Comment on Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data

• Glytch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because porn addiction is a real thing and some people who suffer from it want help.

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  • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As someone who dealt for way too many years with a heroin addiction, I keep reading things like this and wanting to say stuff like ‘porn addiction isn’t a real addiction.’ But TBF I’ve never had a porn addiction and don’t know what it’s like, so I can’t say that. But there are undeniable differences.

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      the similarities are far more numerous than not.

      porn/masturbation addiction targets the pleasure receptors in your brain and excites your brain to release dopamine.

      heroin does the same thing but “louder”.

      you’re not addicted to the drug, you’re addicted to the dopamine rush and feelings.

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      • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m not downvoting you, but this doesn’t explain why you get extreme physical withdrawals from heroin and not from porn.

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    • Glytch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s a reasonable position that doesn’t invalidate the experiences of others [genuine]. There are definitely differences between heroin addiction and porn addiction, but either can be life ruining. Heroin tends to be more dangerous, but that can depend on what kind of porn the person is addicted to, just ask David Carradine.

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have always had a very high sex drive until I went on some medication that actually kills your libido(side-effect).

  At one point I was consuming porn 16-18 hours a day(including sleep). I was going to sleep playing nsfw asmr glucking just to get some restful sleep. I had collected almost 20tb of content. sufficient to say, I had a problem.

  my addiction was so bad that at one point I was listening to audio erotica on my way to and from work. you don’t know shame until you look at the car next to you at a stop, and there’s a disgusted mother staring you down while your car is screaming to “breed me daddy”.

  Not long after I started my meds, I deleted my entire fap cache. if it wasn’t for the meds, I would probably still be doing the same shit. an app like this would have been a nice tool to keep me in check.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is incredibly hard to believe that.

    I had collected almost 20tb of content.

    What were they all in 4K? 20 terabytes of video at 4K is around 7 days of non-stop content. But pretty much all pornography is not high quality stuff so we’re looking at more like 22 weeks of content. Also who has 20 terabytes worth of storage anyway?

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      in erotic audio alone I had close to 2tb, close to 80k files if I can remember. most of it you probably couldn’t even get anymore since the creators removed them from online.

      tens of millions of pictures.

      hundreds of thousands of clips/cam rips.

      and probably a couple thousand HD videos.

      at one time I had software that would watch cams of my favorite models that would fire up a browser and screen record their streams.

      I had it spread out across a raid array.

      honestly I probably could have started my own porn site if it weren’t for all those pesky copyright laws. I did write a frontend too just to make browsing it easier. it had features like slideshows+audio mixing so I could have images of audio content with visual feedback. my favorite was creators that would post both audio and images. something about seeing the person I’m hearing made it way more intimate.

      I also had a collage mode for clips and video content. I would pre-select videos/clips and have them automatically fill out the entire page to maximize playing space. from there I could change the volume and size on each video. I wanted to make it so when a video stopped, another video on the list would play, but I was happy enough with looping them.

      of course everything could be saved as a playlist and viewed later too.

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