Now with today’s age where almost everything is sexualized, and everywhere you look there’s sexual implications on it. As a lonely teenager myself going through the “horny phase.” Things are not going good for me. How do you deal with impure thoughts? (No religion stuff plz lol)
You’re probably right about the hentai. I would argue that it’s just as easy to find the same sick fetishes being fulfilled in porn, though, if not technically outright as illegal as what is being portrayed in some hentai – I also would not say it is “usually” full of those things, although a lot of it is, like porn. Stay away from sick shit generally or you’ll be sliding down a path it’ll be difficult to escape from. The attraction that can develop to inanimate objects (drawings) over real people and the ramifications that can have on sex drive I think is a more compelling argument against hentai.
My main rec is mostly just to use more imagination. If art or dirty fanfic or whatever can help stimulate that, that’s far better than watching porn imo, both for the sake of not contributing to exploitation and for one’s own mental well-being.
Yeah I just think we should drop porn enteirely
For sure, I think porn generally is a cultural sickness. I think for a lot of us in the “west” and western-internet-hegemonic areas we might get hooked on it early because of the pervasiveness of it and lack of control (I was like 11 or 12 when I was first introduced to it), all my recs are just from my experience ofc.
Yeah, and children are having their first contact with porn earlier than ever
I watched my first porn clip when I was around 7, and got hooked to it when I was around nine. Guess where the porn was on? YouTube.
I’ve noticed that people in the west have been promoting it, even though it was considered bad a while ago, now all of a sudden it’s okay and “healthy?” I swear they’re fishy
I would highly recommend the Probably Canceled podcast if you’re interested in the push for “sex work acceptance” and pornography pushing etc. Marxist-Feminist and just based as hell. The term “sex work” comes from a neoliberal feminist who decided to try prostitution because she thought it would be fun, which for her apparently it was. For the vast vast majority, it isn’t. I’d also recommend the documentary Hot Girls Wanted on Netflix, it completely destroys the narrative that “amateur” porn is any better.
I apologize for recommending Hentai down below, it can have similar or different but still negative mental effects as porn. I do not think that it is all as heinous as it is being made out to be, as it’s just as simple to find heinous real-person pornography and not all hentai is disgusting pedo/zoophile shit. I utilized it (as in, the non-heinous shit) to distance myself from the effect of over-sexualizing people I knew irl and it worked for that pretty well, but probably had other negative effects like object-fetishization etc.
Thank you so much for recommending “Hot Girls Wanted!” I’ve yet to see it, but your description got me extremely interested. I always watched amateur from well known amateur channels, so I never felt guilty about watching women struggling in porn because I never watched “professional” porn. I thought amateur was free of that exploitation of women. I assume that this documentary might change that viewpoint. I can’t wait to see it!
You’re fine! I won’t demonize you for it :)) We all make mistakes, and the only forgiveness to it is when you learn and overcome it! I thought about it myself and saw what you meant by recommending hentai, there is some genres that aren’t fucked up as the other ones. However in the end it’s no better than actual porn. At least you changed your mind on that stand point, and I respect you for that, comrade!! :D
Btw what’s object fetishization? Would that include fetishizing unreal characters such as anime characters?