"Porn is the culprit?"

"Porn is the culprit?"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

May kakilala ba kayong mahilig manood ng porn? Ayon sa isang psychiatrist, ang hilig sa panonood ng malalaswang video ay maituturing daw na personality disorder.

So in this video that has been spreading around people are trying to relate pornography to violence and drug use.This is a short video that is a little bit click baity since it features an opinion of one Psychiatrist and does not really cite any studies about the correlation of the effects of porn and its direct relation to the rise of crime.

Watching porn can be considered a mental disease , oddly enough the psychiatrist in the video forgot to even mention that.And since it is not considered a disease until now people would be hard pressed to come up with criterion to say that it is a disease. Unless people's porn consumption and crime activities are monitored. I cannot erase the fact that a lot of serial killers or those who have committed other heinous acts are often caught with a cache load of pornographic material in their private spaces. One can argue though that even with or without these videos a persons propensity for violence or commit crime is directly proportional.In a way that is like saying that anyone who watches Pacman in action on the ring will want to be like the Pacman or if someone saw a video eating cheese filled foods that they would go out and consume these cheese filled foods. There seems to be a disconnect in this.

Watching Pornography is something that millions of people do on a daily basis and if you would say that these people are all serial killers or have a high propensity for violence then the world surely is an unsafe place. I would think not. While it is not uncommon for porn consumers to ask significant others to try out acts depicted in the same videos that is really their business. A lot of us have this perception that we have rapists among us at every corner. Porn and the associated masturbation or sexual release of energy need not be bad. This takes advantage of your brains center for rewards. Yes there are a vast majority of people who turn to these kinds of videos because they do not have partners to do it with and even those who partners watch porn for different reasons. May it be to spice things up or reward themselves. Masturbation and sexual pleasure are not evil things. These things make you happy. After you finish you don't really go..."Hmmmm why don't I just go out and murder people or do drugs?" A vast majority will sleep it off or eat food or rest. Unless there are other things that are wrong with you of course. 

Sadly though the weird correlation is something that people who clicked this video will believe. While consuming porn is frowned upon in Philippine society there are benefits to it that are proven by science. Will too much of it be bad? Yes. Anything that is too much is always bad. If porn addiction already hinders you in functioning in society then yes that is something that you should see a doctor for but a vast majority of porn watchers are highly functioning members of society. You might be surprised at some who watch it but that is only because we live in a country where we assume that things are bad before we even get the chance to really understand it.

In conclusion , there is no direct correlation with porn consumption and violence and drug use. People may be more lonely and depressed nowadays as the Psychiatrist said here and that might increase porn watching but that doesn't mean that you would consider hitting hard drugs or go on a raping spree. Simply absurd.

Here is the link to the original video if you want to check it out for yourself:

https://www.facebook.com/gmanews/videos/10156665373046977/