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Is Pornography Cheating?

4,596 545 June 20, 2007 at 02:34 PM in Chat
So I'm listening to my local radio station and an interesting point has been brought up by the hosts when a listener has called in. The point is that his girlfriend has really grilled him thoroughly about finding pornography on his computer.

One host says that pornography is cheating while the other feels that it is not cheating. The caller views this as not cheating. My personal opinion is that it is not cheating as long as there is no physical contact.

This same question can be posed in the form of whether an "online" relationship is considered "real" or not. However, that is for a much different topic and a much different thread.

So the question I pose to you: Is Pornography Cheating?
Is Pornography Cheating?
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06-21-2007 at 12:31 PM.
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06-21-2007 at 12:33 PM.
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Men are very capable of "making love". But don't think for a second that it happens every time. laugh out loud

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Intimacy does not = only "making love" in my mind.

Intimacy means that you can share all your fantasies, etc. with the other person without fear of humiliation.... but it also means that you will turn to that person for those fantasies, etc. being fulfilled. Not to porn.

There is no intimacy when someone is alone. None. Sex was made so relationships can be solidified, in my opinion. Just because men like it more often or whatever doesn't mean that it's against relationship-building. It's a puzzle that the husband and wife work on together... no one said life was easy... well, sex isn't either.

The best gift a person can give their wife/husband is 100% pure, unadulterated, only-for-you, faithful, passionate sex.

Porn just robs that... it doesn't build intimacy at all.
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06-21-2007 at 12:37 PM.
06-21-2007 at 12:37 PM.
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06-21-2007 at 12:50 PM.
06-21-2007 at 12:50 PM.
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LMAO I am telling you... that wasn't cheating. I'm just that good. Evil
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Mavtech
06-21-2007 at 12:57 PM.
06-21-2007 at 12:57 PM.
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Maybe she doesn't act like she cares, but I bet she'd be thrilled if you told her you looked away. And the woman who bent over in front of you probably wouldn't know either way, but I'm sure she would appreciate a respectful gesture like that if she did know. Just because something's sitting right in front of you doesn't mean you have the take the opportunity.
No, my wife would say "Yeah, whatever. You know you looked." She knows I am a man and she doesn't expect me to change my natural biological behavior. She is secure in our relationship and she knows she has nothing to worry about. Same goes for me.
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Mavtech
06-21-2007 at 01:09 PM.
06-21-2007 at 01:09 PM.
Quote from PassionateGray :
Intimacy does not = only "making love" in my mind.

Intimacy means that you can share all your fantasies, etc. with the other person without fear of humiliation.... but it also means that you will turn to that person for those fantasies, etc. being fulfilled. Not to porn.

There is no intimacy when someone is alone. None. Sex was made so relationships can be solidified, in my opinion. Just because men like it more often or whatever doesn't mean that it's against relationship-building. It's a puzzle that the husband and wife work on together... no one said life was easy... well, sex isn't either.

The best gift a person can give their wife/husband is 100% pure, unadulterated, only-for-you, faithful, passionate sex.

Porn just robs that... it doesn't build intimacy at all.
No one ever intended it to build intimacy. I guess it all depends on the people involved. I know my wife isn't thrilled if I watch porn. But, she sure wouldn't feel betrayed by it. There was never an agreement when we got together that I wouldn't watch porn. If she had tried to put that silly limitation on me back then, I can honestly say that there is a chance we would not be married today. Not because I wouldn't give up porn (I rarely view it now), but because it's a sign of either an insecure person or a controlling person. Both of which I already had enough of in my life.

When doing it together, again, it CAN build intimacy....indirectly. Many therapists suggest couples watch porn together to get that spark back. In turn, that can bring back the intimacy you speak of (or enhance it).
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06-21-2007 at 01:22 PM.
06-21-2007 at 01:22 PM.
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No one ever intended it to build intimacy. I guess it all depends on the people involved. I know my wife isn't thrilled if I watch porn. But, she sure wouldn't feel betrayed by it. There was never an agreement when we got together that I wouldn't watch porn. If she had tried to put that silly limitation on me back then, I can honestly say that there is a chance we would not be married today. Not because I wouldn't give up porn (I rarely view it now), but because it's a sign of either an insecure person or a controlling person. Both of which I already had enough of in my life.

When doing it together, again, it CAN build intimacy....indirectly. Many therapists suggest couples watch porn together to get that spark back. In turn, that can bring back the intimacy you speak of (or enhance it).

so can "BOB"
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06-21-2007 at 01:23 PM.
06-21-2007 at 01:23 PM.
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so can "BOB"
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06-21-2007 at 01:24 PM.
06-21-2007 at 01:24 PM.
Quote from Mavtech :
No, my wife would say "Yeah, whatever. You know you looked." She knows I am a man and she doesn't expect me to change my natural biological behavior. She is secure in our relationship and she knows she has nothing to worry about. Same goes for me.
Ok, because you're so insistent on this being "natural behavior", I'm just curious...

Do you see anything wrong with a guy driving to the local high school with a video camera, and taping the cheerleader practice from the parking lot? I mean, it's only natural for a guy to get turned on by 16 year old girls in tight clothes, he should be able fire one off right there in his car, shouldn't he?
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06-21-2007 at 01:28 PM.
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06-21-2007 at 01:28 PM.
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Quote from TheyCallMeGeorg :
Ok, because you're so insistent on this being "natural behavior", I'm just curious...

Do you see anything wrong with a guy driving to the local high school with a video camera, and taping the cheerleader practice from the parking lot? I mean, it's only natural for a guy to get turned on by 16 year old girls in tight clothes, he should be able fire one off right there in his car, shouldn't he?
It's all about the age.

now was this in KY that your above senerio takes place?? cause then i't be legal...
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06-21-2007 at 01:28 PM.
06-21-2007 at 01:28 PM.
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so can "BOB"
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Mavtech
06-21-2007 at 01:31 PM.
06-21-2007 at 01:31 PM.
Quote from TheyCallMeGeorg :
Ok, because you're so insistent on this being "natural behavior", I'm just curious...

Do you see anything wrong with a guy driving to the local high school with a video camera, and taping the cheerleader practice from the parking lot? I mean, it's only natural for a guy to get turned on by 16 year old girls in tight clothes, he should be able fire one off right there in his car, shouldn't he?
Absolutely not. He is performing an intrusive act on their privacy. Furthermore, acting on the lust for a 16 year old is by no means natural or accepted. There is no way you can compare that to looking down a woman's shirt when she bends down in front of you or saying to yourself that another woman is hot. In your example, the man is pursuing it. I never said that pursuing anything was natural. I just said it was natural for a man to be attracted to other women and to check them out.....not seek them out and video tape them.

I'm pretty sure a grown man going onto school property and snapping one off is illegal.
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06-21-2007 at 01:38 PM.
06-21-2007 at 01:38 PM.
Quote from TheyCallMeGeorg :
Do you see anything wrong with a guy driving to the local high school with a video camera, and taping the cheerleader practice from the parking lot? I mean, it's only natural for a guy to get turned on by 16 year old girls in tight clothes, he should be able fire one off right there in his car, shouldn't he?
Aside form the age factor... Isn't that stalking?
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06-21-2007 at 01:57 PM.
06-21-2007 at 01:57 PM.
I lust after John Stamos, Ewan McGregor and a number of others actors. My husband knows this and moreso makes fun of me when we go see a movie/tv show with one of them in it. "Oooh..I know why you like this..:winkwink:"

I think it's kind of like the whole porn thing. There's 0% chance I could ever have these guys just like there's usually a 0% chance the guy could ever have the girl he watches in the porn video. It's pretty harmless.

Now if either of us started fantasizing about other people we know in real life and might Actually have a chance with...then I don't think I'd call that "cheating" but that's not something I would take lightly either.
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