The Only Reason To Not Watch Porn

Should not be to pretend you became a stoic hero but to exercise creativity

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As human beings, we all have the gift of imagination. It is both blessing and a curse. It appears as a curse when imagination runs wild into frightening thoughts leading to various anxieties. But it can also be channeled into imaginations that could ease us and even heal us.

What could be more apt to exercise creative imagination skills than masturbation? It does not have to be done by lazily watching someone having sex on porn videos. One could even consider it as a sacred creative ritual. Just make sure that the ritual does not take up the whole day.

It does not have to be a mere frustration release. You can imagine being really vulnerable with a girl or boy of your dreams. Exposing your deep emotional pains and shadows to him/her, and imagine them totally accepting and holding the space for you to heal. Do not just waste away this gift of creative imagination. A human being is the only creature who can masturbate without having to depend on the mercy of reality. He/she can simply create reality at their will in imagination.

And who knows, as Carl Jung had said about the capacity for the imagination for evil is important and liberating, likewise sexual imagination might help us to confront the greed, possessiveness, and such evil aspects within us and to be from it through responsible creative channeling, and all by oneself :). It is for one to experiment for himself.

A male monkey cannot masturbate in isolation without the stimulus of a female monkey anywhere in the vicinity. But for a human monkey, wait, human being, it is possible provided he can exercise his imagination responsibly and creatively.

Viktor Frankl said that while he was suffering hopelessly in the concentration camp, being subjected to the insults from the officers there, he could escape it by imagining as if he is being with his wife and making love with her that nothing else mattered.

Let tears come; let the sadness come; let it all be transformed in the presence of mutual support and trust even if it is only as an exercise in imagination. Give yourself what you need and feel how it is to receive it (at least in your…