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i've gone a few days without touching myself now; not for any particular moral reason, but just because i've been kind of depressed, and my libido naturally plummets during bouts of depression. part of the reason why i've been depressed is admittedly kind of pathetic, it's just because two people i watch on the internet said "porn/sex is bad" and referenced things like porn addiction and human trafficking in those statements (which i think are very reasonable opinions to have, to clarify) but at the same time, it just kind of made me feel horrible about myself for no particular reason, since i've never really understood why masturbation, porn, or really just sexuality in general has such a horrible stigma around it, at least where i live. i don't get why one person said "sex is a shameful act", when to me it's just the act of reproduction, which happens to feel good to most people. i don't get why people talk about porn and masturbation in the same vein as being addicted to hard drugs, since to my knowledge, masturbation doesn't ruin your body, or at least, the effects definitely aren't anywhere near as bad as something like heroin. when i was younger, given how horrible adults made things like sex seem, when i first started touching myself, i expected to feel gross or something, but no. i look at myself in the mirror and i see the same person i've always been. i don't think whether or not i touch myself or watch porn has any real notable effect on how i look or act. i can definitely say that the way i see women and girls hasn't changed at all. i can definitely admit that it is a vice; i probably wouldn't have to touch myself if i had a girlfriend, but most of the hobbies i have are vices, like playing games and watching anime, i don't see that as an inherently bad thing in moderation. i feel like not enough people make the distinction between the physical act of masturbation and "watching" porn, either; does it make a difference if you do one without doing the other? if you ban porn, does that suddenly make masturbating with your imagination ok? what if someone just watched porn or looked at pornographic images without doing anything else? some people just find the girls cute. what even is "porn", anyway? the definition i got just now when i looked it up was "Sexually explicit writing, images, video, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal." does this apply to niche fetishes like feet or armpits? do swimsuit catalogs count as pornography? i know people have their own moral reasons as to why they view this stuff as horrible, which i totally think is fair. i don't think people should be forced to like the same things as me. but also, i think it's extreme to immediately go from "this guy watches porn in his spare time" to "this guy is a sick, perverted addict who objectifies women, is ok with child sex trafficking, and would rape a woman in the streets if he could". human trafficking is bad, i'm not trying to downplay that, but realistically, i doubt very many 3dpd pornstars, at least where i am, are being physically forced into that. i doubt the thousands of girls on onlyfans are doing that because they're being forced into it. the one guy watching porn all by himself at 2am isn't personally contributing to human trafficking. this is ignoring pornographic art, like ero-doujin and the like, which for some reason draws a much harsher response from a lot of people, which is just astronomically stupid to me. i've seen so many people on the internet say things like "what goes on in the heads of people like must be sick" and "everyone who makes/likes that stuff should be institutionalized". from the way people talk about loli hentai, you'd think that they aren't talking about drawings made by nerds in their spare time because they were bored and had a chatacter design they thought looked cute. i just wanted to vent. am i a bad person for liking porn? touching myself just feels good. i happen to find some 3dpd cute. i really like a lot of ero-doujin artists.