
In a recent article published in New York magazine, the writer Davy Rothbart says that men’s obsession for porn movies is seriously affecting their libido, having consequences over their real life sex. He storied his own experience from when he used to watch porn movies too often and started to fake orgasms with his girlfriend, since climax during intercourse was nearly impossible. He also gave as examples other men’s stories that passed through similar experiences.
Davy Rothbart said using a very explicit figure of style that porn movies are not only affecting men psychologically, but they will also affect the perception of a normal sexual act. He explained this using a comparison between an Imax 3-D movie and a flipbook, saying that it is hard to pass from “porn’s fireworks and whiz-bangs” to the normal and traditional intercourse.
With these affirmations, Rothbart is contradicting the scientists. Even if it is a known fact that men have a skewed view of sex, he is saying that porn can cause a detachment from the real sexual partner, “in more profound ways”. The writer argues this statement by adding a Skinnerian theory: watching porn movies is causing men to release a dopamine-oxytocin combo, just like the sexual act does. This is how men can develop neurological attachment of watching porn, because they want to feel again the emotions given by the release of dopamine and oxytocin in their body. Porn tube movies.
Yet, specialists are contradicting Davy Rothbart, saying that this affirmations are fake, since there are no scientific results that can confirm his speculations. Indeed, oxytocin affects the pleasure systems of the brain and it makes men associate their partners with the idea of getting pleasure, but it was never discovered which of the brain’s regions can give such an addiction.
Even if Davy Rothbart does not have scientific arguments for his statement, he can still be right and watching porn movies can really affect the men’s libido. But, the real problem here is not that porn affects real life’s sex. The real problem is that porn movies are satisfying the men’s lust for what they can’t get from sexual act. The explosion of free porn movies on the market is daily satisfying millions and millions hidden desires of men all over the world, desires that can’t be, generally, satisfied by their girlfriends.






