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by CannedHam on October 28th, 2007
Nope, otherwise there would be no civilization as we know it. If your mom was correct, all the men would have be insane starting at age 13 or so.
by Anonymous on October 28th, 2007
i'm in the porn business and don't think i'm sick.
by Sheriff Raff -Answerhag on October 28th, 2007
Maybe your mom watched a lot of porn, got turned on and got sick? You should ask her to tell you her experience in great detail. I am sure it would turn me on.
by Ender is back.. And slightly confused. on October 28th, 2007
Watching porn by yourself is not sick. It's when you would rather watch porn than do other things that it becomes a problem.
by GuitarPlayer92 on October 28th, 2007
Of course it's not sick. It's a normal human reaction to erotic material. It's alot safer than going out and being promiscuous and catching a slew of diseases isn't it?
by The Account Formerly Known As Peyton on October 28th, 2007
You mean like getting turned on thinking about yourself sexually? Or getting turned on without anyone else in the room?
Either way, it's not sick.
by Anonymous on October 28th, 2007
Why not just watch it with your Mom?
by P. W. Pasobrio loves Marines on October 28th, 2007
You're mom's partly right. Becoming aroused visually is not sick. It's very normal especially for males. It's how their wired. However, pornography is not a healthy way to enterain yourself sexually weather you're alone or not. Watching pornography causes prolems with the brain and how it preceives sex. What happens is it creats a short in how your mind, the most important sex organ, reacts to sex.
Sex is complex and involves three centers of the brain the emmotional, mental, and pyshical repectors. With porn only two of these are stimulated the mental and the pyshical. Over time the brain will cut out the emmotional aspects of sex because it's been taught it to. This cause a psychois. It will cause a desensatized to normal women and sexual activity. Men who veiw porn have a lower rating of sexual satisfaction with their partners. Over time they will lose interest in sex all together. When this happens they need more graphic and taboo porn to get off. It's also been linked to men being more likely to cheat and use prostitues to get a high from sex.
It will effects men's relationships with others. Men who start using porn before or during puberty will have their sexual growth stunted. That means if men start looking at porn at 13 when the sex receptors, especially the emmotional, ones aren't mature yet they will always be 13 sexually. Men who veiw porn as teens or as adults lose the ability to emapthize with their partners sexually as well. To them they see women as nothing more then sex objects there to please them. The fantasy of porn reinforces that beleif. They also don't learn how to communitcate especially about sex with their partners. Nor do they learn how to take rejection in stride.
When it comes to it's effect on males mental and phsysical health there are also connections to other problems. Men who view porn are more likely to suffer from depression, have shorter life spans, and are more likely to have drug and alcholo problems. They are also more likely to be abusive in some way to their partners or children. This could mean anything from a lack of emmotional connection to full out abuse.
So you see, sometimes mom does kind of know what she talking about.
by Bartman on October 28th, 2007
If it was, I would be the sickest.
by DreamGirl on October 28th, 2007
No it's not sick...
by Indigo- in the library with the revolver on October 28th, 2007
No, that's normal.
by Janie on October 28th, 2007
No its not unhealthy. it is a safe and easy way to 'find' yourself sexually. i wouldnt worry about it, it's totally natural to be turned on by porn.
by Doggie S on October 28th, 2007
No. Porn is made with the intent to turn people on, with or without any companion.
by Heather on October 28th, 2007
It's definitely not healthy. Especially if you are doing it in your mothers house. Try going out and meeting new people and then you won't have so much time alone
by Anonymous on October 28th, 2007
A lot of people are uncomfortable about pornography ... some think watching it in itself is sexual deviance. Others are concerned that the women (usually) participating in it are exploited, or that the way women are objectified, or sometimes treated violently, is concerning.
Watching porn is not unusual. Most people agree that watching it alone is not a sign of any kind of illness, and that getting turned on by it is not any sign of illness.
It isn't unusual for women to like porn. But society isn't very accepting of women liking porn, and can be pretty judgemental of women for it, so not many will admit publicly that they watch it or turned on by it. It took television ratings for some of this to become apparent - Playboy TV executives were puzzled that their pornography had ratings spikes during the daytime on weekdays... until they discovered that the spike resulted from viewers who were housewives.
Be concerned if watching it becomes addictive - if you can't stop, or if it interferes with your normal life. Addiction in anything can become a sort of illness.
Ask yourself about exploitation/objectification concerns in the kind of porn you like to watch. Realize that it makes some people uncomfortable. Respect their decisions about their own habits. And don't let their judgements of your behaviour as 'sick' to change your opinion of yourself.
by bigkado69 on October 28th, 2007
i love porn but i dont watch it by myself.No it is not sick.LETS GO WATCH SOME PORN!!.lol
by Yahoo Answers Is A Fraud on October 28th, 2007
No it's not, esp. enjoying interracial porn.
by bambers on November 2nd, 2007
Porn is great in moderation. If it gets out of control and it becomes something needed every day then there might be an issue.
by mother earth on October 28th, 2007
God, I hope not. But if it is all you watch and you watch it all the time, it may be time to get another hobby.
by - MojoThunder - on September 15th, 2009
i just LOVE it when parents pass down their hang-ups and insecurities to their children ... just so wonderfully healthy
by Anonymous on November 10th, 2009
I grew up watching porn and I let myself masturbate freely, getting caught several times. Eventually Mom just stopped interupting and started watching. We have gone much farther than that and now that I am over 35, I am my Mom's s/o and we are very intimate in evry way and we are otherwise normal people.
by Hellifino on September 21st, 2009
Absolutely not. What's sick is that your mom making you feel dirty about something that comes natural.
by Anonymous on September 21st, 2009
YES. Especially seeing what goes on behind the scenes of it. Behind the porn industry there is much drugs, rape, violence, and abuse.
by Tracy_D3345 on December 12th, 2010
Your mom is a very insecure person and probably should consider seeing a professional about her problems.
My boyfriend watches porn,sends and receives pics and video but I've totally lost any sexual attraction to him because of it. What to do?
by Tmarie27 on November 12th, 2011
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Do you and your s/o watch porn together and how has that impacted your relationship?
by Don Quiote on October 31st, 2011
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A Catholic Church owned publisher is reportedly selling Porn Novels. Does this surprise you?
by calicorey on November 6th, 2011
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have U try having sex while watching porn??
by melahel on December 4th, 2011
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girls do you let boys touch your boobs at school in the bathroom while no one is looking
by seda133 on October 26th, 2011
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very true
by Blink on October 28th, 2007
NYB, are you and mom on better terms today? Have you stopped wishing evil on her?
by Sheriff Raff -Answerhag on October 28th, 2007
yeah its all good now it was just a burst of bad emotions
by Blink on October 29th, 2007