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Originally Posted by ElsaMars
The porn addiction really warps and deregulates your ability to be turned on. Before saying anything more, I'm wondering if you think it would be realistic for you to be turned on by another "real life" woman? Porn addiction can actually cause impotence in sexual situations which don't involve porn.
Don't feel bad....you have a legitimate medical condition and it confuses things. (((Hugs)))
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very reductive and absolutely untrue without taking in the person individually. Some people may be very affected by porn and it may do the things stated but others may not be affected the same.
the idea that people so easily become unable to be turned on by real women or something less than the "ideal" porn female is ridiculous. I am sure that there are cases of this but I don't think this is true entirely as a standard outcome.
Being someone that doesn't have a problem with porn myself, I can tell you without any hesitation that if I'm attracted to a female the fact that I have looked at the stuff does not affect my being turned on by her and also my standards are not even close to being perfectionistic about what women should look like, bodies included. I have never been not attracted to my partner at any time because she was less than what some porn females looked like.
This is not to say that being addicted to porn will not affect relationships or say that there is nothing here to consider. I'm only disputing the idea that many women believe men that look at porn are unable to be attracted to real women or something. It's a common misconception that I believe isn't true much of the time.