Yeah, nevermind me constantly being under the threat of homelessness. The real problem is that I jerk off too much.
You already know there is a difference between identifying a cultural problem where we pick out something undermining individual moral fabric, and talking about a socioeconomic issue.
I wouldn't say they can be totally separated at the level of you as the individual. There isn't a domain of life that I don't believe is impacted by frequent porn consumption. That is, if you have a problem in your life, chronic masturbation to pornography is just piling on - in addition to possibly being an influence at the ground level.
Some of the most insidious detriments to the quality of our lives and our effectiveness in the world are really the amplification of (what seem like trivialities) of our habits. That's the nature of virtue and vice: momentum. The small becomes the large.
I know you won't agree, and your situation is more complex. Trauma complicates the picture, but at no point should we ever take the existence of trauma which is not your fault as the express dismissal of the added insult that comes from continuing to shoot yourself in the foot.
Stop fapping then.
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