Does porn make you stupid?

[Thatguy]

So, since this is the gay guys with brains forum - do you think that watching too much porn can affect you IQ?

This is a the "pre-amble" to some gay porn from the 80? - nothing too shocking - but probably still a little unsafe for work NSFW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56Hs6KHkB3Q

[caloanwalker]

Nah, I don't think it does... What could make you stupid would be wasting ALL your spare time watching porn or not doing things you're supposed to do just to watch more and more porn, that could be addicting and as you'd stop reading books or doing something else that stimulates your brain, then you'd become more and more stupid indeed. But watching it moderately is something else entirely different.

[ecclipse83]

How would watching such a movie lower your IQ? it can't ...

Alls Good in Moderation, 80's pornographic material is slightly amusing though!

[caloanwalker]

Yeah, it's slightly funny. Although compared with porn movies from about 3 years ago (that's when I stopped watching them), the 80's porn has way superior acting somehow!

[duplicitous]

Yeah, 80'ss porn had excitement in the build up. These days it is about a minute of "story line" then 29 minutes of hardcore ass bangin.

80's porn allowed you to use your brain to insert yourself into the story line, so to speak, creating a personal fantasy. The excitement was individual depending on the character you most identified with.

Did I make sense?

[caloanwalker]

Yeah, 80'ss porn had excitement in the build up. These days it is about a minute of "story line" then 29 minutes of hardcore ass bangin.

80's porn allowed you to use your brain to insert yourself into the story line, so to speak, creating a personal fantasy. The excitement was individual depending on the character you most identified with.

Did I make sense?

Yeah, I know what you mean, duplicitous, and I agree with it. Storylines were what made it actually interesting somehow, no matter how farfatched. And nowadays it's just like "Hey, I came to fix your pipes..." "Great, strip your clothes off and let me see your tools in action". And that's it.

That's why porn became kind of boring to me after a while, I felt like I had seen it all, you know?

[duplicitous]

Sure do

*sigh*

[caloanwalker]

And as I said before, the guys from the 80's were way better actors! eheHhehe! LOL You could believe they were naive to a point.

[weathervain]

I think it depends on how you approach viewing porn, personally I like to watch old skool stuff with Jon King and Lee Ryder, and even sometimes Traci Lords from an artistic and filmic level.
But as far as porn goes yeah, visual doesn't do much for your mental libido as far as I'm concerned, I'd much rather go for Anne Rice's sleeping Beauty Chronicles

[waterrat]

well I mean...how many ways can you poke something into somewhere?! It's all a bit the same really, just watching other ppl innit?

I'm happy to keep watching until I find someone to begin starring in it again :P

[memechose]

...no-one one can become stupid surely-the entropic nature of that is too dense to get even the broadest of 'heads' around...

...as for the effect of porn on the IQ-just don't inhale the storyline

[memechose]

P.S-if porn is detrimental to the intellect, then I have killed numerous brain cells with random encounters over the years....hello chastity in a last-ditch attempt at not getting any dumber....as if being a recovering Catholic wasn't enough

[Asherbella]

Porn actually makes you smarter because the synaptic nerve receptors in the brain on watching erotic stimulus fire much faster than non-visual exposure to sexual 'talk'. Visual imagery of porn is great in speeding up the absorption of information, is great for increasing blood (and oxygen) circulation and has been known to cure headaches, etc.

[Sepiroth]

Only if you spend most of your time on it when you can use your time to do something more productive.

[paulypops]

Porn doesn't affect my IQ but certainly increases the bloodflow to my "other" brain :D

[bentevents]

Yeah, 80'ss porn had excitement in the build up. These days it is about a minute of "story line" then 29 minutes of hardcore ass bangin.

80's porn allowed you to use your brain to insert yourself into the story line, so to speak, creating a personal fantasy. The excitement was individual depending on the character you most identified with.

Did I make sense?
I don't feel like it lowers the IQ level of guys watching it (otherwise Saunas and SOP buildings would have idiots walking around them). However the acting abilities of the people in a Porn movie could be an interesting sideline to the IQ level (they weren't employed for their brains).

[Lazzarus]

Interesting excuse to indulge in some eighties porn (message me, I've got quite the collection) but I think I know where you're cumming from.. actually I think I don't. ;)

Well I can't speak for anyone else of course but I've been looking at porn since I was twelve and still managed to survive adolescence and get myself a PhD... admittedly most male professors were easy to bribe with their cocks in my mouth but I still like to think I've "got it" ;)