Whatever someone wants to do with their body is up to them (within legal limits)

To the people who say “she’s selling her body”, I say this:

So are you. So am I. So is everybody. A miner or oil rigger is selling their body to be used as labour for 10 hours a day.

An accountant is selling their body to sit at a desk and crunch numbers for ten hours a day.

We’re all selling our bodies to corporations every day in exchange for a paycheque. If a person is comfortable using nudity for it, more power to 'em.

About 10 years ago or so I got really into porn. There was a group of girls I found and really liked. I thought, they were getting paid and doing it of their own free will. No harm. Over the years I saw the outcomes many of them came to. Some died, some became addicts, none seemed ok. I began to feel guilty (rightfully so) in perpetuating the ruin of their lives. I swore it off entirely. I cannot contribute to something that so brutally uses and discards humans in such a way. I’m sorry I ever did and I regret it very much.

I like looking at it :3

Jokes aside, porn is a type of media, and people who think porn influences behavior should also be extremely afraid of kids who play GTA, or watch any media that depicts violence.

Porn is illegal in the country I’m born in so I kinda feel “privilaged” to have emigrated and can watch it any time I like. (My state doesn’t have Age Verification Laws yet xD)

As to actually watching… eh… kinda asexual… so… eh… 🤷‍♂️

Or maybe just depression…

Same as any purely pleasurable outlet: great in moderation, terrible when one can’t self regulate. I find it easy to avoid rape-y, tween, unrealistic porn in which I don’t find any sexual gratification. There’s plenty of small creators out there that produce wholesome sexual content.

I like it for sexual discovery and exploration. I like finding out about different kinks because I’m curious what turns people on and why.

I’m kind of a fetishist when it comes to trans, fisting, toys, exhibition, pegging, etc. It’s a bit monkey see, monkey do with porn. My partner and I watch some together and get curious to try things out.

I have to draw the line at shit, piss, puke, and blood, though.

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For some reason society decided that it was not ok to sell sexual acts. However, if you film yourself doing it, it’s allowed. 🤷

I was raised religious, and fell for the whole “porn makes you unable to form real, properly attached bonds with another human” thing. Then I started reading the scientific background of that stuff, and - while you definitely can damage your ability to form strong relationships with porn (or just about anything else) - that made me far more porn positive.

Maybe this is just me, but I actually watched/looked at far more porn when I felt deeply ashamed of doing so. Now that I’m OK with it, and it just feels normal, it’s comparable to a tool I have access to.

It’s about freedom and deserves protection.

Have to be wary of it and it’s much better to let it go, kinda like booze. There are worse forms of brain poison.

why you feel the way you do.

Because it is important if something is useful to me, and it’s none of my business what other people watch.

I don’t consume much traditional porn but I do read a lot of erotica and look at a lot of hentai and yiff. I usually masturbate at least once a day, usually right before bed ao I can fall asleep easier and sometimes in the mornings to get me out of bed. Sounds weird but super depressed and I know that when I just can’t find a reason to get out of bed if I can get myself to masturbate it usually leaves me in a more active state, not necessarily better but able to start soing stuff. Consumed a lot of real porn when I was a teenager. Only had sex a few times, a few men and a couple women and it’s probably just me but porn never set unrealistic standards for sex for me. The only real porn I watch nowadays is basically homemade redgifs clips posted in a butt stuffing discord im in. I feel like I have a harder time masturbating to my imagination nowadays, but I’m also masturbating a lot more than I used too and am also on brain meds so hard to tell if that’s an affect of porn overconsumption or not.

I’ve made some porn, I have over 100k views on redgifs, really blew my mind cause it’s about as amateur as it gets. Was really nice to feel attractive, desireable even. Wouldn’t have minded doing it for a living but I doubt I could have made real money and I can’t wnjoy anal that much anymore anyway. Plus I think it would have been hard to keep it fresh, and I wouldn’t like to show my face ao that would have limited me quite a bit.

I wouldn’t call myself addicted to porn, more like I self medicate with masturbation and the types of porn I consume (erotica, hentai, yiff) are a tool for that. It might be a problem if I had a partner, masturbating too frequently makes it harder to get aroused and cum, but I don’t date cause I’d be a terrible worthless partner, so it’s not a problem.

I think it’s a fine tool for imagining what it might be like to be touched by another person. I hope to experience that someday.