All men are addicted to "porn" 100 percent of the time. I see this as an invalid argument.
Here is why: if you take porn away, guys will just fantasize about women on magazine covers. Take that away and guys will fantasize about hot women they see IRL. Isolate a man and he'll create imaginary women to fantasize about or remember someone from his past.
Men are biologically built to see women as sexual. Porn makes it convenient, but without porn, anything can become "porn" in a man's brain. This is what upsets nuns and feminists the most: that men are wired to conceive women as sexual beings, not androgynous worker-bee drones.
Does porn take away some men's desire to meet women? Sure.
But I'm old enough to remember before porn was ubiquitous and those same guys (I knew them in college) would stay in their dorm rooms weekends and jerk off to Cosmo or Glamour or other mags they got secondhand on campus. (Our campus didn't sell Playboy so this was the best they could do.)
Since Slate posited back in 2006 that
online porn "prevents rape" (their words), maybe it's best for society that such men have an outlet and stay away from real women, where they'll ruin lives -- not to mention ruin it for the rest of us.
So...stop looking at Internet porn. But if you feel the need to relieve yourself, you still gotta think about something. Then that's, technically, pornographic, isn't it?
I'll throw out a qu here: let's say I swear off all porn. But I re-watch Bristol Palin's sexy turn on "Dancing With the Stars" on YouTube. Then I fantasize about that night after night. Was that "porn?" And am I "addicted" to this sort of thing, or just "addicted" to sexuality itself, which is part of our biological makeup?