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View Poll Results: What are your thoughts on pornography use?
I am male and I think porn is APPROPRIATE. 43 40.95%
I am a male and I think porn is INAPPROPRIATE. 12 11.43%
I am a male and have no opinion. 9 8.57%
I am a female and I think porn is APPROPRIATE. 18 17.14%
I am a female and I think porn is INAPPROPRIATE. 19 18.10%
I am a female and have no opinion. 4 3.81%
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Old 01-24-2012, 04:24 PM   #1 (permalink)
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There are a lot of different opinions on pornography and I wanted to see the differences between men and women from this forum. I personally think that porn can be very damaging to a marriage. What are your thoughts?
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I think there should be some verbage as to "in moderation", but maybe that's just assumed. I obviously don't think it's appropriate for my husband to sit naked in a bean bag chair 20 hours a day eating Cheetos and watching porn. However, if we watch an adult film together every once in a while, or even if he watches alone some night when I'm not home, I don't see it as a problem. If at some point he started neglecting me in favor of porn I'd find that to be a problem.
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I think there should be some verbage as to "in moderation", but maybe that's just assumed. I obviously don't think it's appropriate for my husband to sit naked in a bean bag chair 20 hours a day eating Cheetos and watching porn. However, if we watch an adult film together every once in a while, or even if he watches alone some night when I'm not home, I don't see it as a problem. If at some point he started neglecting me in favor of porn I'd find that to be a problem.
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Old 01-24-2012, 04:53 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Porn is fine. Neglecting your partner in favor of it is not. Done.
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I think there should be some verbage as to "in moderation", but maybe that's just assumed. I obviously don't think it's appropriate for my husband to sit naked in a bean bag chair 20 hours a day eating Cheetos and watching porn. However, if we watch an adult film together every once in a while, or even if he watches alone some night when I'm not home, I don't see it as a problem. If at some point he started neglecting me in favor of porn I'd find that to be a problem.
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I personally think that porn can be very damaging.
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I was OK with porn but after seeing what happened when my husbands porn use skyrocketed and our relationship took a back seat to it its not longer acceptable, not even once a month.
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guys are more visual, seeing is better than thinking, reading or talking about sex. If wives/girl friends would make videos of themselves during sex, and maybe keep them locked up or password protected on computer for their husbands viewing pleasure, or watching them together either prier or during sex, the need for additional porn, might not be necessary.
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guys are more visual, seeing is better than thinking, reading or talking about sex. If wives/girl friends would make videos of themselves during sex, and maybe keep them locked up or password protected on computer for their husbands viewing pleasure, or watching them together either prier or during sex, the need for additional porn, might not be necessary.
ive known of guys who had this and still insisted on porn too.
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guys are more visual, seeing is better than thinking, reading or talking about sex. If wives/girl friends would make videos of themselves during sex, and maybe keep them locked up or password protected on computer for their husbands viewing pleasure, or watching them together either prier or during sex, the need for additional porn, might not be necessary.
Oh I made videos and took pics that did nothing to stop my husband from viewing porn all the time instead of being with me.
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Oh I made videos and took pics that did nothing to stop my husband from viewing porn all the time instead of being with me.
they seem to NEVER be satisfied.
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Only when my wife is watching too!
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I think that involvement with pornography can take away from the emotional bond that couples can have when they are making love.
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I do think it's inappropriate. Mainly because I do not have that perfect body. I'm smaller chested and it took me a long time to fully accept it. Luckily, my husband is not into it. He told the truth, I've looked through his history and never seen anything. He never deletes anything either.
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I think that involvement with pornography can take away from the emotional bond that couples can have when they are making love.


During my husbands porn use the sex was emotionless. Most times I'd wish he would just hurry up and be done it made me feel like a last cheap resort when he wanted his break from porn but he had to use porn to get hard to have sex. It just wasn't worth the emotional turmoil to keep having sex like that.
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