This is another example of why the “porn = evil + addictive” brainworms are so dangerous. I’ve seen this same ideology dressed up in the language of anti-capitalism sometimes and it is extremely dangerous.

Comment I made a couple days ago:

Dudes blaming porn are just horny, feeling guilty, and then pathologizing themselves and their own libidos.

Porn addiction is as real as addiction to any other media or behavior. You could in theory wind up with a compulsion or something, but it’s not really an addiction.

What does happen to a lot of chuds is that they’re taught their libido and emotions are demonic. Then every time they’re horny, they feel like they’ve morally failed. In many cases, they feel they’ve failed against a literal demon that is now able to “possess” them.

They then associate guilt, self-loathing, and failure with getting off and the natural cycles of their own libido. Tie that in with misogyny and blaming women / queer people for their own “failures” and yeah :yikes:

Basically it’s a self fulfilling recipe for winding up as a fuckwad. That (guilt => orgasm reward => guilt) loop is what gets to religious people like this and turns them into virulent misogynists / queerphobes / etc.

The guilt loop is useful for controlling people and teaching them to invest in patriarchal systems, so conservatives naturally encourage it. There is a huge and very profitable industry built around “curing sex and porn addiction”.

These brainworms are entirely something people can work through too, but many won’t when they think it’s how god wants them to be.

If you genuinely believe that re-enforcing behavioral patterns of emotional self harm every time your libido spikes is actually you triumphing over demons in an act of literal spiritual warfare then… yeah.

:desolate: