Thread by @RationalImpact

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There is no greater sexual trigger in the spiritual world than porn. The word alone holds a Nuclear charge!☢️Yet it is rarely discussed from a shame free and balanced view. So strap on...I mean in and lets face the guardian that holds so much of our sexual pain.

2. Porn can be highly subjective. What is acceptable to one is triggering to another. People judge based on what they find "dirty" not based on sovereignty. This is why I do not moralize on it. So long as it's consenting adults I have no right to judge anyone's sexual expression.

3. Having grown up in a very sexually repressive evangelical world, porn has honestly been liberating and healing for me, helping me break shame and even embody my own sexual energy. I even see it as liberating for women, since I seen their very draconian, holiness "moral" codes.

4. Though oddly these days "woke" feminism seems to be the new puritans, seeing porn as nothing but objectification and sexism. I disagree, I believe this comes from a wounded, dark feminine reactionary response, that has unworked pain, shame and fear around the divine masculine.

5. Than we have a lot of shame around porn pushed by the so called "alpha" male communities, that often overlap anti-porn beliefs with no fap practices, that say it's dangerous, weak or wrong to self pleasure with or even without porn.

6. Finally, we have the religious/ spiritual world in general that still takes a shame, fear and judgmental approach to porn, seeing it as to lustful, animalistic or even demonic. Worse of all, these worlds treat porn users as though they are horrible monsters or sexual deviants.

7. This is simply not true and is a gross over generalization and condemnation based on what I believe to be internalized sexual self harm, as people project their own shame onto others. This only creates an atmosphere of fear and shame preventing any real and sincere discussion.

8. It also leads to many newly awakening people looking for spiritual answers on sexuality to feel as though they are broken or some evil person, leading many to over react and repress their sexual energy through no fap and living in constant fear of sexual demons and so on.

9. It is this very over reaction and repression from shame, judgement and fear mongering that can put a perfectly normal and good hearted person into a crippling state of fear, that than may actually attract sexual demons to their fear vibration. Perhaps this is even the point!?

10. I sincerely believe there is false light "sexual spirituality" out there meant to essentially target peoples sexual shame, so it may be weaponized against them. And that even practices like no fap are primarily used to lead people into disembodying their sexual energy!

11. I'm not even anti-no fap, I don't agree with it, but if it works for someone than great! But the way it is pushed through hijacking men's masculine insecurities and bullying other men for being "soy boys" for self pleasuring or using porn only feeds into our collective shame.

12. And for anyone who may be struggling with this very shame around things like masturbation and porn, let me tell you right now that so long as you are using consenting adult content you have done no harm and you need not feel any shame, and never let anyone tell you otherwise!

13. Congratulations! You're a Human being with natural sexual desire, your not going to waste away, summon Cthulhu, or magically change into a sexual deviant just because you pull up the boob tube. This goes for man and women, yes women use it too, and there's no shame in that!

14. The important thing is that, like with anything else, you are not using porn to fill a void in your heart, just because your bored, or to distract yourself from your own inner work and or outer responsibilities. If you are worried you are using it to much just scale back.

15. Scale back until you find what works for your natural balance. Just stay conscious and heart centered. Heart centered? with porn!? Yes! Of course porn is not some soulmate romantic love, but being in an orgasmic vibration of Joy for sexual embodiment is it's own form of love.

16. Besides, if you truly stay conscious, embodied and joyful in your heart you will know if any kind of porn doesn't feel right for you, is attempting to pull you into some dark propaganda or corrupt your own sexual energy. Just breath and don't beat your self up, love yourself!

17. I am not here to say people have to use porn, its a personal choice, but the shame, fear and judgement is honestly more likely to ruin someone than any kind of responsible porn use. And in truth, I bet many porn addictions ultimately come from a spiral of shame not the sex.

18. People get feeling so ashamed that they than seek "redemption". It is this high of redemption that they subconsciously seek to experience again, not so much the sexual release. If instead people would just accept responsible porn use and feel no shame than that would be that.

19. It's like telling people they can never enjoy chips. This only makes people want more chips, and when they do eat them, they cannot truly enjoy them due to the shame and guilt, causing them to eat unconsciously in an attempt to numb those negative programed feelings.

20. I do believe there are problems with unconscious porn use and self pleasure. But once again the fault is on the shame and general lack of self control. I feel many likely use porn to quickly because the shame makes them feel guilty, thus it's in and out like a fighter jet!

21. This just leaves people feeling unsatisfied, because they only ever spark their sexual energy, never fully charging it while in use, as their heavy shame works to cock block their sexual charge. In other words, give yourself time to build pleasure for a bigger release!😮

22. I could go on thread after thread on just the elements of shame alone, and how shame destroys our sexual fire rather we use sexual content or not. And it is true that porn is far from perfect itself in this area, such as shame based advertisements for dick pills and what not.

23. Though admittingly there is add block, but anyway, you get the point. Our current systems of porn are far from ideal, yet we don't get to any better love and spiritually infused systems by shaming our current one into some dark alley way. In fact that will only make it worse!

24. Regardless of opinions on porn, I believe one thing we all must come to agreement on is that the shame, fear and judgement has got to stop! There is no genuine love, spirit, or grounding from this reactionary approach. Nor does trying to "save" people work.

25. These methods have kept the biggest sexual part of our society in the shadows of shame and ignorance, only imbuing the collective with more sexual pain. Enough with the self righteous judgements. Instead we need a shame free, loving and healing community. Don't shame, Love!🧡

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