And thank you for your well-written and interesting comment.

You make a good overall point, although I’d say this.

The suffering on the backend is directly proportional to the the pleasure experienced on the front-end. Therefore, if you have always had a habit of occasionally consuming erotica, you would have experienced such a minor level of suffering on the backend that it was unnoticeable (at least that’s what I’d argue).

The law of pleasure likely still held, but the scale of suffering of pleasure and suffering was too small to be noticed. Am I making sense?

You can “get away with” a small amount of artificial pleasure and only experience a minuscule amount of suffering as a consequence. (At the bare minimum, a loss of time that could have been used to create a more pleasurable life overall).

Of course, you are also rolling the dice on a pathway to a potential addiction in the future.

As for porn addiction, I know that it’s scientifically unproven, but there is countless anecdotal experience now, particularly with young men and boys.

The porn that you grew up with and the high-speed digital porn we have now are so far apart that they should have different names entirely. Porn has gotten more and more stimulating and it can be viewed immediately at any moment of the day with a smartphone. Boys are often exposed to porn below the age of 10 (seriously).

It’s one thing to look at babes on a magazine page, it’s another to watch countless hours of every obscure and stimulating sexual fetish under the sun.

This is my response to your very reasonable points.