Sorry, I was being sarcastic. Left off the /s.

Gotta love the internet, right?

I'm trying to wean myself off. I'm down to one cup of coffee every morning down from two cups every morning and usually one in the afternoon/early evening (since I work the evening shift). Almost a week in and I'm still feeling like total dogshit. My job is pretty laid back though, so I can manage. I think I'm sleeping better.

There's opensecrets. I'm thinking of another one, but I can't remember the name of it.

Wolfi suggests that there's ways to "share erotic pleasure" with children that don't harm or violate them. This is bullshit. How many adults who were sexually abused as children do you know speak positively about their experiences and weren't traumatized by them?

Yes, institutions including schools, churches, the nuclear family, etc. repress children, and sexual repression (specifically the repression of age-appropriate sexual behavior, i.e. masturbation) is certainly a part of that repression, but that in no way necessitates or justifies adults sexually abusing children.

Children don't need to be sexually abused by adults to avoid becoming sexually repressed. Most children learn to masturbate by themselves; all they need is to not be shamed for doing so and to be given privacy.

As far as Wolfi's and other individualists/post-leftists/egoists' larger project of rejecting morality: unlike others, I don't think defending child sexual abuse (or rape, murder, assault, etc.) is a bug of individualist/post-leftist/egoist anarchism but a feature and has turned me off of it. I'm all for questioning society's morals and rejecting ones that I know aren't right, but I wouldn't want to live in a community with no guiding morality.

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This is good, especially because there's fewer or no disinfection byproducts formed, but the problem is, like other alternatives to chlorination (UV, ozone) it doesn't leave a residual. Water leaving the treatment plant is disinfected, but there's nothing in the water to prevent new growth of pathogenic organisms out in the distribution system.

What's an [anything u/d4rk says]?

Favorites with folders?

Breath of the Wild is sorta. There's a few side missions that require you to cook a meat dish, but it's not absolutely essential to completing the game.

Neat!

I mostly just use my phone for everything, but my only actual computer is a desktop.

I guess where you and I disagree is that I think there's sufficient evidence for behavioral addictions (sex, porn, food, gambling, video games, internet browsing, exercise, etc.) due to the way the brain's reward system works and the modern environment. These addictions can begin as ways to cope with trauma similar to how exogenous chemicals can (note that I didn't say that porn is the same as meth or heroin). Watching too much porn can change the brain, and, for people for whom those changes are unwanted or deleterious, abstaining from porn for a while, or just cutting down, can be beneficial.

I'm not a fundamentalist. I don't think that all porn is bad or unhealthy, that all porn actors and actresses are abused, coerced, or exploited, or that everyone who watches porn has a problem. Sex is good (though not unqualifiedly good). I am, however, suspect of the eroticization of sadomasochism, domination and submission in much porn (and in some of my own tastes and fantasies), and much of porn is informed by and perpetuates patriarchy and rape culture.

I was raised Christian, and even though I'm non-religious now, I still have brainworms from it that I can't, and probably never will, be able to completely kill no matter how much Stirner I read. Fuck me, right?

A Mormon who has two beers on a Friday night and then beats himself up about it for a week cause he betrayed god isn't an alcoholic, no.

When I'm talking about porn addicts, that's not what I'm talking about at all. I'm not talking about someone who watches porn for 10-15 minutes while they rub one out and then go on with their day. I doubt this kind of person is going to feel much guilt or shame about doing so.

Based on the typical r/pornfree self-report, and, again, on my own experiences, I'm talking about people who are watching porn every day, sometimes multiple times a day, for an hour or more at a time, flipping from one video to the next, watching increasingly extreme genres over time, and who can't keep an erection or orgasm during sex and can't not recall porn scenes during sex rather than being present with their partners. I'm talking about people ignoring their responsibilities, hygiene, and health to watch porn.

I'm certainly not saying "porn made me do it". In my case, porn addiction wasn't the cause of my problems at the time but a symptom of other things that were wrong in my life and my marriage, but it was real nonetheless.

I don't know why everyone here seems to have a problem with any kind of criticism of porn consumption.

Right, just as drinking alcohol isn't morally bad but it's addictive and someone could become concerned with his or her own alcohol consumption not because it's bad but because he or she recognizes signs of addiction.

From my own past experiences and reading those of other men, porn use definitely can, and does, become problematic, and it doesn't make sense to say that it does so solely because we chose it and not at least partly because it's addicting.

Is John Cena really anyone here's idol lol?

A munch is a casual meetup for a group of kinksters, usually at a restaurant.

Personally, I just haven't had much to say lately. It has nothing to do with the content or other users here.

Yep!

I do pretty well. I work second shift, and I usually go to bed around 2 or 3 and wake up around 10 or 11. The light in the morning doesn't bother me too much. I think I need a new mattress, though; my current one's really old and sags in the middle.