Porn Addiction and Masturbation.How Can You Tell If You Have A Problem?
- 8 yıl önce
Do you have a problem with porn addiction if you use porn to masturbate? Cathy Vartuli from and Reid Mihalko from share.
Cathy: Is it an addiction if you always want to watch porn when you masturbate?
Im Cathy Vartuli from and this is Reid Mihalko from
Reid: How did you know? How did you know?
Cathy: We had someone write in and said that they really enjoyed the.
Reid: Are you spying on me? Or can you just tell?
Cathy: I can just tell.
Reid: Ahh.
Cathy: Someone wrote in and said they really enjoyed the videos we did on masturbation but he was concerned because he really feels compelled to watch porn when he masturbates. Hes wondering if its an addiction and if its a problem.
Reid: An addiction to masturbation?
Cathy: To the porn part. He doesnt like to masturbate without porn.
Reid: What does it say? Representation is not causation?
Cathy: Right.
Reid: Right. So just because youre always watching porn when you masturbate doesn’t mean that its an addiction.
Cathy: Right, but he said that he doesnt, he feels .
Reid: Am I addicted to forks if Im always using a fork when Im eating food? Am I addicted?
Cathy: You are addicted to forks.
Reid: Oh my goodness. Silverware?
Cathy: Yeah.
Reid: Oh my God. Were all addicted to silverware! Holy moly! Or chopsticks, or other things if youre from other cultures.
Cathy: So hes finding it hard not to use porn when he masturbates. I mean, porn is very hot and it can make masturbating really exciting and it can feel less lonely, but sometimes I like to masturbate just by myself because I can connect with my body and my own feelings.
Reid: So how would you answer this question. Im sorry. If youre actually watching this, Im not making fun of you. Im having fun with the question because I have some ideas on how culture has us worried about stuff. Just like silverware. We dont think about it do we? How would you answer the question and Ill answer.
Cathy: I think its important. For myself, I had certain habits when I masturbated that prevented me from connecting with myself. I found it very hard to orgasm without those habits.
Reid: Do you want to share what habit?
Cathy: I would have fantasies. I would be lost in the fantasy.
Reid: Okay, so youd have a fantasy.
Cathy: Yeah. Or Id use certain toys and I wanted to see if I could connect with my body and my own sexuality in a different way.
Reid: Okay.
Cathy: At first it didnt make me orgasm to do that, but I learned to explore my body and understand it better. Over time that became hot for me too.
Reid: Is the point of masturbation to orgasm?
Cathy: Sometimes, sometimes not. Depends on what your intention is.
Reid: Ahh.
Cathy: It can just be relaxing, but I personally like to orgasm.
Reid: Okay. Everyones different.
Cathy: Yes.
Reid: Right? And, for those of you who only masturbate to orgasm, I would invite you to experiment with masturbating for a couple of days, not straight, take breaks, and masturbating without orgasming and just seeing how that is because I know that I went through a Oh my goodness. Dudes, we can masturbate not to orgasm?
It seemed like the point of masturbation was to have the orgasm.
Cathy: It can actually be really fun when youre with a partner that knows how to have a really good time without orgasming immediately because then you can play longer.
Reid: There are lots of different things that you should try to explore and create more variety to explore variety. And you get to have your preferences. This is my answer to this. Right? If you can only masturbate by watching porn, maybe theres a porn addition.
But lets really talk about what addiction means. True, classic addiction is if you stop the activity, or the substance, you go through withdrawals and, in extreme cases, you die. Most people do not die from not masturbating.
A masturbation addiction. Are you going to die from not watching porn anymore? I dont think theres anybody whos died from giving up porn. So is it a true addiction? Right? Theres what the media calls addiction then theres what medical people call addiction.
Then theres whats erotic in your brain that gets you off, and sometimes what gets us hot and bothered and excited is visual stimulation, stimulating my brain. Im watching the porn just like you are watching this video, and I am being stimulated visually.
Thats your brain. Youre getting off by something erotic in your brain versus the sensual stimulation.
Cathy: You could keep doing that if you want.
Reid: Thats occurring through your body. In this question Im like Okay, so you like watching porn because it gets you hotter and you just happen to maybe cons
Cathy: Is it an addiction if you always want to watch porn when you masturbate?
Im Cathy Vartuli from and this is Reid Mihalko from
Reid: How did you know? How did you know?
Cathy: We had someone write in and said that they really enjoyed the.
Reid: Are you spying on me? Or can you just tell?
Cathy: I can just tell.
Reid: Ahh.
Cathy: Someone wrote in and said they really enjoyed the videos we did on masturbation but he was concerned because he really feels compelled to watch porn when he masturbates. Hes wondering if its an addiction and if its a problem.
Reid: An addiction to masturbation?
Cathy: To the porn part. He doesnt like to masturbate without porn.
Reid: What does it say? Representation is not causation?
Cathy: Right.
Reid: Right. So just because youre always watching porn when you masturbate doesn’t mean that its an addiction.
Cathy: Right, but he said that he doesnt, he feels .
Reid: Am I addicted to forks if Im always using a fork when Im eating food? Am I addicted?
Cathy: You are addicted to forks.
Reid: Oh my goodness. Silverware?
Cathy: Yeah.
Reid: Oh my God. Were all addicted to silverware! Holy moly! Or chopsticks, or other things if youre from other cultures.
Cathy: So hes finding it hard not to use porn when he masturbates. I mean, porn is very hot and it can make masturbating really exciting and it can feel less lonely, but sometimes I like to masturbate just by myself because I can connect with my body and my own feelings.
Reid: So how would you answer this question. Im sorry. If youre actually watching this, Im not making fun of you. Im having fun with the question because I have some ideas on how culture has us worried about stuff. Just like silverware. We dont think about it do we? How would you answer the question and Ill answer.
Cathy: I think its important. For myself, I had certain habits when I masturbated that prevented me from connecting with myself. I found it very hard to orgasm without those habits.
Reid: Do you want to share what habit?
Cathy: I would have fantasies. I would be lost in the fantasy.
Reid: Okay, so youd have a fantasy.
Cathy: Yeah. Or Id use certain toys and I wanted to see if I could connect with my body and my own sexuality in a different way.
Reid: Okay.
Cathy: At first it didnt make me orgasm to do that, but I learned to explore my body and understand it better. Over time that became hot for me too.
Reid: Is the point of masturbation to orgasm?
Cathy: Sometimes, sometimes not. Depends on what your intention is.
Reid: Ahh.
Cathy: It can just be relaxing, but I personally like to orgasm.
Reid: Okay. Everyones different.
Cathy: Yes.
Reid: Right? And, for those of you who only masturbate to orgasm, I would invite you to experiment with masturbating for a couple of days, not straight, take breaks, and masturbating without orgasming and just seeing how that is because I know that I went through a Oh my goodness. Dudes, we can masturbate not to orgasm?
It seemed like the point of masturbation was to have the orgasm.
Cathy: It can actually be really fun when youre with a partner that knows how to have a really good time without orgasming immediately because then you can play longer.
Reid: There are lots of different things that you should try to explore and create more variety to explore variety. And you get to have your preferences. This is my answer to this. Right? If you can only masturbate by watching porn, maybe theres a porn addition.
But lets really talk about what addiction means. True, classic addiction is if you stop the activity, or the substance, you go through withdrawals and, in extreme cases, you die. Most people do not die from not masturbating.
A masturbation addiction. Are you going to die from not watching porn anymore? I dont think theres anybody whos died from giving up porn. So is it a true addiction? Right? Theres what the media calls addiction then theres what medical people call addiction.
Then theres whats erotic in your brain that gets you off, and sometimes what gets us hot and bothered and excited is visual stimulation, stimulating my brain. Im watching the porn just like you are watching this video, and I am being stimulated visually.
Thats your brain. Youre getting off by something erotic in your brain versus the sensual stimulation.
Cathy: You could keep doing that if you want.
Reid: Thats occurring through your body. In this question Im like Okay, so you like watching porn because it gets you hotter and you just happen to maybe cons