Ye Olde Chosun warns of the horrors of porn addiction:
Pornography addiction was once seen as a problem for adolescents, and it was only cyber nannies aimed at the young that screened out “adult” content. The sites also usually require customers to prove their age. But is porn just a danger to children? Experts say no.
One of the worst aspects of porn addiction is that it can discourage the normal sexual relationship between couples. Prof. Kim Sung of Korea Bible University, a counselor at the Center for Internet Addiction Prevention and Counseling, said, “The porn addiction cycle gets shorter and shorter as addicts look for ever stronger thrills. Inevitably they become numb in normal relationships.”
There are physical problems associated with porn addiction, too:
Porn addiction can also damage your health. For many it is difficult to watch porn in the daytime when other family members are around, so people usually watch it in a dark room late at night, and as a result suffer from lack of sleep, fatigue and deteriorating eyesight.
Which is why your Uncle Marmot says you should always watch your porn in a well-lit room.
If addiction becomes serious and leads to paraphilias like voyeurism and exhibitionism, it can result in legal punishment or require psychiatric treatment. It also makes it difficult for the addict to live a normal social life at school or work. The images linger in the mind and often distract addicts from concentrating on work. They sometimes leave the office to go to adult-only cyber cafés, and some serious addicts turn to sexual violence in trying to imitate what they have seen.
Oh my!
Luckily, there is a cure — straight out of “A Clockwork Orange”:
Like many other addictions, porn addiction is not easy to cure. The most widely accepted treatment is telephone counseling, often accompanied by cognitive behavioral therapy. For example, doctors create an unpleasant atmosphere around the experience, such as making the patients smell garbage or giving them mild electric shocks while watching porn. This is intended to program their brains to remember watching porn as a negative experience. Diverting the patients’ attention to other things such as sports and music also helps.
I blame Youporn.
(HT to Joshua)
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Korea Bible University.
I didn’t know this existed. It’s gotta be fairly new in existence.
theKorean would benefit from attending KBU.
the chosun article, it sounds familiar. 10 years ago familiar.
This blog entry seems like it would be interesting.
But I was too busy jerking off to read it.
Thank god there are healthier alternatives like anmhas, business clubs, room salons, and pink houses.
They didn’t mention that excessive porn watching can lead to repetitive-stress disorder of the wrists, making it difficult to kill those 4 hours at work by looking busy until the boss goes home and you can leave.
What the hell are they taking about! A little porn is good for you. Nothing beats stress more than watching a gal suck on a big dick. I especially enjoy the Japanese stuff.
Korea could learn a thing or two from the Japanese. They’re just raking in the cash making porn and exporting it. Korea is missing out on fruitful business.
I fapped to 2girls1cup once. True story.
Okay. The science behind the article might not be the best, but the point is neverthless well taken. Watching porn alone in your room is not a valuable way to spend minutes of your valuable lifetime.
I estimate spending an average one hour a day on porn at the peak of my habit. I can’t help thinking now that the time would have been better spent doing something (anything) else.
Not coincidentally, since I finally began to exert some control over my little habit of imagination, I find myself involved in a significantly greater number of activities with a significantly greater number of people.
Take it from the old jerk-off guy. All the time you’re spending with the holographic image girls is time you’re not spending with real people. Plus, the porn images really do stay in your head when you’re doing the deed with your significant other. If you’re to the point where you’re constantly thinking about the porno while doing it with your significant other, I suggest that it’s time to give the manufactured fantasies a rest.
You don’t have to wait till you reach that point when it all gets real (mid-life or later?) to regret the wasted time. You can change now. Besides, do you want to be such a spiritual and mental weakling that you’ll let a bunch of bozos in LA control your mind with poorly made videos? Be strong.
Sign me off as kpmsprtd, a jerker or former jerker, who is trying really hard to change.
Triple J TV from Australia had a fairly interesting discussion on the issue of porn addiction a couple of weeks back: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/.....377296.htm
kpmsprtd that was bold and brave and you deserve a pat on the back for putting it out there to make an unpopular point.
Define “addicted” to porn. The article doesn’t make such a distinction, just that it’s bad.
I find myself involved in a significantly greater number of activities with a significantly greater number of people.
Like orgies?
Define “addicted” to porn. The article doesn’t make such a distinction, just that it’s bad.
If you have to ask then you probably are.
Speaking of yourporn. I am glad that the editors over at the Korea Times did not see the pornographic link you posted a while back. Especially since your blog is posted on their site,lol.
Mom was right…it will make you go blind!
“people usually watch it in a dark room late at night, and as a result suffer from lack of sleep, fatigue and deteriorating eyesight.”
Electric Shock Therapy as you watch porn? Wow I usually pay extra for that, and now you tell me there is a free clinic for it?
Reminds me of a story quite a few years ago of a guy who took a few hundred pills of Viagra, crushed them into a powder, and then spread the half powder on his genitals and injected the other half right in Mr. Happy. The pain was so great they ironically took him to Ewha Women’s University Hospital, where they put him in an “Erection Restrainer”. The only explanation of what the device was my friend offering “I dunno, a fat chick?”.
I guess it could have been worse, he could have been addicted to porn.
My addiction to porn has cost me a hell of a lot less than my addiction to actual women, which has probably used up hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of my life, while all the porn has been free and I doubt I’ve spent more than 200 hours tossing off in my lifetime.
I think the problem is the addiction, not specifically porn.
Addiction to anything is unhealthy.
Porn itself does not have to be harmful.
Some couples find a bit of porn here and there usefully stimulating. Porn may also help celibate people releave some of their pent up frustrations.
Ironically, studies show that countries that have a higher availability of porn have lower rates of sexual violence, not the reverse as is always portrayed. It’s believed that in viewing porn, people who might otherwise commit a sexual assault, are able to defuse themselves with the help of the visual aid. I don’t know if that’s true or not, I don’t know, but the per capita numbers say, more porn=fewer sexual assaults.
@17 the same argument is used for prostitution too, but it seems like the result (higher or lower 5exual violence) depends on the source of the study.
What the article conveniently forgets to mention is that viewing pornography is no different than gambling or any other potentially addictive activity: it is not problematic in most people’s lives. Research that relies on the observation that pornography stimulates the brain to argue that it is as addictive as drugs is of questionable methodology because it doesn’t take into account that sex stimulates the brain. Is sex dangerous?
madar, do you know of any good sources that support your statement?
From google I found this,
http://www.law.stanford.edu/di.....0paper.pdf
But it doesn’t look entirely convincing to me. If you look at the graphs at the very bottom he has two that contradict his hypothesis and one that supports it. The effect seems to depend on the ratio of males to females.
By the way, I like his implicit assumption that home internet access equals consumption of pornography.
“The effect seems to depend on the ratio of males to females.”
Mmm, in other words, watching lesbian porn is infinitely dangerous for straight men?
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