I consider myself a victim of porn addiction. My libido has been absolutely destroyed by it. I can’t get aroused from the thought of having a relationship and being sexually active because it’s not extreme/taboo enough. Porn addicts start with relatively normal porn but then eventually that doesn’t stimulate them like it used to so they move on to more extreme BDSM and other things. I know from experience.

BDSM disgusts me. I would never want to treat someone I love and share my life with that way. Yet it’s impossible for me to get aroused without some violent aspect to it. This is what porn did to me. A total disconnect between my emotions and my sex drive.

I know most people advocating for banning porn are on the religious right. I’m not, I’m a leftist. There’s nothing religious about my opinion in this. Overstimulation of the dopamine centers of the brain is incredibly damaging. It takes the pleasure out of normal happy things. It ruins your sex drive.

So many young kids are getting addicted to porn when their brain is still developing. This is so bad. You feel like your brain is shattered to pieces that don’t connect with each other. It must stop. Every year we don’t ban porn is another cohort of people whose brains we failed to protect from something as monstrous as drug addiction. Those in the porn industry get filthy rich off exploiting consumers of porn and actors/actresses in it. It’s mass exploitation and it must stop.