Ask Men on Sidechat | Should I have sympathy for men addicted to porn? I think maybe I should but I really fucking don’t. It’s like feeling sorry for somebody who uses zyns. Yes, addiction is a disease, but no shit that’s bad for you, cringe, and in some cases morally wrong.

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Should I have sympathy for men addicted to porn? I think maybe I should but I really fucking don’t. It’s like feeling sorry for somebody who uses zyns. Yes, addiction is a disease, but no shit that’s bad for you, cringe, and in some cases morally wrong.

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Anonymous 19w

As a man addicted to porn, I don’t think we are owed sympathy. That being said, I do believe we deserve compassion, but if we are ruining our lives over it, don’t treat any differently than a situation with a drug addict.

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Anonymous 19w

No one said you should. But I will say that porn is kinda forced into your face online and young men (and unfortunately impressionable boys) who are biologically wired to enjoy this stuff get hooked to it easily. I would say just keep that in mind when you think about how porn addicts are gross losers. If you don’t wanna date a guy for it, I wouldn’t blame you at all. - a porn addict

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Anonymous 19w

Feel free to weigh in on this one way or another, I’m not super set on this opinion. Also, this is coming from a woman btw.

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#1 19w

This is a valid opinion, I’ve been on the Internet for probably a decade and I have quite literally never seen porn, never been on porn hub, etc. but it’s probably different for young boys in terms of what they’re exposed to. I will say there’s a difference (in maturity, moral responsibility, and capacity for good decision making) between impressionable children and adults who should know better.

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OP 19w

It depends where you are online, and I think if social media algorithms knows you’re a boy and maybe you stopped scrolling on a model’s page for a split second longer than usual, it will feed that material to you. Especially true on Twitter or Reddit or Instagram. This might lead these boys to seek out these sites and get more into the rabbit hole. And I would like to point out that most of these addictions start very young. Mine might have been as young as 12 or so

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Anonymous 19w

Thanks for weighing in. Personally, whenever I saw sex in movies or even anything tangentially related to sex as a child and even into age 14/15 it would make me physically uncomfortable, guilty, and even sick feeling (which I now understand is also not a healthy relationship to have to sex and desire) I can absolutely understand having sympathy for and supporting people who are trying to change, but I agree you can’t help somebody who doesn’t realize that what they’re doing is harmful.

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