But I'm wondering if the experts are over egging it a bit. Obviously everyone's different but I reckon the bad effects wear off quite quickly in most people.

I mean if you have a long porn watching session you'll get a kind of porn hangover. I've noticed this myself. But it wears off quickly as long as your not doing it on a daily basis.

When you see a hot chick in the street that's also an image hitting your retina and causing the release and arousal to trigger. The fact it's on a screen I don't think should be that much different.

What makes the difference is the easy availability of porn now compared to years ago where you maybe got a look at your older brothers scud mags (in my case) or a shot of some boobs on a late TV movie.

But I think as long as you're not watching it every day for a long time it shouldn't have a lasting effect.

It's just my personal view.

From my understanding Phil got it slightly wrong. The dopamine levels being affected is to do with desensitisation. You're watching three 10s get ATM'd by seven 9 inchers in good lighting, close ups and exaggerated reactions and sounds. This releases an 'unnatural' amount of dopamine into you're system. When it comes to being with your 6/10 gf, might have bad breath, the lights are off so you cant even get a good look and her vagina is a tenth of the grip of your vice-like grip, your brain is going 'is that all you got? Wheres amputees getting DVDA'd mate?'. Your brain quite literally barely recognises it as arousing or sexual.

Obviously there are a myriad of reasons and Phil did say something similar but pretty sure the above is the main reason for anti-porn movement (non religious).

Phils point also branches out into the idea of when men find porn and masturbation more satisfying than sex for whatever reason (fulfilled fantasies, habit forming, self esteem).

The effect of porn is to make you want to have more real life sex, not to want to look at more porn. it is like looking at a catalogue of fancy goods, it makes you want those fancy goods, not to keep looking at them on a page.

How do you even get access to porn, you cant just sit there in the Apple Store and start jerking off

Stonecastle

Once you get laid without paying for it or watch some porn in your own home, come back and play with the bigger boys

I have wondered about this.
I also think I have a bit of a mental block around commitment- I find it hard to deal with the fact that a girl may be the last.
But then the notion that you suddenly hit a certain qouta and then everything is fine is ludicrous.
I have wondered sometimes if I am somehow sabotaging some relationships purely because I still want to explore some more.
I may be naive but was hoping that some more exploration, variety and numbers would get that out of the system, so to speak, but maybe its just programmed in.
How do you suppress the urge?
Or is the clue that I just haven't met the right one yet?

Could be. I read somewhere that being in lurve and all that does cause chemical changes that reduces attraction to other females. I expect you'll know when you don't want to explore anymore you've found the right one. But obviously the best way to find her is to explore.

I don't think it's a quota thing, you could meet her tomorrow.

Fucking the same bird is boring, like seriously fucking the same bird for the rest of your life
i shudder....

maybe im fucked up but, sluts lets fuck sluts
maybe meet half way fuck sluts with our birds watching and joining in?

back to your post
porn ok maybe some level of mental desentisization - but cumming released shit loads of dopamine somthing like that- so your brina hits a low afterwards and makes you feel shit and unmotivated
long long ago when we did the month without wanking i stuck to it and i was like omg ive got loads of mental power todo stuff-- sexual transfiguration i beleive is the term.

so phil youve got a hot bird do you let her go ontop?- but still, do you yearn for some other slut or bird, do you think somtimes while you are fucking her about somone else?
i do
whats the answer?
i dont know but its fucked whatever it is?

after a two weeks, your energy levels sore up. If you have been on a dry spell or youre anxious to talk to the fittest birds in the club (the real stunners), after a fortnight of no fap youll feel like you can do it.

you feel happier, and then youre like wtf how did i ever like this shit. In a way it is pretty weird
its like, oh im not getting any at this present moment and im horny. why dont I watch some other guy get with this pretty girl in a video. Let me live my sexuality through him (in her haha)
thats my experience on no fap

Oh and ps. google pornstars without makeup. Some of the most beautiful girls on screen look like crack whores off the couch

That would be my take on the effects too. Though I'd say it gives you more drive than energy. However, energy would increase since your not burning off calories with your vise grip wrist action.