there is no other word for it. Someone said earlier in this thread that you can't become addicted to porn, that is just straight up false, my testimony is proof of it's addictive properties. I found myself trying to quit time and time again over the years, but just like someone who is addicted to any other vice, be it alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, etc., the call of pornography just kept pulling me back. I would quit for awhile, but the pull was always there calling to me from the back of my brain, and I would have one bad day where I just needed my fix, the sweet release of an orgasm to cope with stress, and next thing you know I would be back to looking at it daily again.

And like anything that you get too much of, the amount of pornography I consumed caused me to get bored with what I saw far too often. That in turned caused me to seek out kinkier and kinkier material just to stave off that boredom.

I am currently "clean", but that addiction is always there in the back of my mind, urging me to look at some porn, especially when I'm under stress.

And it's not just the addiction that is bad about pornography. Pornography changed the ways I viewed women. It caused me to develop very specific and strong preferences for nude attractiveness that will make it very difficult to ever find a wife who meets those standards. It caused me to develop kinks that I rather wish I didn't have. Pornography has caused me more pain than just about anything else in my life, to be quite frank, and I have many forms of chronic physical pain.

Lets get down to the nitty gritty, some of the other negatives of pornography:

-It causes people who view porn to have unrealistic expectations about penis size. Let's face it, the average man is not packing 8+ inches of thick meat in his pants, in fact the largest penis size study ever done found the average erect male penis to be just 5.17 inches long (bone pressed) and 4.59 inches in circumference, both substantially smaller figures than the average porn penis, even the average in homemade porn videos. Average and smaller guys are often too embarrassed to appear in homemade porn, leading to pornography skewing beliefs about what is average for a male penis. And professionally made porn with average or smaller than average guys only exists in the form of videos designed to cater to men who have a fetish about being humiliated for their small size. Porn footage of women being satisfied by average or smaller guys is nearly non-existent, which helps feed into average and smaller men feeling unwanted shame for their size. Women who view porn are more likely to expect more than they're going to get from the average guy in bed, both in terms of size and staying power in most cases.

-It causes some men to begin to view women as sexual objects whose only function is to sexually gratify men. The prevalence of readily assessable simulated non-consensual porn and psudo non-consensual porn has most assuredly lead to the increase in rape culture over the years.

-It also causes men to develop often unrealistic expectations for the nude female body, which in turn leads to more and more women getting cosmetic surgery done in an attempt to look like porn stars. Because the so called "innie" vulva is so much more common in porn than the so called "outie" vulva, many women with "outies" feel shame and have labiaplasty done to modify the appearance of their vulva. The same shame is often felt by women who have large areolas, due to to rarity of large areolas in pornography. Then there is of course pornography leading to more and more men preferring large breasts, which has caused many women to feel like they need to get implants when they don't need them.

-A substantial number of porn stars, both professional and amateur, feel regret for appearing in porn later in life. You need only search and you can find the testimonies of many of these women, many of which are pretty damning, especially in regards to the professional porn industry. 

-The professional porn industry in particular is well known for being unscrupulous. There have been well documented cases of professional porn companies exploiting women, casting underage girls, even sex trafficking them. One of the most famous cases was the site "GirlsDoPorn", who fraudulently coerced young women to appear in porn videos. The site was closed in 2019 after several of the women sued them, and the women subsequently sued Pornhub, alleging that Pornhub's parent company knew that the girls were coerced and hosted the videos on their sites anyway, which is one of the things that lead to Pornhub removing millions of videos last year.

-The amateur porn industry, including OnlyFans, is less controversial that the professional porn industry, though there have been multiple arrested individuals who have admitted to using sites like OnlyFans to host child porn and even sell sex slaves. A bipartisan coalition in the US House of Representatives earlier this month called on the Department of Justice to investigate sites like OnlyFans over their lack of safeguards, which is likely one of the reasons why the payment processors gave OnlyFans the ultimatum that caused them to ban pornography. 

it's just an opinion from personal experience, in the end of the day it all comes down to what kind of person you are deep inside

and there are many people like me - and many will be dragged into the pornohorror for no reason because it is overpromoted as being "good for everyone" but it's not, some people get hurt from the pornified society and there's no way around it

I don't expect anyone to agree especially here, I know the demographics of this place well, I'm just expressing my opinion and experience :)

So, I've been debating about rather or not I should tell about my personal experience with porn since yesterday. Finally decided that I will. I've never really opened up about this to anyone, this is a first for me:

Literally the biggest regret of my entire life is ever having looked at porn, and I'm a man who has many regrets. When I was in 6th grade I had a friend who told me that you could find pictures of naked girls online, which was news to me, believe it or not. I immediately went home and looked, being curious about the female body as many boys of that age are. Little did I know at the time that had started down a path of addiction. My parents were computer illiterate boomers who knew nothing about internet safety; putting up firewalls that block porn sites or even how to check web browser history, and I had a locking door to my room, so I had pretty much free reign to search for whatever I wanted online. I found myself looking at porn more and more from then on, until I reached a point where I was sometimes masturbating 3 or 4 times a day.

I was addicted, there is no other word for it. Someone said earlier in this thread that you can't become addicted to porn, that is just straight up false, my testimony is proof of it's addictive properties. I found myself trying to quit time and time again over the years, but just like someone who is addicted to any other vice, be it alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, etc., the call of pornography just kept pulling me back. I would quit for awhile, but the pull was always there calling to me from the back of my brain, and I would have one bad day where I just needed my fix, the sweet release of an orgasm to cope with stress, and next thing you know I would be back to looking at it daily again.

And like anything that you get too much of, the amount of pornography I consumed caused me to get bored with what I saw far too often. That in turn caused me to seek out kinkier and kinkier material just to stave off that boredom.

I am currently "clean", but that addiction is always there in the back of my mind, urging me to look at some porn, especially when I'm under stress.

And it's not just the addiction that is bad about pornography. Pornography changed the ways I viewed women. It caused me to develop very specific and strong preferences for nude attractiveness that will make it very difficult to ever find a wife who meets those standards. It caused me to develop kinks that I rather wish I didn't have. Pornography has caused me more pain than just about anything else in my life, to be quite frank, and I have many forms of chronic physical pain.

Lets get down to the nitty gritty, some of the other negatives of pornography:

-It causes people who view porn to have unrealistic expectations about penis size. Let's face it, the average man is not packing 8+ inches of thick meat in his pants, in fact the largest penis size study ever done found the average erect male penis to be just 5.17 inches long (bone pressed) and 4.59 inches in circumference, both substantially smaller figures than the average porn penis, even the average in homemade porn videos. Average and smaller guys are often too embarrassed to appear in homemade porn, leading to pornography skewing beliefs about what is average for a male penis. And professionally made porn with average or smaller than average guys only exists in the form of videos designed to cater to men who have a fetish about being humiliated for their small size. Porn footage of women being satisfied by average or smaller guys is nearly non-existent, which helps feed into average and smaller men feeling unwanted shame for their size. Women who view porn are more likely to expect more than they're going to get from the average guy in bed, both in terms of size and staying power in most cases.

-It causes some men to begin to view women as sexual objects whose only function is to sexually gratify men. The prevalence of readily assessable simulated non-consensual porn and psudo non-consensual porn has most assuredly lead to the increase in rape culture over the years.

-It also causes men to develop often unrealistic expectations for the nude female body, which in turn leads to more and more women getting cosmetic surgery done in an attempt to look like porn stars. Because the so called "innie" vulva is so much more common in porn than the so called "outie" vulva, many women with "outies" feel shame and have labiaplasty done to modify the appearance of their vulva. The same shame is often felt by women who have large areolas, due to to rarity of large areolas in pornography. Then there is of course pornography leading to more and more men preferring large breasts, which has caused many women to feel like they need to get implants when they don't need them.

-A substantial number of porn stars, both professional and amateur, feel regret for appearing in porn later in life. You need only search and you can find the testimonies of many of these women, many of which are pretty damning, especially in regards to the professional porn industry. 

-The professional porn industry in particular is well known for being unscrupulous. There have been well documented cases of professional porn companies exploiting women, casting underage girls, even sex trafficking them. One of the most famous cases was the site "GirlsDoPorn", who fraudulently coerced young women to appear in porn videos. The site was closed in 2019 after several of the women sued them, and the women subsequently sued Pornhub, alleging that Pornhub's parent company knew that the girls were coerced and hosted the videos on their sites anyway, which is one of the things that lead to Pornhub removing millions of videos last year.

-The amateur porn industry, including OnlyFans, is less controversial than the professional porn industry, though there have been multiple arrested individuals who have admitted to using sites like OnlyFans to host child porn and even sell sex slaves. A bipartisan coalition in the US House of Representatives earlier this month called on the Department of Justice to investigate sites like OnlyFans over their lack of safeguards, which is likely one of the reasons why the payment processors gave OnlyFans the ultimatum that caused them to ban pornography. 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/aug/19/onlyfans-to-ban-adult-material-after-pressure-from-payment-processors

"Hey guys, you know the thing that the brings in 99% of our users? Let's ban that shit."

Cos that worked out so well for Tumblr.

How is Tumblr doing today? is it relevant at any form?

I ask because I never used it so I have no idea how it works and how big was the impact of when porn was forbidden in there. It read somewhere people ran for reddit after it.