Yes, someone actually made this comment to me. I thought about it for a minute and I said no. I said, “You may think that because you are human and you have a highly developed brain that you are above watching pleasures of the flesh, but you are still an animal.”

The person said, “Pornography is for people who just don’t ever use their brains. Its for people who have no real path in life and are not civilized. ”

You still have an instinctual pull to breed, to survive. You may take a moral stance against it, but that has nothing to do with it.

The thing is, you can’t switch off your instinct, your desire (unless you have a chemical imbalance). Even if someone takes the holier than thou approach, you sit them in front of a movie, they will get turned on. Its human nature.

I put it this way to them: I said, “Ok when you masturbate, what do you think about? A clean kitchen? A guy that leaves the toilet seat down? And don’t tell me that you don’t masturbate because I don’t like to call anyone a liar to their face if I don’t have to.”

The person said “Ok, I do have a fantasy that I think about.”

My point was made. Even if you are not watching someone have sex on the screen, which triggers the instinctual parts of your brain, you’re using your imagination to trigger the same areas. Your imagining some sexual fantasy, that might be similar to what you would watch on the screen, or it could be even more depraved (I know you sickos out there).

Watching pornography has nothing to do with if you are intelligent. It has nothing to do with the higher functions of the brain. You may make a conscientious choice to not watch it stating its morally wrong. But in truth you just feel guilty because you actually would enjoy it. You will have prurient thoughts.

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