It's healthy if, like drinking alcohol, it's done in moderation. If it's an addiction then, much like drugs and alcohol, it is no longer healthy.

The thing is, not every person who looks at porn is addicted to it, and I think that's where your leap is taking you. Porn CAN be a good thing. Anything that's good for someone is good in moderation. Anything in excess isn't good- so the same is with porn, cigarettes, alcohol, gambling, etc. I think the reason you are having such a problem here is that you're making the leap and the assumption that all porn leads to a porn addiction- and that simply just isn't so.

It's unhealthy and addictive - end of story.

Porn is not good, makes guys thing about other women instead of just the one they are with. I think people are a little crazy to think its health. Its bad even if tampered with thats all. I was vary shocked to hear that women were giving the 'ok' about it. Oh well its a personal thing. As for my girlfriend and I no thanks.

You'll notice it's mostly men who say that porn is healthy. Men seem to think they are wired differently than women, when that really isn't the case and they are just looking for excuses to look at porn (isn't that a symptom of addiction? hmmmm). Addiction is never a good thing, even if you're addicted to something relatively benign like shopping. Normal people don't get addicted to porn. Like an addiction to shopping, or gambling, you have to be predisposed to addictive behavior. People get addicted to the internet, too, but does that mean we should protest internet use? Meh, I don't really care, I dislike porn for other reasons other than it's addictive nature.

I must be the most healthy guy walking around to date...lol j/p

There are people who are addicted to exercise. Yep- exercise. People are addicted to food, people are addicted to their jobs. Addiction is bad, that does not mean that exercising, eating and having a job are bad. Sex is normal and natural. Taking a photograph of something normal and natural does not suddenly change it into something obscene.

I don't have time to answer this Q. I have to get on shufuni.

I don't think there's anything wrong with a guy watching or reading porn as long as it doesn't get excessive. Sometimes it can get a guy in the mood.

yeh i agree. porn is NOT healthy but like most things it can be addictive. I don't think its good in moderation because it just keeps bringing you back to view more

it doesn't matter wheere you get your appitite as long as you eat at home. i am a healy female, and i like to watch porn. my partner likes to watch porn we watch it together, what can be wrong with that???

Many people think it wrong. It is healthy if you see it once in a while and not get addicted to it. It stimulates the sexual organs of the body and makes you well perpared. If you see it very often and get addicted to it , your sexual organs can become weak and in real life it may not work the way you want it, becuase you have seen too much of what you are not supposed to see. Overall Porn is BAD!

I think a lot of men use pornography as a "harmless" outlet for their natural tendencies to "spread their wild oats". In that respect, it can be healthy in maintaining a monogamous relationship. Like many things, however, using it to excess can be unhealthy.

I cant see how it can be "healthy", however, I dont see that there's a problem with a man, OR a woman looking at porn providing their partner is OK with it. I dont look at it myself because I believe that you're a better man for it and your relationship with your partner can be weakend by staring at other naked women.

It becomes an addiction only if you let it be. There are a lot of people who watch porn but are not addicted, you know, those days when you're feeling real horny and there's no one around.

its good up until they start getting chronic wrist pains

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say porn was quite healthy for a man. I don't think I would say porn is healthy or unhealthy. Addictions generally are not good things, but alot of good things can become addictions, eating for example, eating can become an addiction but eating is still probably a good thing. The fact that it can become an addiction does not mean it will, so until it becomes an addiction it might still be a good thing.

The fact of the matter is that men and women function differently both physically and mentally. Men produce testosterone on a daily basis and they need it to funtion, testeosterone enables men to build muscle and plays a crucial part in sexuality. Pornography shows and potrays people having sex, the sad thing is that most people in society don't know how to react to the subject of sex because we make it such a touchy issue when in reality sex is nothing more than a form of exercise to relieve stress. In modern day society pornography is used as a stimulating substance used to relieve stress. It's more commonly used among men because a man's testosterone automatically boosts up when he sees a woman, especially when she's naked, but all those things are natural things because that's how men are physically designed. An addiction is very strong but unlike alcohol and drugs pornography awakens a man's greatest desire and joy -- and that's the woman, remember the man was not created for the woman but the woman was created for the man therefore a man needs to have a woman in his life not just for sex but also for comfort. Alcohol and drugs are harmful but sex is not only a beautiful thing but also natural and very normal and what people don't realize is that the woman is often the source of the man's strength. People have never really understood sex in it's true meaning it's too highly overrated because western culture only promotes capitalism and vanity. People are very vain and hypocritical because they not only condemn people directly involved in making porn films and the same people spend tons of money on pornography helping it turn into a multi billion dollar industry - tha's pure hypocrisy. People are very vain because they spend a ton of money to watch good looking people have sex when that money you just spent could've been put to better use elsewhere -- it's very sad. For example imagine working 40 plus hours and going to a strip club and pissing your money away to a complete stranger who doesn't give a shit about you and only cares about your money -- she shows you her body while you piss all your money away - that's what happening every day. Pornography doesn't have to be an addiction, it can be used as a learning tool to learn about sex and become more open and comfortable with your sexuality just as a romantic film can be a great learning tool to help build a friendship and start a romantic bond. If a man finds himself watching long hours of porn -- the best advice is this - get up every morning and work out to build your confidence and boost up your testosterone and find a social environment that's convenient for you at night club, a bar, a mall etc ... but it needs to be a place that you'll find a lot of women and talk to and build friendships with as many women as you can -- and that will give you the upper edge and before youknow it you may not need to spend long hours in front of a tv watching beautiful girls have sex because you'll have more that enough beautiful women of your own - it's all about being realistic and working hard.

i dont know if porn is heathy i just dont view it as being a BAD thing...if one does it ALL day and spends all their money paying for porn then that is the begining of an addiction. EXAMPLE: Food is good for you....if you over eat then it's a bad thing....

Do some research into the lives of porn stars, most of whom eventually end up dead, addicted to drugs, disease ridden, and eventually discarded when they no longer meet a certain, sexual archtype, and then ask yourself the following question: How can something so bad for the people who perform be any better for the people who watch it?

What's the difference between porn or Oprah and bon bons every day? I don't particularly like either, but hopefully you get the point.

It might play a role in preventing desperate and unempathic people from becoming rapist by having an alternative way out to relieve their tension. Other than that, it is not good for those that have had moral up bringing as it could only undo all those hard works for the parents.

Do some research into the lives of porn stars. A great majority of them end up becoming drug addicts, and/or so disease ridden they can't even work anymore. A surprising number end up prematurely dead, via disease, overdose, or suicide. Those who stay in the industry for any amount of time, eventually end up aging beyond a usable archtype, and they get cast aside like trash. How can anything that is so bad for the people who perform it, be any better for the people who view it?

Actually, looking at porn is very destructive. You can't possibly keep looking at it and not get addicted, it's just not possible. It's one of those things where the more you have it the more you want it. Also, people will tell you that it is good for your body but I would argue there are other things to consider, like your sense of morality (spirit?) and your brain. Look up the chemical effects, it's really not good. The chemicals from making love are quite different than the neurotoxins that are released when lusting at porn. It is an insatiable appetite. Looking at it will only fuel the need for it later because it works much like heroin and is almost impossible to break the habit of. It actually kills the receptors of the happy chemicals in your brain like heavy drugs do and you form a dependency, and that is where addiction comes from. If you keep looking at porn, you will be addicted at some point. The reason why so many people indulge further into hardcore porn is because the shock value and pain releases more endorphins and dopamine to sate your pleasure causing the next viewing to require more and more and more of the chemicals to arouse you and make you feel somewhat happy and normal after, but it isn't a lasting effect and will fade away quickly because you have damaged the receptors in your brain. To feel normal and happy without porn after addiction you have to not view it for months to rebuild those damaged receptors. Over time it's also hard to resist lusting because those neurotoxins shrink your frontal lobe (right and wrong part of your brain) if you start looking at porn. I use to be addicted and I educated myself. Educate yourself. candeocan.com I'm not telling you to sign up, I didn't... just listen to the podcasts, they are incredible and easy to understand.

I think maybe you have substitued words here. If you look around you might see people saying that a man looking at porn is not out of the ordinary or is normal. I don't think you find many people out there saying it is specifically healthy. Just like alcohol can be good for the body in moderation, there are some who take a drink and become alcolholics. Their genetic makeup makes them predisposed to this. Porn can be very similar.

Um - porn is not healthy, masturbation is. I can hardly see, but my palms feel hairy.