CAN PORN ADDICTION DESTROY A RELATIONSHIP?

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Welcome once again to another edition of our biweekly relationship special — the Sunday Love Special, or SLS if you may.

Today, our topic for discussion would focus on pornography, its addiction and if it can affect a relationship.

Drama and Shawn would share their opinion on this highly debatable but important topic.

Drama 

Can porn addiction destroy a relationship? I think it can. Addiction to anything isn’t quite good, is it? It is fine to watch porn, but don’t let it turn to an addiction. Becoming addicted to pornography is the same thing as allowing it have control over you, and I think that can have a bad effect on one’s life — and on their relationship eventually.

There is a school of thought that suggests that when you watch porn excessively, in the long run, it might become difficult for you to be turned on by any other person, other than the characters in the porn materials you watch, and that is because you have become fixated on them— and your body has been taught to sexually react only to porn content. Or to put it in simpler terms, you lose interest in getting sexual satisfaction from real people because you have become used to getting it from pornographic content. That notion makes sense to me, because addiction is a very psychological thing. It’s like training yourself (not deliberately) to live by something, so without that thing, it becomes hard for you to function properly. This of course, can ruin any relationship. Imagine being with someone who doesn’t seem sexually attracted to you, but somehow finds someone they’ve not even met ‘sexy’. It can be frustrating and no matter how much you care about the person, I think that in the long run, you may eventually grow tired, if things don’t take a more positive turn. I mean, let’s face it really, what’s the point in dating someone who doesn’t want to sleep with you, but would rather jerk- off?

 

Shawn

Every addiction is terrible and most likely to cause harm, and porn addiction just about tops the list in my opinion.

Porn addiction may seem harmless, but it certainly would cause more harm than good to your relationship. First and foremost, the sexual content of a pornographic movie is quite unreal, from the pleasures derived down to the orgasm. Pornography tries to sell a perfect sex, a perfect body and the perfect orgasm to its viewers and that is the first problem in the first place. This can put one under undue pressure to be sexually perfect, and that pressure is the foundation for a terrible sex life with your partner.

Secondly, as in the case of the movie Don Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt starring as Jon Martello Jr. became so addicted to pornography that he didn’t even enjoy real sex anymore — porn was the main thing for him and sex was just a substitute. This again is terrible for your relationship with your partner. When you become less interested in your partner and more interested in porn, the relationship’s sex life would definitely suffer and this can affect every other aspects of the relationship.

Finally, porn addiction can stimulate you to provocative sexual behaviour ranging from rape to molestation. Addiction to porn can make you so sexually excited and if care isn’t taken, you can engage in provocative behaviours. Also, porn addiction can cause you to cheat on your partner. After watching a pornographic movie and your partner is far away to ease your urge, what comes next? You definitely could be prompted to cheat.

For these reasons, I believe porn addiction is a terrible addiction for your relationship.

 

That’s our take on this edition of El Crema Sunday Love Special. What do you think of porn addiction and its implications? Till a fortnight from now, it’s au revoir.

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