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Jul 5, 2019 9:22 AM
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There are some studies and articles that suggest that watching porn can be harmful.
Which makes me wonder if watching hentai is just as harmful.
What are your thoughts?
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Jul 5, 2019 9:23 AM
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There's nothing harmful about watching hentai or porn.

Articles/studies against porn are complete BS.

Jul 5, 2019 9:42 AM
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A wank a day keeps the doctor away!

There is the theory that too much porn will harm your real world sex drive, but addiction to anything will harm you regardless. Porn has been shown to help revitalize stagnant long-term intimate relationships, not like I am speaking from experience.....

Hentai is less harmful than conventional porn for the actors involved because there is no possibility of drug addiction, permanent damage to the body or extortion.
BUT, Hentai will harm your sex drive in that you won't be attracted to 3D women ever again though, so in that sense it is more harmful than 3D Porn. Anime girls do it better. I haven't watched conventional porn in months... Thanks Makai Kishi Ingrid!
Jul 5, 2019 9:48 AM
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I think there is only a problem with it when it turns into an addiction, but that can be said about everything.
Jul 5, 2019 9:51 AM
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If your life more or less revolves around it? Yes.
If you just crank out a good wank every night or so while watching some Chinese 2D tiddies? Nah you're good, just learn to discern the difference between cartoons and real life.
Jul 5, 2019 5:34 PM
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its fine occasionally. if you're addicted to it though, thats a problem.

i'd also say its pretty harmful to adolescents (14 and under) because lots of porn desensitizes people to actual human relationships, and often normalizes things that wouldn't be ok in real relationships (sexual harassment, weird ass dialogue and scenarios, sometimes even rape) and adolescents might not grasp that the things that they're seeing in porn aren't normal or just shouldn't happen at all.

but if you already know all that shit, then go for it.
Jul 5, 2019 5:39 PM
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Just like pretty much everything in life, if in moderation, There is no harm.
Though if it's getting in the way of your responsibilities or on an ongoing basis then yes it's harmful.



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Jul 5, 2019 5:42 PM
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Xstasy said:
There are some studies and articles that suggest that watching porn can be harmful.
Which makes me wonder if watching hentai is just as harmful.
What are your thoughts?
What studies and harmful in what way?

I'm always sceptical of vague words like "harmful" without a qualification of what exactly "harmful" entails because it's a very subjective word: one man's harm is another man's pleasure.


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Jul 5, 2019 6:34 PM
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depends... what level of extremism of the hentai spectrum is one on?
fapping to real fucked shit is probably a big no no starter, fap to vanilla and relatively okay shit, and you're okay, i suppose. and i'm talking... real fucked, not even biologically possible shit.
Jul 5, 2019 6:40 PM

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Jul 5, 2019 6:44 PM

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No. It's good for you because it reliefs stress!
Jul 5, 2019 7:27 PM

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Watching anything can be harmful. For example, watching the sun can be harmful...same with Ed Sheeran.



Jul 5, 2019 8:22 PM

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Xstasy said:
There are some studies and articles that suggest that watching porn can be harmful.
Which makes me wonder if watching hentai is just as harmful.
What are your thoughts?


Are you trying to differentiate between hentai and porn? Why? They seem to meet at the same end goal. And the end goal is harmful.

What I'm saying is, as long as you're just edging it's fine
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Jul 5, 2019 8:46 PM
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As stated above, too much of anything can be harmful. That is, if it becomes an addiction that becomes a dependency.
Jul 5, 2019 9:18 PM

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yeah, you're harming your eyes with atrocious art

Jul 5, 2019 10:12 PM

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Seiya said:
Articles/studies against porn are complete BS.


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I'm always sceptical of vague words like "harmful" without a qualification of what exactly "harmful" entails because it's a very subjective word: one man's harm is another man's pleasure.



http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170926-is-porn-harmful-the-evidence-the-myths-and-the-unknowns
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/scary-effects-pornography-21st-centurys-accute-addiction-rewiring/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NWfys7q4x4
(of course, you can't particularly trust ted bundy, but, as this was the day before his death, he didn't really have anything to gain from his words)
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is this a male gender issure...human issue...mental illness perhaps?
Jul 5, 2019 10:22 PM

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Only if you watch it so much that it became an addiction, or if a kid watches it. Other than that, its fine. Just don't get too excessive.
Jul 5, 2019 10:28 PM

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I would say it's not harmful, quite the opposite. It helps you take off some things in your mind and plus it's always healthy to blow a load and Healthline claims “Ejaculating at least 21 times a month significantly reduces a man’s risk of prostate cancer.” So there you go, happy fapping
Jul 5, 2019 10:48 PM

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hverfa said:
yeah, you're harming your eyes with atrocious art


>:( yeah! its all censored. We must fight for higher standards of porn. i have a dream that one day all japanese porn will be uncensored
Jul 5, 2019 10:52 PM

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I dont think anything sexual is bad for you as long as it does not become an obsession. Humans like to have sex. Its a form of entertainment for your sense of touch. So porn or hentai are just 2D versions of the same thing. Kind of like watching a sports video of a sport that you play for fun.
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Jul 5, 2019 11:04 PM
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Each time you get a boner you actually get very small lacerations internally along the base of your penis which leads to permanent erectile dysfunction.
Jul 5, 2019 11:24 PM

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Well, I mainly watch hentai to see how hilariously bad the English dub is, so I don't really have a horse in this race.

Jul 5, 2019 11:38 PM
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Not really, the majority of "studies" are done by people who want to sell you their program/product to cure your non-existent erectile dysfunction or other problem that happened exactly because you were watching porn and not some other reason (I've seen anything from baldness to loss of concentration to vision problems) OR by some religious "non-profit" organisations because it helps them brainwashing the population and pushing their crappy belief system.

In conclusion basically anything can be harmful including drinking water if you drink too much of it. Watching porn in "healthy" doses isn't harmful in my opinion and I've never seen a legitimate source that states otherwise. Even watching significantly more than the average person is probably fine unless of course you go to the extremes and start fapping like 20 times a day or something insane like that.

@traed damn it, you already used that as an example, absolutely ruined the opening sentence of my second paragraph.
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Harmful in what sense? I mean, if you have physical copies you shouldn't eat 'em. The DVDs and BDs aren't good for you. Mentally? The medical POV is that porn does not hurt people's minds at all. So consuming anime and manga pornography is alright
Jul 6, 2019 7:47 PM

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No it's feminist bs propaganda, they just want to control men
You don't see them criticize women over it.
Jul 6, 2019 10:24 PM

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Yes, it definitely is. Any kind of pornography is harmful to your mind and your soul. And this has nothing to do with feminism or other stupid ideology. Actually, one of the biggest hypocrisies of feminists is that they don't criticize pornography enough, even though it really does objectify the women, as well as the men, who are shown in those kinds of videos.
Pornography is the main reason why young people are having so many problems with gender identity nowadays.
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KRKodama said:

Pornography is the main reason why young people are having so many problems with gender identity nowadays.


really? I've watched a lot of porn/hentai and I'm damn sure that I identify as a male
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Watching hentai/porn is harmful if you watch it everyday, multiple times a day, and fap everytime you watch it, your balls will shrunk, lol.
That reminds me, I haven't watch porn in almost 2 weeks, oh man, no wonder I was so stressed lately.
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Yes All Pornography is harmful hentai is no exeption.
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No.

There may be certain ways of watching, states of mind, or types of personality which make it harmful in the occasional case, (which is true of almost every activity,) but certainly not in the general case.
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It's only harmful if you get addicted and watch it to the point where you start missing out on daily activities that you're supposed to do
Help the industry and buy Blu-rays and DVD's.
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Jul 8, 2019 6:10 AM
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porn addiction like any addiction can be harmful like make you socially dysfunctional and obviously hentai is porn
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not really but it’s still degeneracy
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yes it is really harmful since you can spend most of the time beating your meat which may damage your dick.
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Jul 8, 2019 4:14 PM
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You forgot one important part about it. I read some studies that it might be harmful for KIDS to watch porn, since they aren't emotionally mature enough to cope with the pictures they see.
Some will start to think that every type of fetish and sexual practice is part of everyday sexuality and feel forced to do everything they see. They also might get wrong expectations of their and their partner's bodies and looks and size of breasts and genitals.
There might be articles about adults, but I don't know about them.

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I consider that any kind of addiction is harmful

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Jul 9, 2019 6:53 PM

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not unless you feel its become an addiction or is disrupting your life.
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imagine being so pathetic that you get addicted to porn

i mean there's pathetic and then there's me but then apparently there's ppl that are addicted to porn wtf lol

most of the hentai i've seen is really bad too

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It's haram according to the religion of peace.
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yes. a hentai/porn addiction is definitely harmful
especially if/when it leads to a Masterbation addiction

at this point ur basically addicted to drugs.. cuz the shit that happens in ur brain while ur in the process of rubbing one out staring at the screen being ''aroused'',
is basically the same
now if we count the person in question being unhealthy. that's 2x harmful

people take masterbation/porn addictions to lightly these days and many cases go unnoticed


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KRKodama said:

Pornography is the main reason why young people are having so many problems with gender identity nowadays.


really? I've watched a lot of porn/hentai and I'm damn sure that I identify as a male
he means the people that stumble upon gay stuff as a kid and... well yeah works other way around for both male/female, believe it or not it has happened
though i don't think its the 'main' reason
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Seiya said:
Articles/studies against porn are complete BS.


Sphinxter said:
I'm always sceptical of vague words like "harmful" without a qualification of what exactly "harmful" entails because it's a very subjective word: one man's harm is another man's pleasure.



http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170926-is-porn-harmful-the-evidence-the-myths-and-the-unknowns
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/scary-effects-pornography-21st-centurys-accute-addiction-rewiring/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NWfys7q4x4
(of course, you can't particularly trust ted bundy, but, as this was the day before his death, he didn't really have anything to gain from his words)


Ted Bundy was a compulsive liar, he didn't even admit to his crimes until a few weeks before his death. the man was an absolute master manipulator, please please do not take his word for anything.
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That depends on what you’re watching.
I mean Hatsu Inu or Oni Chichi can’t be good for you, for example.
Shoujo Ramune is neutral.
Nightshift Nurses or Natsumushi will actually be healthy.

Trust me, I’m a doctor (not even kidding).


Can confirm, watched Night Shift Nurses and immediately all my health problems were cured. Truly a miracle.
Jul 11, 2019 12:47 PM

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Yeah, watching hentai is harmful. It's keeping you from reading top notch doujins or browsing gelbooru.
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yes it is really harmful since you can spend most of the time beating your meat which may damage your dick.
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well Im not gonna repeat wht other have said but its the only way to realize ur 2D>>>3d dreams
Jul 11, 2019 5:20 PM
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Especially the incest kind. Incel for incest.
Jul 11, 2019 6:44 PM

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As long as you know that hentai is far from reality, you're good.

Anime girls are drawn to be perfect in every way possible (perfect bodies, perfect hair, eyes, personalities, etc..), but real girls are far from that. It's easy to fall into the trap of expecting real girls to be as good as anime girls. As ridiculous as it sounds, it happens.

All that exposure to perfect 2D women can eventually be harmful in the long run yes. It might alter someone's vision of the real world.

Thank god most people keep both their feet on the ground.
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nahh bro. whatever makes ya happy. far less drama then "real" girls anyway 👌
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Yes watching porn can be harmful and can lead to addiction and unrealistic expectations from your partner.


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Just don't fap too much and you'll be fine
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